This article, which became the first part of the book, was a lively, mostly cheerful piece, full of offbeat and colorful detail -- as soundly constructed, William Maxwell writes in the book's introduction, as a piece of carpentry: "No hesitations.
Hotels were packed with smart people, and the city was bustling with slick doctors and their slightly ailing yet mostly cheerful patients.
That is not to say that Mr. Herrera and the national Democratic Party have broadcast mostly cheerful, positive commercials.
Instead of tens of thousands of grizzled and angry shipyard workers, the Honda strike involves about 1,900 mostly cheerful young people.
My family, a mostly cheerful bunch, doesn't necessarily support my habit, though they don't actively oppose it, either.
In the memoirs, Ballard describes his mostly cheerful struggle to raise three young children singlehandedly (he has a longstanding partner, Claire, who lives in west London).
Mr. McClellan, who has served as the mostly cheerful, boyish-looking principal deputy in the White House press office, is to replace Ari Fleischer, who has been the mostly stern public face of the White House through a tumultuous two and a half years.
It's a strange tourism, perhaps similar to that which brought so many to Ground Zero, though here the crowd is mostly cheerful, not hushed.
But among the couples who formed his dinner group, Mr. Glick was mostly viewed as kind, cheerful and loyal.
