happy warrior

Yet Brock’s winning formula included a youthful optimism and projected a happy warrior affect that soothed fears the GOP’s Southern success in the 1960s fed on and fueled painful racial divisions in the South.

They expect him to recalibrate, slightly, to be more happy warrior than culture warrior.

Christie, an archetypal tough guy happy warrior, at first dismissed accusations that the traffic jam was politically motivated.

By contrast, while Santorum does not lack for passion, he often comes across as less a happy warrior than a dismayed one.

Now the Man from Vermont is uncomplainingly soldiering onward in the health-insurance-reform battle—a happy warrior for Obamacare.

The Happy Warrior of Wordsworth gives us probably a very true idea of the mediæval conception of the perfect knight.

He died the death of the happy warrior, fighting as our Anglo-Saxon forefathers fought, in the midst of his kinsmen and friends.

The day had come when the Dictator was to dine with that 'happy warrior,' the Soldier of Fortune.

Mr. Molton was singing "The Happy Warrior," to celebrate the finish of the shearing.

The whole theory is most nobly summed up in the grand lines already noticed on the character of the Happy Warrior.