The phrase "a mood of joy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an atmosphere or emotional state characterized by happiness or delight.
Example: "The party was filled with a mood of joy as friends and family gathered to celebrate the special occasion."
Alternatives: "an atmosphere of happiness" or "a feeling of delight."
Sarkozy was so keen to change public opinion on this that earlier this summer, he reportedly told French generals – to their stupefaction – that he wanted a victory in Libya before 14 July, hoping to capitalise on a mood of joy for Bastille day.
It is unique, however, in aligning this realism and these requirements with the passion of generosity and a mood of joy.
Victory would have sent Brentford into the second tier of English football and a mood of joy, hope and anticipation reverberated around Griffin Park when Martin Rowlands scored just after the interval.
"I remember a mood of joy on the Maidan and most of the faces were students and the young," Gud remarks.
"When we are children," she writes, "listening to music usually evokes a mood of awe, wonder, joy, celebration and love that we openly share with our parents and loved ones.
Beauvoir identifies each of these intentionalities with a mood: the first with the mood of joy, the second with the dual moods of hope and domination.
That mood of joy has been replaced by an atmosphere that the Tunisian newspaper La Presse has described as "insurrectional".
But when I enter the large conference room, my mood of joy immediately vaporises.
For R Alexander Bentley and Michael J O'Brien, the theretofore mentioned professors, the n-gram tool has facilitated a study, just published, of the frequency of usage of what they call mood words – anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness and surprise, though not, I am saddened and surprised to note, "database", which might not be a mood word in itself but induces a mood of anger and disgust in me.
"A mood of disgust and disappointment".
