Sentence examples for cheerful effect from inspiring English sources

A joyful atmosphere would be achieved, he said, by "an entrance hall flooded with light, through a wall of glass bricks, clean surfaces and bright colours to produce a cheerful effect".

The contrast between Gillian Webster's piercingly pensive soprano and Jeremy Ovenden's half-spoken, cheerful tenor effect a moving reconciliation in the sublime duet As Steals The Morn Upon the Night.

The film attempts nothing more than to while away the time with cheerful asides and variable special-effects work, but it's so lacking in drama or character development that the film manages to wear out its welcome despite the economical (for a summer blockbuster) ninety-minute running time.

Bonus Event: A cheerful thought.

"I did that for 15 months and became clinically depressed … I think it was the effect of having to be so cheerful".

The long-term effect of this effort is less cheerful: many government investment-induced projects have become "rotten tail projects" and are still unfinished.

By deciding to approach the issue of violence, particularly peer violence, in a cheerful and somehow playful way, the author has achieved an exceptionally strong effect.

Or how about William Kristol, noteworthy for nothing more than his cheerful warmongering (a war in Iraq "could have terrifically good effects throughout the Middle East". — Sept. 18, 2002)?

But with Isaac Mizrahi's white-and-green costumes contributing to the effect in constantly changing patterns, this ballet works as a cheerful closing piece.

The effect is both charming and disconcerting, with a hovering sense of the imminent loss of innocence underlining the cheerful engagements onstage.

The effect is disconcerting: The couples are trying to work out messy and even insurmountable problems in a trendy-looking, cheerful space.