In the mushrooming free festivals this year, you can see last year's best newcomer, the cheerful sad-sack John Kearns and his vanquished rival, lyrical and downbeat Liam Williams – both should be worth seeing.
The messages are alternately cheerful and sad, a wee bit wicked and increasingly desperate.
If they can say they are satisfied with themselves as human beings and can reflect on their experiences with equanimity, they will — no matter how cheerful or sad they were along the way — be expressing life satisfaction.
Dying, which is an act of living, might be easy or difficult - only the latter invites anxiety - but it is consoled by the saying engraved on King David's ring, put there to make him thoughtful when happy and cheerful when sad: "This too will pass".
If we would reduce our categories to aggressive, cheerful, and sad only, we have three non-overlapping categories covering the major part of the VA plane where song ratings occur (see Figure11).
Ten times a day, at random intervals, a watch would beep and the subjects would record how strongly they identified with each of four emotions: cheerful, content, sad, and anxious.
Actually, my favourite Dury song is not cheerful, but terribly sad, "You'll See Glimpses", which takes the form of a letter written by someone who has been locked up because his mind doesn't work properly.
The performers are virtuoso instrumentalists as well as gifted singers and composers, but they work together beautifully as a mutually respecting and loving ensemble, and their music is sad, cheerful, cheeky, funny, full of life, love and joy.
Feeling rowdy, sad, cheerful or any other profound emotion yanks her out of her perpetual daze; that would be a problem.
Then he switches styles yet again with the upbeat On the Road, which provides another reminder that blues can be cheerful as well as sad, and there's a further mood change for the thoughtful and emotional Stay Around a Little Longer.
