Sentence examples for less merry from inspiring English sources

Despite the precautions, the celebrants were no less merry.

Airline expansion is a less merry ideal than toy-making, and the change is going to be felt.

Even the ever-serious The Economist is in on the act, with the recent We Wish You a Merry ish) Christmas, a piece about the benefits of raising the price of alcohol, because a sober holiday is, apparently, less merry than a drunk one.

Bloomberg News, noting that spendable incomes at the bottom of the pay scale have hardly risen for the fourth consecutive year, reported that "low-income Americans will again have a less-merry season than affluent consumers, who are more flush thanks in part to surging stock markets".

Retail sales fell 1.6% in December, compared with November, showing that Christmas was a less than merry occasion for many households despite the region officially returning to growth last summer.

Playing a less than merry widow in "The Beginning of August," the somber screwball comedy by Tom Donaghy now at the Atlantic Theater Company, Mary Steenburgen has that grown-up waif look that makes sane people run for cover.

There is terrific support from Matthew Kelly as a booming cavalier who misreads the signs of the times, and Nicholas Rowe as the carousing King, less a merry monarch than one made melancholy by his own pointlessness.

The holidays are often less than merry if you have to deal with things like balancing work with travel, financial stress or seasonal affective disorder.

CareerCast has announced the best and worst holiday jobs of the year, and let's just say that the brutal combination of humiliating costumes, annoying kids and bad pay makes for a less than merry Christmas.

This comedy about a less than merry band of caterers, which went for two seasons on Starz in 2009 and 2010, was created by "Veronica Mars" mastermind Rob Thomas with "Mars" cohorts Dan Ethridge and John Enhom and actor Paul Rudd, who appeared in the pilot but was a movie star by the time the series came around.

Playing a less-than-merry widow in this somber screwball comedy by Tom Donaghy, Mary Steenburgen has that grown-up waif look that makes sane people run for cover.