gaiety
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He’s not as unapologetically hammy as Andrew Polec’s Pirelli, the tonsorial con man who adopts a fake mustache and an even faker Italian accent, but he lends the musical a satiric gaiety.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
The general gaiety of the show doesn’t mean the photos here are slight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
Just seven blocks over and five blocks up from where the shell casings hit the sidewalk, they gathered for gaiety in a glitzy ballroom.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2025
Beneath the gaiety and carousing ran an undercurrent of anguish: The country remains locked in a ferocious war with Russia.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
People might comment, especially Saint Sarah, who makes it her business to pounce on evidences of grief, bereavement, any occurrence that mars the tra-la-la-la gaiety of everyday life.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
The idea of a sort of highborn Oxford, circa 1900, fits the play's alfresco gaieties, elaborate forms, donnish humor and prankish but decorous lovemaking.
From Time Magazine Archive
Encouraged by the shouts, cheery or derisive, of Provincetown's Portuguese fishermen, the fleet then set out across Massachusetts Bay for Marblehead, for the first formal gaieties of the cruise.
From Time Magazine Archive
The price tag for the gothic gaieties: $25,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
The enchantment of the terrace operates suddenly to make these people's glib and pessimistic gaieties, when turned to a parody of the past, rekindle its most significant moments.
From Time Magazine Archive
It took so little part in the life of the square, it so consistently effaced itself from the gaieties of the people who lived about.
From The Truants by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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