Sentence examples for making cheerful from inspiring English sources

On the other hand — the half-frostbitten other hand — you can imagine that all those fabric fingers spotted down at the curb are categorically making cheerful gestures.

By the mid-1930s, under Mr. Miller's tutelage, she was making cheerful oil paintings of New York street vendors, children at play and the sidewalk interaction of neighbors.

Late one recent morning, Lena Klimkina and Yulia Vasilyeva, both 18-year-old college students from Moscow, were standing near the medals plaza, making cheerful eye contact with visitors dwarfed by the asphalt stretching around them, intimidated by trying to get a fix on the whereabouts of the Bolshoi Ice Dome or Adler Arena.

"She's spent her whole life making cheerful noises," Akerman said of Natalia in a 2013 interview.

Low-maintenance terrariums or indoor cactus gardens make cheerful, lasting gifts.

But on Saturday the assembled creative types did their best to make cheerful use of imaginary blank walls.

But those numbers for knife crime, robbery and young victims of serious violence do not make cheerful reading.

In that incarnation, it made cheerful, often schlocky music at the intersection of indie rock and electronic music, and spent a spell on a major label.

The king rules by divine right and makes cheerful use of the vice-like grip of the church in order to impose his will and his taxes.

And he makes cheerful noises as his grandfather rubs his head in the living room of the public housing complex where they live in Canarsie, Brooklyn.

John and I make cheerful small talk in the kitchen until Newman breezes back in – "I don't know if you leave the house in a serene state, but I'm always rushing!" – and settles at the table.