Sentences with phrase «how unhappy families»

It's the bit about happy families being all alike in their yaddayadda - blabla and how unhappy families are all unhappy in their unique blablabla.

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Based on his 2008 Pulitzer Prize - winning work of the same name, August: Osage County takes Tolstoy's oft - quoted opening line of Anna Karenina — «each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way» — as its primary raison d'être and spends a vitriolic two hours (one hour less than the play) showing us just how unhappy its central characters — members of the Oklahoma Weston clan — can be.

Tracy Letts, who adapted his Pulitzer Prize — winning play for the screen, never got Tolstoy's memo about how «each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,» and as a result we're treated to a veritable banquet of American - theater tropes sensationalizing intergenerational dysfunction: banshee - like women and taciturn men in the autumn of their years, and progeny who either suffer for their familial devotion or lose their souls to escape the nuthouse.

With fewer options, women unhappy at work will either have to tolerate it or hope that their firms adopt the report's recommendations on how to create more family - friendly environments.

Some of these tools will do things like at the close of a file, it'll fire off, you know, on a scale of one to 10, how likely are you to recommend us to a friend or family member, eights, nines and 10s get directed to some kind of review profile, one, two and threes might send an email back to you saying, «Hey, this is an unhappy client, I need to reach out to them and understand more about why they're unhappy.»

At the same time, these personal interviews provide important clues for family scholars, policy makers, journalists, counselors, and clergy about how and why unhappy marriages that do improve first avoid divorce and eventually get happier.

He is telling his family and friends how he has been unhappy for years and should have left years ago, but I can not remember him ever saying that to me.

«The people who have stable, happy relationships are much gentler with one another than people who have unhappy relationships or break up,» says Gottman, who's known for his ability to predict which newlyweds will divorce with more than 90 percent accuracy by observing how they communicate (Journal of Family Psychology, 1992).

Researchers analyzed a data set of American families stretching from 1987 to 2003 to track how children of divorce and unhappy marriages turned out.