Sentence examples for festive at from inspiring English sources

Alternatively, get festive at the Notting Hill Carnival in late August, a riotous two-day festival that showcases the heritage of the neighborhood's Afro-Caribbean immigrants.

The reaction is festive at times, but there are also some slack-jawed, unreadable expressions.

DESPITE the recent jitters in world markets, the mood was festive at South Africa's stock exchange on June 5th.

PARIS — It is usually festive at the Hôtel Concorde La Fayette, on the western edge of Paris, the evening after the Tour de France's final stage.

On a recent Saturday night, the atmosphere was festive at the Back Eddy, a seafood restaurant with a white-beamed ceiling and polished wide-plank floors in Westport.

On a recent Friday night, the mood was festive at the Kaffeeklatsch, the pop-up Alpine snack hut and rinkside cafe, at 848 Washington Street, where the shrieks of amateur skaters skidding, sliding and occasionally going boom, were also part of the entertainment.

His classmates were uncomfortable with the film, but the parents and adult audience at the festive showing, at the Tel Aviv Cinemateque, were very impressed.

On his 90th birthday, at a festive party at the Caltech faculty club, Dr. Pickering enjoyed himself through an evening of Maori dancers from New Zealand.

By T. S. Fitzpatrick and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, July 12, 1947 P. 19 A Boston girl recently celebrated her 18th birthday at a festive party at which her father permitted her to have her first highball.

The New Yorker, July 12 , 1947P. 19 A Boston girl recently celebrated her 18th birthday at a festive party at which her father permitted her to have her first highball.

There is "A Festive Evening" at 7 p.m. Saturday at Rock Hall Museum in Lawrence (516) 239-11516