I maintain my cheerful demeanour, though, anxious to chat with you and show I am not the inarticulate buffoon you evidently suppose I am.
Paul Chamberlain is articulate, impossibly cheerful in the face of adversity and heroic – a Briton of the sort you might have thought would be seen no more after Lawrence Oates strode into the Antarctic snowstorm in an effort to save Scott and his other companions.
I want to be cheerful about Bradford, but the truth is that it looked a sadder place than when I stayed there briefly 30 years ago (and it was troubled enough then).
After the melancholy party had stayed there for some time, Monsieur Tournevau remarked: 'This isn't very cheerful, is it?' Unable to lose themselves in carnality and frolics, the men must confront reality, which Maupassant presents as a yawning void filled with monotonous echoes.
9.15am: I don't know about you but I woke up quite cheerful this morning.
Its psychedelic headquarters doubles as a cafe and cantina, a cheap and cheerful bistro, which serves vegetarian during the week with a meat dish on Saturday.
As Joanna Biggs points out in her fabulous just-published oral history of Britain at work, All Day Long: "The nation of shopkeepers has become a nation of disappointed bakers and momentarily cheerful hotdog men.
Coogan, who co-wrote the screenplay and took a producer's role, was greeted with chants of "A-ha!" in a reference to his iconic character Alan Partridge's favourite catchphrase by cheerful members of the Fire Brigades Union.
From one of his hospital visits Marr recalls a woman, eight months pregnant, who had suffered a stroke: "There are people far worse off than me who are so incredibly brave and cheerful.
Osborne was the most cheerful, though even when he is caked in slap he still looks disturbingly spectral.
· Calle Jardines, 6. Open 1pm – 4pm, 8pm – late, closed Mondays A miniscule and effortlessly cheerful bar in the centre of town, just off Via Colon, the tapas here are small but quite literally flamboyant.
