cheerfulness
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He might be likened to that friend of Samuel Johnson’s who apologized that he had never quite managed to become a philosopher: “I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Where her Kayla is brash, entitled and self-confident to a fault, Jess is needy, full of second thoughts and self-doubts, even as she projects a kind of frantic cheerfulness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
His persistent cheerfulness was itself an act of resistance, a refusal to be broken.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2024
Ms. Cruz-Rivas, who takes pride in her lack of self-pity, faced the ordeal with odd cheerfulness.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
Instead of finding eating and singing with dead spirits indecent, many people attending the circles found Maggie and Kate’s cheerfulness around death a sign of their closeness to the spirits.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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