Sentence examples for cheerful activity from inspiring English sources

Lamenting that 'philosophy, even with people of understanding, should be an empty and fantastic name, a thing of no use and no value",[14] he asserted that philosophy should be the most cheerful activity.

When the scientists behind the experiment published their findings, in a guidebook called "Men and Hunger," they advised aid workers to "refrain from arguments" and loud noises, and to make sure to save cheerful activities for rainy days, which might otherwise prove overwhelmingly depressing for the starving civilians in their care.

Running CNBC in the background makes my home office seem not like a solitary prison cell or torture chamber but like a beehive of cheerful, important activity.

The phrase "adult day care center" bothers some people -- they find it infantilizing, or just unappetizing -- but I like the way it explains the idea: Your frail elderly relative can't stay at home alone, so she goes to a bright, cheerful place where activities keep her mind and body active and connect her with others.

The Gorgie district of west Edinburgh is a sinuous urban weave of railway lines and sandstone tenements studded with cheerful nodes of human activity, including Polish delicatessens, cobblers, a city farm, umpteen barbers, a gospel hall and Heart of Midlothian football club.

Here are some cheap, cheerful and entirely Christmassy activities you can do together.

Presiding over the endless activities are the ever cheerful, ever energetic GOs.

The poem plays, consciously or not, on Bishop's famous conclusion to "The Bight": "All the untidy activity continues, / awful but cheerful".

In conclusion, the adapted physical and social activities at the activity center, as delivered by committed and cheerful specialist nurses in dementia care, as well as by volunteers, may have had a positive influence on the informants' health and well-being.

The eccentric, cheerful learn-to-read site is loaded with scattershot activities.

The atmosphere is cheerful, yet the children are studiously taking part in the activity, focusing all their attention on their respective assignments.