Sentence examples for plain joy from inspiring English sources

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No song on the list evokes as much plain joy as "Footloose," the title track to the 1984 Kevin Bacon film about rebellious teens who best a stuffy preacher thanks to the magic of dance.

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Sheer joy.

Plain Happy Joy seems to be a product of the geography, just as deserts can produce mystical ecstasy and English moors produce gloom.

Stan Berenstain taught a million lessons to children, but subtlety and plain old joy weren't among them.

A minor motif of Irish words continues with the opening theme of the game, "Mag Mell", which means roughly "plain of joy" and is connected with Irish mythology.

The bubbling fountain, lo! it flows; Through the plains he joys to rove, Murm'ring still his gentle love.

Joy, joy, joy!

The Light of Love Lovee brings us joy, plain and simple.

We've all felt pain, sorrow, ecstatic joy, and even plain old contentment.

The lyrics, too, are plain — "It will be my joy to say/Your will, Your way/Always" — and Mr. Tomlin sings them deliberately, so that everyone might keep up.

Despite the passengers' lack of anything remotely resembling expressive language ("Sure are big creatures". / "It's awful plain"), they are overcome with joy, lifted from their narrow selves for a luminous moment, before the bus rolls on.

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