Most exciting, we had a pianist who cheerfully claimed "to have hit the skids".
Men and women cheerfully claimed they'd never work for a woman boss or vote for a woman.
He plays off 20, so he has to give me eight shots, and since the stroke index was eight on that hole, I cheerfully claimed a half.
Of course, Marr won't go down this avenue, cheerfully claiming to be indifferent to the issues of his private self.
And leaflets promoting at least one hopeful, Representative Todd Rokita, have appeared under committee members' hotel room doors at night — the work, Mr. Rokita cheerfully claimed, of "Rokita elves".
The Democrats are cheerfully claiming that the Republicans are so bereft of talent in a state of 12.5m people that they have to go to Maryland to find any.
In each case, the target was a corporation or government, not the general public; no one's safety was ever purposefully put at risk; and each action was cheerfully claimed by the camp, usually in a press release.
Steve is very fond of a lamb tikka chilli masala, won't be drawn on how often he has one, and cheerfully claims to have no clue on species identification.
He quickly dismisses official business to take us on a personalised metal tour, which includes his sedan dashboard thickly scrawled with the autographs of visiting metal bands, the site of a planned Alley of Rock statue park, and a grain elevator refashioned as a medieval castle ('My idea,' he cheerfully claims).
But Haydn's pastoral style is more generous, with all its irony: it is the true heroic pastoral that cheerfully lays claim to the sublime, without yielding any of the innocence and simplicity won by art.
