sunniness
Example Sentences
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Here, it’s employed to accentuate the small-town sunniness of the place along with its buzz and sweat, emphasizing Lee’s quixotic trust in the inevitability of truth.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
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
The songwriter Irving Berlin defined a very American style of sunniness.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2022
Even Gorman’s poem couldn’t avoid familiar valedictory sunniness, and often purported “healing” works devolve into feel-good “Chicken Soup for the Soul” sentimentality or are too on the nose.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 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
