Sentence examples for merrily that from inspiring English sources

The "Merrily" that opened on Wednesday night — inaugurating the new season of the Encores! series of American musicals in concert at City Center — might be seen as the end product of years of finishing school, of three decades of revamped (and often rewritten) revivals.

Nureyev clowned it up so merrily that the critic Richard Buckle likened him to "a tipsy monkey".

And Smith observes merrily that they spend so much time together that, in her private life, she often catches herself wondering where Elliott is.

You notice how much more merrily that last sentence bounced along because I chose "spring" to express spending, instead of, say, "plunge," and "lighter" instead of, say, "less staggering".

Even his deceptively gentle 2003 prize-winner, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, with its export-friendly brand of Buddhism-lite, toyed with the onscreen tormenting of animals and concluded merrily that lust inevitably leads to murder.

Before that England's lower order had made such a spirited charge that for seven overs immediately after tea, during which time Matt Prior and Graeme Swann swung the bat so merrily that 60 runs came, the South Africans themselves, caught up in the frenetic atmosphere, must have been wondering whether they might be finding themselves on the end of a mugging.

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson (who may or may not be mayor of London by the time of the opening ceremony) is merrily insisting that transport will be the 2012 dog that doesn't bark and that fears of gridlock will turn out to be this year's Millennium Bug scare.

"I've got no inner life," he declares merrily, something that is plainly untrue.

They get twice as fast every 18 months and will continue merrily along that path.

It's a "Rite" you can shimmy to, and Morris' dancers merrily do that too.

ARNOLD TOYNBEE To be content with life — or to live merrily, rather — all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.