Sentence examples for once cheerful from inspiring English sources

But the once cheerful Mouseketeer had let American motherhood down and the public's representatives, the media, were moving in to prevent Britney - now "unfitney" - from getting up again.

Many of these pictures of sinister heads and hands, and ordinary boots, clocks and sandwiches are painted in that distinctive fleshy pink of his, at once cheerful and bloody.

Here in California this week, Mr. Edwards was at once cheerful and combative as he arrived at what many supporters described as the decisive moment in his candidacy, pledging to move ahead even if he went through yet another Tuesday without winning a single state.

I began to fear that my once-cheerful daughter would end up miserable and out of control, unable to find a place where she could fit, and that caring for her would break me.

Hopeful that the fighting would stop soon, they continued to live in their once-cheerful home, praying for a return of normalcy to the city.

It's an uncanny feeling for an audience, when what once seemed cheerful turns chilling.

With its flat, folk-art brush strokes and the jaunty rhythms of the rowers' oars, it is an image at once melancholy and cheerful.

Martini 40-42 Millburneet, Millburn (973) 376-4444 FAIR ATMOSPHERE -- Two places at once: a noisy, cheerful barroom and a quieter, slightly somber dining room.

The kitchen was cheerful enough once I had got the fire going and the radio playing while I unpacked our festive supplies.

Is there a subtext related to Margy's daughter's deferral from Colgate? Could next month's book maybe be more cheerful, for once?

Faded and streaked with water damage and pigeon droppings they show hands shaking across the ocean in what would once have been bright, cheerful colours.