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

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

Against his bleak forecasting is set my mother’s cheerfulness, in retrospect profoundly willed.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood