Sentence examples for about a festive from inspiring English sources

You've put up the tree, hung garlands and a wreath is hanging majestically on your front door; it definitely looks like Christmas but what about a festive scent?

This time last year we were writing about a festive boost as prices headed below £1 a litre, but now the average has shot up to £1.15.

Haines has hit the facepaints in order to promote Christmas Number One, a festive song about a festive song that becomes popular, then ubiquitous and ultimately destroys the lives of all who come into contact with it.

How do we even begin thinking about a festive time when the death of a loved one may cause us to feel far from joyous?

When casting about for a festive drink to add to the holiday cocktail list at the Oak Room at the Plaza, the restaurant's beverage director, Bruce Yung, backtracked six centuries, to the 1400s, when a drink called a posset — along with other newfangled inventions like the printing press and the muzzle-loaded rifle — was all the rage in Europe.

THIS is how revolutions look at the start: a modest crowd milling in the street, a few slogans bandied about, almost a festive air.

Performers like T-Model Ford and Bobby Rush have played on the plywood stage, housed in a festive space about the size of a living room.

This year, practicing Muslims in New York are breaking their daily Ramadan fast with a festive meal about 8 15 p.m. (the time gets earlier as the month progresses).

RAJENDRA ROY, the new artistic director of the Hamptons International Film Festival, knows it's risky to show a somber movie about post-invasion Iraq on a festive opening night.

Curators tend to place Mr. Höller under the umbrella of "relational aesthetics," which, as defined by the critic Nicolas Bourriaud, is all about transforming the museum into a "festive, collective and participatory" space.

My flight out, filled with conference attendees in a festive mood, was about to take off when an engine shot sparks.