joviality
Example Sentences
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Amid the banter and joviality, the message from the Red Roses was clear: they want to inspire the next generation.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025
The bright, colorful animations — arguments and fights are in surreal landscapes — add a sense of joviality to the proceedings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
One Christmas obligation is to bring tidings of comfort to those who, because they are suffering, find the obligatory joviality of the season off-putting and depressing.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2022
The joviality didn’t last long — or, rather, it flipped back and forth between dancers driving across the floor to more introspective moments for Marcellus, whose rich, layered vocalizations filled the theater.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
In this, the atmosphere, no matter how coarse, has a verve and an essential joviality that casts out morbidity.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
