Sentence examples for simple merry from inspiring English sources

The simple, merry title, like those of the earlier two books, suggests a satirical take on an elementary-school primer on a foreign land from the days before political correctness.

To this remote place the Queen of the Marshlands, Our Lady of the Dew, calls out the simple, merry folk of Seville, Triana, Huelva, Cadiz, Jerez, and a hundred Andalusian villages at Whitsun every year.

Metaphors of androgynous transcendence abound in Colette's portrait: Lea has turned "simple, merry...like an old man," her joviality is "like a legendary friar's," her great jowls now quiver like those of Louis XVI, she has joyfully achieved "a sort of sexless dignity".

When he offered me a simple "Merry Christmas," I felt like I was accepting communion from a stranger.

"Each table should be provided with a set of songs that will be sung in the course of the entertainment, and the audience naturally will be encouraged to join in the chorus," he proposed, adding that this could "make the World's Fair the simple and merry people's festival that it was in the Middle Ages".

The concept is simple: a merry-go-round is connected to a bore-hole.

Ms. Meslin's own creation is a simple wooden merry-go-round toy, something that would be equally appropriate in an infant's, toddler's or even an older child's room.

Merry merry.