Sentence examples for fairly cheerful from inspiring English sources

And I'm in general a fairly cheerful being.

Their art had a palpable Dada swagger before Dada, but their dreams had not yet been trammeled by World War I. Theirs was still a fairly cheerful barbarism.

What is the use of having an unhappy anything," and "If you write about yourself or anybody it sounds as if you were very unhappy and very bitter but generally speaking everybody living has a fairly cheerful time in living.... Any life you look at seems unhappy but any life lived is fairly cheerful, and whatever happens it goes on being so".

Unemployment is edging downwards, the Dow is back up at around 12,000, house sales are rising and spending on consumer durables, most notably cars, is improving at a fairly cheerful clip.

Describing herself as "not a natural optimist", Hadlow characterises the mood at the BBC as "fairly cheerful … Obviously there is big change on the way and that concentrates people's minds about what might come next but not in a depressed way".

But in fact we've been fairly cheerful over the last week, reporting on a couple of dozen new startups and products, focusing as much as possible on the positive, and trying to defocus the mobs from blaming the venture capitalists for what's happening in the markets.

— JON PARELES Chris Martin of Coldplay showed up solo, like a guitar-strumming folkie, to sing "Viva La Vida," a fairly cheerful-sounding reverie about the collapse of the British Empire.

If somewhat less cheerful.

To my eye 'cheap and cheerful' is a fair description, while its fairly steeply curving sides give it a more angular look than the rest of the range.

Describing it as an 'embuggerance' in a radio interview, Pratchett appealed to people to "keep things cheerful", and proclaimed that "we are taking it fairly philosophically down here and possibly with a mild optimism".

Behind the counter, Jose was cheerful and reassuring that this will work as long as my digital TVs were fairly new; the flat screen downstairs was, the one upstairs not so much.