cheerfulness

His persistent cheerfulness was itself an act of resistance, a refusal to be broken.

Ms. Cruz-Rivas, who takes pride in her lack of self-pity, faced the ordeal with odd cheerfulness.

He says to accept death “in cheerfulness and truth, grateful to the gods from the bottom of your heart.”

Some gentle probing revealed that his cheerfulness might be, at least in part, a reflection of the team that’s about to open its season Saturday night at the Rose Bowl against Coastal Carolina.

“Dear husband, you almost startle me by your great cheerfulness.”