Sentence examples for cheerful playing from inspiring English sources

Occasionally they stopped suddenly in their perfectly cheerful playing and began to cry for their mother.

The cheerful playing at the orphanage dies down as children return to their houses as evening draws in.

As the season drips to a close with a playoff berth unlikely, no amount of cheerful music playing over the loudspeakers could lighten the mood.

The interviews are interrupted by scenes showing cheerful people playing ping-pong and taking pictures of each other in a Moscow park, while the voiceover says in a calm and instructive tone that "Russian people have more soul.

In the finale Allegro, the cheerful piano plays alone in four episodes, two of which move into the minor mode.

Mr. Bolcom's cheerful "Spring Trio," played by Mr. Faiman with Conrad Harris, violinist, and Peter Seidenberg, cellist, ended the first half of the program.

But she tried to make him cheerful, she said, playing the piano for him and amusing him.

The workers seem a bit bloody cheerful this morning, playing pranks on the foreman, having a laugh.

I see this most acutely during the holidays when I care for hospitalized patients, some connected to I.V. poles in barren rooms devoid of family or friends — their aloneness amplified by cheerful Christmas movies playing on wall-mounted televisions.

As she stood on the deck of the very same ferryboat I had sailed on during a childhood field trip, as I watched her take it all in -- waving to the people parasailing on the lake, eyes twinkling as she listened to the boat playing cheerful tunes on its calliope, face upturned to the sunshine -- it hit me.

By playing it cheerful, McCann makes the unfolding tragedy all the more moving.