While conducting my never-ending search for cheerful news, I noticed that one of New York's senators made the Top 10 in a list of the 50 most beautiful people on Capitol Hill.
So if I arrive at the belief that I am feeling cheerful by unconsciously noticing the spring in my own step and the smile on my own face and drawing an unconscious inference, my cheerfulness will thereby have been rendered conscious.
If high finance is your thing, you may have recently noticed a cheerful woman from Brooklyn holding forth on the merits of quantitative easing.
"Time Step" tells the tale of three formerly famous, elderly hoofers (the Dapper Tap Trio) who live together in cheerful penury until an eviction notice arrives.
But the city liked him — A. J. Liebling described him as "unduly cheerful" — and his American host noticed that in the elevator of his hotel, on West Seventieth Street, an attractive girl glanced longingly at him.
When Grete re- turned for her bag, I noticed she was very cheerful and surrounded by several peo- ple.
I sat down, relayed the message to the mother in my row, and tried to behave in a cheerful and normal manner as we noticed the guy was now scrutinizing the safety and exit info cards.
It's a cheerful, silly-sized piece of frippery, designed to be noticed but only because it's daft.
If you notice that the people around you are cheerful and seem excited about life, then you know that you are on your way to success.
In campaigns gone by, Ms. Palin's assaults were gentler — sometimes so quick, so subtle, so cheerful as to cut people to the core before they noticed.
