Sentence examples for once joyful from inspiring English sources

Miranda, once joyful, hides her own pain behind a facade of sarcasm.

Instead of: "Sorry for destroying this once joyful marriage with my years of lying and infidelity.

With a twilight Mass that drew thousands of people to St. Peter's Square, Pope John Paul II celebrated his 25th anniversary at the head of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday night, a milestone at once joyful and somber.

Writing in The Times, A. H. Weiler said "it is both a memorable and exasperating view of the male and female animals — awash in familiar togetherness, sacred sex and frank adultery — that makes it at once joyful and moving but crucially immature, disturbing and tragic".

This is how once joyful Christians become jaded, miserable ones.

When little Joe — in a scene that perfectly evokes the British school system's once-joyful embrace of corporal punishment — gets whacked on the wrist by a ruler-happy teacher, the sight of a sorrowful Lassie licking the welts is enough to bring even the most flint-hearted viewers to their knees.

Ali is the only one who is so struck by the thought of letting Ed die, this idea of giving up on a once-joyful fragment of her past, someone who was just there to "make them happy".

The Maracana offered volume again, but the screams within were desperate where they had once been joyful.

At once a joyful watch and a morally destabilizing one, it bears some relationship to "Fleabag," another dark British comedy driven by the narration of a deeply screwed-up individual, plotted so that its more compassionate themes come as a pleasant shock.

"What was once a joyful part of my week became a huge hassle.

King Herod wanted more details, and once the joyful magi shared details about this star they saw and their plan to meet the King of the Jews he sent them off to go and find the child.