Sentence examples for cheerful figures from inspiring English sources

That number is likely to grow.These are cheerful figures.

The terrible unborn who are to remember us as quaint and cheerful figures in an old daguerrotype are as unthinkable to us as men from Mars.

Compared to the bright, cheerful figures who typically populate the parade, the Macy's staff recognizes that B. Boy, with his moody color scheme and visible scars, is about as close as it can come to pushing the envelope.

There are joyful, inventive and ridiculous pictures — wild and ramshackle contraptions built of brooms and pram wheels — but there are also what Blake terms "some very gloomy ones". A series of vehicles fronted with grotesque faces, called "Vehicles of the Mind," are driven by cheerful figures who seem blissfully unaware that the machines they occupy are suffering an anxiety attack.

Gorbachev cuts a relaxed, even cheerful figure these days, but there are still the occasional twinges of bitterness, particularly when discussing his arch-rival Boris Yeltsin, or when he described the plotters who put him under house arrest in the Crimea during their abortive coup 20 years ago.

In the Eleanor H. Porter novel Pollyanna, the heroine starts out a saintly, determinedly cheerful figure but must relearn the value of a sunny, giving spirit after an accident leaves her unable to walk.

It may not be where you want to end up but it's certainly progress and I suspect many newspapers would be quite cheerful with figures like that".

"What are you going to do here?" asks Arad, a cheerful, Chaplinesque figure.

Now James Sommerin is in charge of the kitchen, a cheerful, determined figure with a rising reputation.

"What are you going to do here?" asks Arad, a cheerful, Chaplinesque figure.

A swingy piano tune cued up, and, for the next twelve minutes, the crowd was transfixed by a cheerful parade of figures uniform only in their imperfection.