Sentence examples for seemed a merry from inspiring English sources

For the Old Etonian Macmillan, later promoted to the earldom of Stockton, the year 2010 would have seemed a merry time.

Growing against the grain of time, he feels time densely; the terror of transience and the tragedy of life's limits permeate this novel in a way that makes "Lolita" seem, relatively, a merry book, sporting an immigrant's amusement at America and connivance in its vulgar freedoms.

The junk bond rally seems just a merry memory.

Well, the Guardian mob made merry as you would expect, but elsewhere it seemed a night of contrasting moods.

It can seem like a merry-go-round: the people on the painted horses change, but when the music stops we are in the same place.

Sometimes fashion can seem like a merry-go-round of catwalk shows with a whirlwind of collections hitting stores almost hourly.

As I pulled into Chinle, the scruffy little town with its smattering of stores and streetlights seemed suddenly like a merry and welcome sight.

Calder's Lear initially seems something of a merry monarch - the straightforward kind who might chuck chicken bones behind his left shoulder while fondling wenches.

Here everyone seemed impossibly merry.

Life seemed very merry for Abdullah.

Jones always seems a little alienated himself, yet his seriousness conveys the weight of long experience, not all of it merry.