If you have not flown Southwest, you might not know that the service, while no-frills, is generally cheerful.
Nanking!" This work, its title notwithstanding, is generally cheerful, and it draws so heavily on the orchestra's resources that at times it was difficult to determine where the focus was meant to be.
We're generally cheerful people, sons and daughters of Disneyland and open roads.
The Metro product was generally cheerful, radiant, full of stars, old-fashioned story virtues, music, costumes and authentic period settings.
Sterling rose to a 12-year high against the dollar of over $1.92.Although it did not stop the dollar's slide, America's economic news was generally cheerful.
People are perceived to be younger than their years if they smile and laugh a lot (be proud of those laugh lines!) and are generally cheerful and upbeat, the kind of people who smile at strangers and wish them a good day.
According to a University of Saskatchewan review of more than sixty studies of subjective validation, profiles that elicit the strongest confirmation response are relatively vague ("You enjoy a certain amount of change and variety in life"), double-sided ("You are generally cheerful and optimistic but get depressed at times"), and favorable over all ("You are forceful and well liked by others").
Those who came in groups were generally cheerful and talked a lot, using the café as a place to catch up with friends.
However, results from in-situ diary studies that have sampled these fluctuations suggest that there is a trait component to affect (e.g. being generally cheerful or miserable), such that at least some of the variance in people's day-to-day affect is explained by their personality (e.g. Fisher, 2000).
I, for one, am uncertain just how much flesh and slosh I've downed, but the crowd is generally pleased and certainly cheerful, considering it's not far from Monday's sunrise.
History, or History Lite, in which anecdote trumps evidence, individuals overshadow groups, and the past is generally depicted as quaint and cheerful, with little sign of the misery that most likely intruded on the days of, say, a medieval housewife.
