Sentence examples for least cheerful from inspiring English sources

Just call it one of the least cheerful, but most political, recent birthday celebrations.

It was to this hopefulness that the speakers at the Pym conference kept returning, even when the novel under discussion was one of her least cheerful.

One of my most vivid and least cheerful childhood memories is how discouraged I felt when it dawned on me that most of my peers could sit down for an hour or so at a time and plow through homework assignments without fidgeting, getting out of their chairs, pacing the floor or succumbing to the distractions of their rooms.

As "Be Aggressive" begins, a car plows into a pedestrian--and we plunge into the play's central conflict: How does a Vista del Sol cheerleader cope with one of the least cheerful events imaginable--the sudden death of her mother?

Still, at least someone is cheerful.

His life is ruined and in order for him to cope with the litany of failures and tragedies and remain, on the surface at least, confident and cheerful, he submits to a mental fracture, the main symptom of which is endless writing:"To the newspapers, to people in public life, to friends and relatives and at last to the dead, his own obscure dead, and finally the famous dead".

But, over the course of the 19th century, Kotchemidova contends, middle-class Americans consciously worked on their cheerfulness, or at least on having a cheerful front.

Inequality rose rapidly during the Reagan years, but "Morning in America" was nonetheless bright enough to make most people cheerful, at least temporarily.

Gerard O'Donovan in the Telegraph praises ITV for making a "terrific job" of this "molasses-like morass of morality", and said Piper makes Austen's least appealing heroine seem cheerful and attractive.

It was a moment to warm the heart of any Brazilian but Scolari had other reasons to be cheerful, not least the suggestion that Michael Ballack is hitting his stride as the season enters its defining months.

Among successful bands of their generation they always seemed to have the most fun and the least angst, enjoying a cheerful longevity that nobody would have predicted in the days of Fight For Your Right (To Party).