So on this sunny afternoon the filmmakers — two producers, the director, and the star, Keanu Reeves, whose black suit and black T-shirt and black beard gave him the look of a stylish sexton — had cheerfully trekked over the hill to STX Entertainment's offices in Burbank, and STX's executives had cheerfully welcomed them with a bottomless supply of bottled water.
Many Memphians chartered buses of their own to Nashville, where the train was cheerfully welcomed.
Looking trim and dapper in a stylish suit, he cheerfully welcomed the audience and explained that, being an artist, he is prone to whims.
Cheerfully welcomed at the entrance, our dripping coats stowed, we were soon snug in the bar, sinking into leather wingback armchairs and clutching goldfish-bowls of gin and tonic.
They were barely welcomed beyond the cheerfully forced ministrations of church groups and social workers, but in most places the assumption was that, after a couple of generations, some sort of assimilation would be inevitable.
This year, Newsweek cheerfully welcomed the Class of 2016 by asking, "Is College a Lousy Investment?" And in The Times, Andrew Martin reported that the Department of Education is paying more than $1.4 billion per annum to folks whose job it is to collect on $76 billion in defaulted student loans.
But the pace, instead of gradually winding down, progressively speeds up – and finally we're riding a wave of zane, with crowds of subsidiary characters cheerfully welcomed on to the screen and given entertaining and amusing things to say and do.
And Bono, on arriving, made a beeline for party host Harvey Weinstein, who cheerfully welcomed his steady stream of VIP guests.
Nobody at the base is prepared to be interviewed, but when we show up the next afternoon, we drive around the inside perimeter and are cheerfully welcomed by the Polisario soldiers who are protecting the people who were once meant to protect them.
