Sentence examples for seems joyful from inspiring English sources

She once seemed like a singer so anguished that she could make it rain, but now she seems joyful enough — the life coaches probably have a better word for it — to make the rain stop instead.

Then, the song had seemed joyful and celebratory.

When Polly and Shelly flop around on a bed together, they seem joyful.

But the spirit of this new strain of exhibitionism doesn't seem joyful or experimental – it's imbued with a weary sense of obligation.

Joy Without Alcohol Ms. Fletcher found that the masters she interviewed "seem joyful about the richness and fullness of their sober lives: they get high on life without abusing alcohol and seek fulfillment and pleasure in its absence".

Tolstoy tells us that Anna, as she returned to married life despite having another man, Vronsky, in her heart, "did not sleep at all that night, but the strain and the visions which filled her imagination had nothing unpleasant or dismal about them; on the contrary they seemed joyful, glowing and stimulating".

Everyone around me seemed joyful too, despite the fact they sometimes had to do quick calculations at the cashier desk.

Most important, he seemed so joyful.

The crowd at the gig seemed so joyful, and from all walks of life.

In interviews with foreign journalists the activist and his wife spoke of a threat hanging over what had earlier seemed a joyful departure from the embassy.

But such displays of "the knowledge" seem genuine, joyful even, and Kamiya mercifully spares us the worst of San Francisco's self-­regard.