Hence my cheery onscreen persona.
In recent years, there has been a determined attempt to domesticate Hammer, focusing on its pastoral English landscapes, cheery performances from much-loved character actors and vein of sanguinary humour.
As they farm, protest and rub up against one another, the disparate characters display a cheery optimism that "makes for a surprisingly sophisticated tension," Claire Dederer said here last year.
He has examined the essential corpus of philosophical works for dietary tips, both from gloomily ascetic characters such as Thomas Hobbes to cheery souls of the likes of Immanuel Kant.
He was cheery, talkative, helpful and benign, many said, a secondary character in the daily narrative of this busy street.
Simple, restrained and playful, the mochi twins are just the right characters to send diners away with a cheery wave.
Cheery, cupcake-dappled aprons worn in the movie by the character Charlotte York-Goldenblatt and her daughter are $32 for adults and $24 for children at Anthropologie stores.
Rather, what they do is to magically tie up a series of apparently irreconcilable characters – Roman centurions, antsy shop assistants, and a cheery pair of newscasters – pushing them along with deft clowning and dexterous, vaudevillian, wordplay.
"Planet 51" tells the story of a cheery American astronaut who lands in a world filled with characters, landscapes and attitudes that bear a humorous relation to the 1950s.
The skewed angle of the old floor, the nicotine-laminated brick walls and ceiling, the fireplace and the timeless characters darting back and forth create a sort of cheery Dickensian image, sideboards groaning and all the rest.
