Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.
("The bumps happen to everybody all the time, and they are continuous," the first lady told me in a let's-get-real voice, discussing the lowest point in her marriage). Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.
"Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there," the psychologist William James wrote in 1892.
Agatha then makes the sort of simple gesture said to change the world: she moves her chair into the street and sits there cheerfully as trucks and cars swerve wildly around her.
And he was inspired to write Fleming a poem, titled "House Guest," with verses like this: Words to express the hardness of the seat Which, when I cheerfully sat down to eat, Seared with such cunning into my behind.
Herman however, sat still, watching and cheerfully munching on his popcorn, but he says there are exceptions to the gender thing.
Long-time single men will cheerfully sit on a stool and say, "Yeah I've got a lot going for me… I've got a job," then look into middle distance and realise that's it: that is the start and end of what they have going for them.
As he sat there, watching his son cheerfully pedalling among the headstones, it occurred to him to write a book about a child reared by ghosts.
And 11-year-old Atticus Shaffer did something reminiscent of the quirky character he plays on the show: he sat amid the chaos and cheerfully talked to himself.
But on a stoop right next to our cheerfully oblivious children sat our tour guide, Edoardo Zaffuto, chatting away loudly about how "the Mafia has robbed Sicily of its dignity".
