Sentence examples for cheerful if from inspiring English sources

Tom arrives, cheerful, if a little sleepy.

GOOD DAY SUNSHINE The service is cheerful if occasionally uninformed.

She was a cheerful, if highly irregular, churchgoer, and unapologetically pro-birth-control.

Some had spent the night in transit but they seemed cheerful, if rumpled.

His voice and manner were cheerful, if his lecture was a cautionary tale.

So let me tell liberals why they should be cheerful if McCain happens to win. 1.

But he seemed cheerful enough if a little shaky.

"He would hold no grudge and right afterward be very cheerful as if nothing had happened.

"Now we'll leave here fast," I say to Lidor, my voice cheerful, as if this were a game.

Instead, her abstractions are almost cheerful, as if enamel, sawdust, and mica were bursting from the core of the canvas and blossoming out toward the edges.

The undercurrent of anxiety, of cheerful malice if not threat, seems to say something about the realities of Southern life before the civil rights movement.