Mr. Akin's cheerful, feel-good campaign with religious overtones could help him with his voter base, but may cost him among those who are spoiling for a brass-knuckle fight against an incumbent known for pushing back.
There are brief and masterly elucidations of fine distinctions in meaning, such as that between "cheerful" and "cheery" ("The cheerful feels & perhaps shows contentment, the cheery shows & probably feels it").
And another reason to be cheerful: we feel we are taboo-breakers here, chatting about death.
And any film-maker who has made it to the top of their profession, only to find that they're still not very cheerful, must feel that they have something to say on the matter.
In his 2008 book, "Gross National Happiness," Dr. Brooks argues that what's crucial to well-being is not how cheerful you feel, not how much money you make, but rather the meaning you find in life and your sense of "earned success" — the belief that you have created value in your life or others' lives.
Cozy, tidy and cheerful, it feels like a 16-foot-wide doll's house.
A leisurely weekend brunch is when the staff's cheerful incompetence feels the most appropriate, and the Highliner offers solid Bloody Marys, good, thick-cut bacon, and, idiosyncratically, a tasty farro salad spiked with crisp bits of cauliflower.
The WHO-5 consisted of five positively worded items including "I have felt cheerful and in good spirits"; "I have felt calm and relaxed"; "I have felt active and vigorous"; "I woke up feeling fresh and rested"; and "My daily life has been filled with things that interest me".
The item 6 ("I feel cheerful") when translated into Japanese connotes the shift of the mood from its cheerful comfortable state.
19 It is calculated from responses to five items: (1) I have felt cheerful and in good spirits; (2) I have felt calm and relaxed; (3) I have felt active and vigorous; (4) I woke up feeling fresh and rested and (5) my daily life has been filled with things that interest me.
