Sentence examples for was cheerful about from inspiring English sources

In an interview, Mr. Mironov was cheerful about the fallout from his remarks about Mr. Putin, saying that the feud with United Russia had brought him more fan mail than at any other point in his career.

Halfway through the race, Coughlin had lost the lead, and by the end she had dropped to mid-pack — but she was cheerful about it, Mitchell says, and during the next couple of days went on to win three events and the meet trophy for single-swimmer performance.

"As if there were anything to be cheerful about".

What does that leave us to be cheerful about?

Not even the optimistic Professor Pinker could find much to be cheerful about in that.

In that context there is plenty to be cheerful about now.

It is not that there is nothing to be cheerful about: inflation has been tamed; the economy has recovered, and is poised this year for healthy growth.

But overall, South-East Asia's half-billion people have more to be cheerful about, even if their leaders still sometimes let them down.

Of course there is much in life to be cheerful about -- a loving wife, wonderful children, extended family, friends, Altoids -- but it's never easy to keep those little splinters of negativity picked up on the handrail of life from becoming infected.

There has been plenty to be cheerful about, with stirring televised derbies in east Hull and St Helens in the first half of the Easter programme, upbeat occasions in Perpignan, Castleford and Widnes in the second, and the best part of 100,000 attending Sydney derbies involving Bulldogs, Tigers, Eels and Rabbitohs.

So we have a lot to be cheerful about and a lot to look forward to during the years ahead, as technology makes its major leaps forward.