Sentence examples for cheerful gathering from inspiring English sources

"I've had so much bloody practice at crying in a bedroom, then having to go out and be cheerful, gathering up the pieces of my heart and putting them in a drawer," she said.

"I've had so much bloody practice at crying in a bedroom, then having to go out and be cheerful, gathering up the pieces of my heart and putting them in a drawer," she told The Telegraph.

"I've had so much bloody practice at crying in a bedroom," Thompson said, adding, "then having to go out and be cheerful, gathering up the pieces of my heart and putting them in a drawer".

Its woodwinds played with a seductive lilt, and its brasses — notably in the "Cheerful Gathering of the Country Folk" in the "Pastoral" — were reliable and rich-textured.

CHICAGO — At a cheerful cafe and neighborhood gathering spot, eight women squeezed around a table, with bottomless cups of 35-cent coffee and plenty to do between the salads and paninis.

"He hasn't got a minute!" The gathering was a cheerful, comfortable, neighborhood kind of affair, and Dr. Eder, a middle-aged man, stood in front of his fireplace benignly smoking a pipe as Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams, who had endorsed McGovern back in August, introduced Assemblyman G. Oliver Koppell, who gave an eloquent endorsement on the spot and introduced McGovern.

These adventures were a far cry from Baker's seemingly idyllic childhood in Poughkeepsie; her father was a prominent attorney, her mother was one of Vassar's first graduates, and her tales of romantic outdoorsy exuberance, with clambakes and boat racing, ice skating and "ice-yachting," cheerful excursions and teeming family gatherings, are reminiscent of Orson Welles's "The Magnificent Ambersons".