Sentence examples for joyful if from inspiring English sources

Strictly speaking, if you're standing there with a big smile, you're joyful; if you're jumping with glee, you're exultant; if you're shouting your happy feelings, you're jubilant.

A joyful if hollow exercise produced by Van Cougar, a Brooklyn theater company that creates shows out of found texts, the show stages short videos that have received millions of hits.

If that were replicated nationally at the 2015 general election, the NLD would sweep the next parliament and Miss Suu Kyi could become president.It has been a joyful, if at times bewildering, reversal in the NLD's fortunes.

If James had ended his hour-long infomercial in 2010 by telling the host Jim Gray that he was staying in Cleveland, the whole "Decision" event would be remembered very differently today, as a joyful, if self-important, expression of loyalty.

As everyone will tell you, the thing to do is to lose yourself among the bustling hawker stands in Gurney Drive or New Lane for some blistering sambals or char kway teow, served sizzling from woks, but try to squeeze in a visit to Teik Seng on Lebuh Carnarvon, for a fix of double cooked pork and long beans, especially joyful if you've eschewed the glorious pig while travelling in much of Malaysia.

The scene at Kem Meng's on Wednesday may look nothing like the joyful (if politically incorrect) ending of the movie where the Parkers are serenaded by the sincere Chinese staff ("Deck the harrs with boughs of horry, fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra"), but for us, it will feel very Christmassy even though, as usual, we will forego the beheading of a Peking duck.

Super Trouper sounds joyful, even if it isn't.

Did it end with all parties joyful, as if they got what they came for?

The mood was chaotic but joyful, as if Bronson were hosting a rowdy dinner party.

I think that being nominated for an Oscar is something quite joyful and if you start really stressing that you want to win, then you get … I think winning is not the important thing.

The celebration that followed Notre Dame's 18-point victory over Michigan State last week seemed disproportionately joyful, as if it assured the Irish of something significant just three games into their season.