sunniness

Example Sentences

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By the time “Parks and Recreation” finished its run in 2015, the show had been criticized for its relentless sunniness.

From Salon • Jan. 16, 2026

There’s also a threatening aspect to that sunniness that I think you’re getting at — the opposite of the trope of darkness representing difficulty.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025

Some restraint in that second movement — even some sunniness — might make sense so as to leave somewhere to go in the unquestionably more explosive third.

From New York Times • May 20, 2023

Feldstein conveys a similarly contradictory mix of sunniness and sharp-elbowed hostility.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2021

The school’s instructors were priests from the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, an order dedicated to a seventeenth-century French cleric known for his sunniness and kindness who is sometimes called the “gentleman saint.”

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove