cheerfulness

Example Sentences

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I don’t know Justice Thomas, but all who do attest to the man’s cheerfulness and affability.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Despite this catalog of current and easily predictable future horrors, America keeps up a façade of normality: the manic cheerfulness of TV newscasters, the moronic sitcoms, the contrived crime dramas.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2025

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

He had a nice, boyish sort of cheerfulness that had never been trained out of him, and I probably have not brought it out.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway