Like the mother in Mr. Welch's "Of Blessed Memory," Colorado Ballet's director has earned the joy of watching the growth he has nurtured.
Cronulla are not really a team towards whom neutral fans would be inclined to feel any particular warmth, but a win on Sunday might well induce widespread sentimentalism and an acceptance that after all this time, all this pain, the Sharks have earned such joy.
What Martin Amis (another admirer) called his "manic erudition" and "omnilingual jokes", some recorded by Lewis and Biswell but mainly there in his own pages for all to see, earns such joy easily.
But the hard-earned joy of Tharpe's ascent, which comes through in her music, regularly drowns out the heartbreak.
Later this month actor Jennifer Lawrence will find out whether her portrayal of Joy Mangano in the Hollywood blockbuster Joy has earned her an Oscar.
You'll see the genuine joy in your child's face -- the joy of earned success.
"The women she worked with loved her and wanted to celebrate this new joy she earned after years of heartache," Johnson said.
WeTopia is free to play – players can also buy Facebook credits to spend in-game – but everyone can have a real-world impact simply by earning and spending Joy through game play.
He made his debut as a September call-up in 2008, playing six games, enough to earn him a joy ride in the Phillies' victory parade and a championship ring that he does not wear because his knuckles are too big.
As players build and grow their WeTopia villages and help their neighbors, they earn currency called "Joy" which they can apply toward real-world projects: whether food, healthcare, education or other programs assisting children, both in the U.S. and other nations.
"We were just all dumbstruck," Chanel Joy, who had earned several times as much working as a certified beauty therapist at a Fijian resort, recalled.
