The crew is a cheerful half-and-half jumble of Brits and Serbs.
Except that it's not quite as bad as that; the march is pretty cheerful for half past eight.
And this, the critics generally concur, is the problem with this Godot: It is good, but too cheerful by half.
Clint Eastwood plays Thunderbolt, a criminal hiding out as a country parson who meets Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges), a cheerful drifter half his age, while escaping from two old associates (a brutal George Kennedy and a dim Geoffrey Lewis) pursuing him to recover stolen loot.
On the sixth morning of his hospitalization, his bowel congestion finally relieved, he awoke pain-free and cheerful and announced, half joking, "Today, I almost feel like living".
"Fuck you, Penske!" bellowed one of the football players, drunk enough to sound half cheerful, and flung his remaining bottle, hard.
By far the happiest people I'd seen so far at the festival were sitting in a stone circle being taught how to play the drums by a cheerful bunch of half-dressed men.
Cheerful helpful women were half the crowd.
–Andrés Felipe Solano (Colombia), author, selected by Granta as one of the Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851) The American hunger to comprehend all, and the impossibility of it, permeated half by cheerful melancholy and half by demonic rage.
Having finally come up with the password – complete with recent mutations of ampersands and exclamation marks and upper and lower case letters and barnacles of numeric additions (first phone number? gym locker combo?) once created on a cheerful whim and now half-forgotten at painful leisure – I was faced with an unexpected conundrum.
As for Tree, the authors draw him so credibly that he remains in a weird, half-cheerful state of denial.
