Sentence examples for a cheerfulness that from inspiring English sources

Bianca joined the following year with a cheerfulness that disguised any trace of family tragedy.

There's a marvellous moment in Sarah Frankcom's revival when Alexandra Mathie as the hotel proprietress admits to a hopeless love with a forced cheerfulness that reveals a fractured heart.

It was all delivered with a puzzling cheerfulness that made the movies far more transgressive than if their tone had been serious.

WURLITZER The shop has a preppy, kooky cheerfulness that is a tad manic, but effective enough to make even a vampire like me want to practice my putt to the Swingle Singers.

If news reports are blaring threats of recession and stock market collapse, of fin de siècle extravagance and greed, Harry Cipriani presents a breezy, début de siècle optimism, a benign, enforced cheerfulness that can bloom only in a place that sells a baked-cod appetizer for $38.95.

He was slighter than I expected — about 5-foot-10, with the wiry frame of a wrestler or a distance runner — and a good deal perkier, possessed of a quick-witted cheerfulness that was out of sync with his surroundings.

Engelen greeted me with a half-ironic cheerfulness that struck me as very Dutch.

Well read, gregarious and intensely inquisitive, he has the sort of innate cheerfulness that is widely regarded as a professional liability if not a disqualification for a major career in art.

It is the cheerfulness that lingers here behind the lines, like a happy schoolboy, as world history continues its stolid death march.

They have begun to resemble a real-life version of Richard Scarry's Busy Town, right down to the storybook cheerfulness that comes from decorating every business with motivational messages written in Zingerman's signature typeface and illustrated with quirky cartoons and drawings.

As the reviewer and author both note, the "noxious virus" of fake cheerfulness that is Ehrenreich's subject has its amusing side.