Sentence examples for looking for cheerful from inspiring English sources

Mr. Spain and his brother were looking for cheerful fad items to market as the 1960s drew to a close, and hit upon the smiley face, which has been used off and on in advertising campaigns for years.

I wasn't looking for cheerful news.

STUNG by complaints that the media report only bad news from Iraq, the ABC News Baghdad bureau went looking for something cheerful.

Our first customer was a pretty young woman who said that she'd recently moved to the area and was looking for a cheerful neighborhood spot where she could get fit.

If you're looking for something cheerful, go rewatch "Mr. and Mrs. Smith " instead.

I guess those critics were looking for a more cheerful post-apocalyptic tale.

So how come I am sitting here at my desk two decades later, desperately looking for reasons to be cheerful?

People are just looking for a cheap and cheerful way to disconnect momentarily from the drudge and stress of everyday life, and maybe weed can do that in a lower-risk manner.

Geraint Wyn Davies, a veteran actor I'm always happy to see at Stratford, plays Malachi Stack, a cheerful drifter looking for work who finds himself caught in the confusion, and Mr. Davies infuses his scenes with sly doses of Irish wit.

Like "Enchanted's" Giselle, Rebecca is a stranger in a strange land, looking for love and expressing herself in the sort of cheerful song that isn't quite as cheerful or as fitting as it seems.

In his final edition, George Osborne – who'd spent election night as a pundit on ITV looking oddly cheerful for a Tory grandee – chose to run May's tin-eared Downing Street speech in the Evening Standard under the headline "Queen of Denial".