She is attended to by her harassed daughter, Carol (Olivia Colman), but chiefly worries about when and whether to throw away suits belonging to her late husband Denis, who appears to her when she is alone, a cheerful dream-ghost played by Broadbent, Philip to her Elizabeth, telling her to come off it and generally buck up.
On the morning it opened, commuters on the Jubilee Line found that the ads above their seats had been razored out and replaced with cheerful alternatives dreamed up by Banksy, probably the world's best-known living British artist – and a figure whose value, pound for pound, is impossible to assess.
At work, Marjorie wore her hair in a high, cheerful ponytail like "I Dream of Jeannie".
There were country covers (Sweet Mental Revenge), Byrds pastiches that were perfect for 1965 (Ivory Tower), rave-ups (I Had a Dream) and cheerful country rockers (Run Dusty Run).
That cheerful confidence – "Living the dream!" he bellows encouragingly at his sodden cast – seems to inspire total belief in those game enough to follow him.
Buenos Aires: I want to sit in a dark, wood 'n' leather bar reading Borges and sipping Viña Amalia Malbec Reservado, spasmodically dreaming of cheerful chiquitas and brooding, vintage racing drivers.
What drew a composer whose own belief was described as "cheerful agnosticism" to John Bunyan's dream-allegory of a soul in search of salvation?
The pickers live desperate lives, and yet they're articulate, intelligent, often cheerful and they have hopes and dreams much like the rest of us.
He soon moves on to more passionate and even erotic dreams, such as meeting the cheerful young Edo women on Rubicon III, the matriarch Beata (Karen Montgomery) on Angel One, or the computer-generated holodeck woman Minuet (Carolyn McCormick).
Elle is stubbornly cheerful and determined to go for her dreams.
Similarly, the cheerful Scherzo from Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream" moves in a somewhat darker, thornier corner of the forest than where Mendelssohn left it.
