Sentence examples for even cheerful from inspiring English sources

"It won't happen," he said, sounding philosophical, even cheerful.

Tears are the acid test for me with opera — and often with musicals, even cheerful ones.

But as he was marched before a Japanese officer for beheading, the soldier seemed unafraid, even cheerful.

On the flight that carried Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, from Rome to Geneva on Tuesday, the Iranian delegation was optimistic, even cheerful, despite the bombing of their embassy in Beirut earlier that day.

So shell-shocked was Gordon Brown's regime by the unfolding financial crisis when Mandelson bounced back for the second time, that his new business secretary sounded relaxed and thoughtful, even cheerful in the gloom.

She seemed undaunted, even cheerful, during most of the interview at the prison, where she sleeps on a bunk bed in an 11-by-7-foot cell she shares with another inmate.

The way he arranged his words, awkwardly, with a natural impatience, even when cheerful, would have left marks on Alice if she had cared.

For there was nothing innocent or even particularly cheerful about the squeaks and snorts provoked by a glance at these tightly worked bits of ephemera.

Her voice is meltingly beautiful, with its creamy legato and luminous sound, tinged by a plaintive quality that never disappears, even in cheerful music.

It is, however, reflected in gross national income figures, which show that real annual growth over those 16 years has on average been 0.6% higher than reflected in the GDP figures.The true figure may be even more cheerful than that.

By the time we pulled our canoes out of the water for the last time later that morning, they seemed even more cheerful than the night before, as if a missing piece of the trip had finally clicked into place.