Ms. Herrin "ran into" a Mary Kay convention in Dallas once, she said, and was "immediately taken with how joyous these women seemed".
When the team from 1987 gathered earlier this season to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Cinderella, Jodi DiRaimo made the trip back to Rhode Island and couldn't help noticing how joyous the occasion was for his old friend Rick Pitino.
As if to emphasise the sense of how joyous the nation is to end the wait for quaification, there was an evocative photo montage in one of the papers which showed a bunch of kids playing football.
Alas, ill health and accidents have kept him away from conducting for two years now, but how joyous that he will take to the podium this season and once again lead the outstanding Met Orchestra, which he helped to shape over the years.
And I think about how joyous that moment was, and how he didn't need to sit on anyone else's stage if he wanted to be ego-driven, but he wasn't – instead, he was dedicated to giving the audience a magical moment and being a small part of something meaningful.
How joyous are our hearts!
I love how joyous and despairing that is: it's affirmation, but along a very narrow ledge.
It is people saying how joyous life is when the chemicals in their brains tell them this horniness is for real.
The satisfaction of knowing I gave it everything I had, no matter how painful the loss or how joyous the victory.
A hard-driving businessman, Steve was surprised to find how joyous and fulfilled he felt when he visited his father and brought his humor and compassion to the other elderly at the home.
"How joyous and merry she was that day at Wolfsgarten, when I was there, so full of life and fun and health... What a terrible heartrending blow for poor Ernie, who doted and adored that little enchantress!" Elisabeth was buried in the Rosenhöhe with other members of the Hessian grand ducal family.
