Sentence examples for cheery occasion from inspiring English sources
"We want it to be a cheery occasion," Mr. Carter said.
Supposedly, it was a cheerier occasion, and there was a brightness to Catherine that has now been overcast by her fug of grief; yet even then the mood was brittle, with Virginia looking at the happy couple and declaring, "You seem cripplingly codependent".
Mr. Berlusconi appeared at 4 35 p.m., before the Senate voted, and stood on a cheery, sky-blue stage erected for the occasion.
There was a time not long ago when all you had to do to mark the occasion was leave a brief, cheery message of birthday well wishes on your friend's wall.
Mr. Yifrashewa ended his program with "Elilta," named for the cheery ululation with which Ethiopians greet joyful occasions and filled with tingling trills that imitated that sound.
As a community affairs officer she wears a bright blue jacket and no uniform ("It gives a softer look"), and her presence is linked to positive occasions: holiday parties, block parties, cheery visits to schools and hospitals.
Facile optimism is the last thing the US needs but on occasion Obama seems to project not the cheery confidence of FDR, but a rational pessimism made all the more disconcerting by the obvious force of his intellect.
Like Ramadan or Good Friday, Yom Kippur is a solemn occasion that does not lend itself easily to cheery holiday specials.
The crowd, largely Pathan, were still pretty cheery but attention from the match had slipped, taken over by the occasion itself; Pakistan were after all returning to a venue where they had created love and magic and darkness after many years.
We also had this cheery headline in The Guardian on Christmas Eve: "Could rationing hold the key to today's food crises?" On both occasions I regretted ending my collection of Questions to Which the Answer is No.
