But the two governors sounded rather similar in their wistful recollections of modest childhoods marked by cheerful, hard-working, up-by-the-bootstraps small town thrift.
Jill, by contrast, is vitality itself — she's cheerful, hard-working, curious, and sympathetic, but she has a double blind spot: her attraction to the black hole of the existential void — the romanticization of negativity and destruction — and her sense that, through her own caring interest and involvement, she can lure Abe away from that hole and into constructive, positive activity.
Noting that Gaddafi's favourite hobbies were reading and playing football, he thought him an "amusing officer, always cheerful, hard-working, and conscientious".
While the other follows a boy who keeps his family cheerful in hard times by telling them stories about a huge white horse.
Mr. Rautavaara's conversation, so rational and cheerful, seems hard to square with the chaotic, demonic strain so powerful in much of his music.
Shortly after Mr. Chen begins receiving generous tips, his cheerful but hard-nosed boss confronts him with complaints from tourists that he is soliciting tips.
Online in Chemosensory Perception this month, the authors report that visitors were more cheerful, danced harder, and were more confident in approaching the opposite sex when there was a scent it didn't matter which one.
The sky was a hard cheerful blue, empty but for a few torn contrails.
Servers at the no-reservation, no-credit card Cooke's In are, like the restaurant itself, cheerful, fast moving, hard working, unpolished and especially on frantic nights, sometimes overwhelmed.
