Sentence examples for upbeat like from inspiring English sources

The plates are upbeat, like most of your work.

His new book is at once gloomy and upbeat, like an Arcade Fire song.

The mood was upbeat, like the first party after summer break at college when everyone cannot wait to swap stories.

Their particular way of speaking - deliberately light, camp and upbeat, like a right-on teacher - must be catching.

The soundtrack tingles with an agreeably generic electronic tune, chill but upbeat, like the music heard when boarding Virgin Atlantic.

A few songs are upbeat, like the ironically jaunty "She Called Up" and the guardedly optimistic "Even a Child".

Every year, on tax day, residents of this college town gather in the lobby of a local post office for an upbeat, circus-like celebration as procrastinators rush to meet the deadline to mail off their tax returns.

"The Rifle's Spiral," which opens the album, is a nightmare of religious war in the Middle East, and the incongruously upbeat, Beck-like "No Way Down" was written after he read an article about outsourced labor.

Sawyer, meanwhile, has used the nickname "Moonbeam" on her due to her upbeat hippie-like personality.

There were minisets of keyboard-driven funk like "Nasty," of creamy ballads like "Again," of upbeat pop like "Escapade," of hip-hop-tinged R&B like "Got Til It's Gone" (with Q-Tip rapping on the video screen) and of guitar-driven rock like "Black Cat".

Audience members chatted as the band gradually worked its way toward more upbeat songs like "Luna Sea" (with observations like "Darkness might never come to end/Deathly light marks the scene of the crime") and the wry trucker's adventure "Blue Driver," which appears on Vetiver's 2008 album of other people's songs, "Thing of the Past" (Gnomonsong), and which had Mr. Cabic offering a rare smile.