It's not often that anything wipes the cheery grin off his face but he was downcast on learning the bad news that his finger was broken. |
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Key issues include the chattiness of people, how often cheery greetings are used and, on the downside, the extent of violent behaviour. |
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Isn't it funny how something intended to be cheery can in fact be so perversely irritating? |
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Soft music would now be heard on the background, and happy and cheery voices as well. |
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It was a cheery, chatty atmosphere tempered with solemnity at each and every shrine where offerings were made. |
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They are cheery in tone, full of encouragement, bright ideas and suggestions as to how to get your kid to eat liver. |
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I stay at a youth hostel painted in cheery primary colours and with a roof angled as severely as any Swiss chalet. |
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It's true that the atmosphere back in the office when I got back wasn't quite as cheery as the one when I left. |
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I sat and waited, listening to cheery early morning conversation from the staff on the other side of the blind. |
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He had been in declining health for sometime, yet maintained a cheery disposition to the end. |
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A visit and a cheery chat with someone will bring in life and sunshine and make a bleak day pass quickly. |
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The clerks can be extra cheery, since the end of the shift is right around the corner. |
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She painted on a smile and a cheery disposition and let the world think she was okay. |
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He loves the wilds of Upper Wharfedale, where the locals always greet him and his crew with a cheery wave and a smile. |
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So I headed off with a cheery smile at having escaped from the maze of never ending aisles. |
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He has a wonderfully cheery disposition and is very popular with his friends in his local school. |
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She said that she knew all the children and their parents well and each one said a cheery good-morning as they passed by. |
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The day had dawned bright and cheery, and even now, a summer sun warmed up the blue sky. |
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Busy fraudsters spend their days sending out hundreds of cheery messages in the hope of conning people out of cash. |
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A cheery hoot rose up from the paddle steamer, a hiss from the steam train. |
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Cheerful in a different way, for sure, but I still have plenty to be cheery about. |
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He has a cheery, vaguely working class accent rather than Bond's clipped, public schoolboy tones. |
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Instead of oddly cheery or mildly clownish weathermen, they offered unapologetic scientists who explained the weather in glorious detail. |
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The album ends on a light cheery note and flows into the horizon on a wave of pink fairy dust. |
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The clerks, now ignoring me, continued their cheery boasts of difficult finds and commiserations on last minute telephone requests. |
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For anyone traveling alone, or someone who is naturally gregarious, the cheery companionability of the other guests might have been fun. |
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Behind the cheery facade of constitutional government lurks the inextinguishable specter of legally unregulated power. |
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We made love in the cheery, blinking lights, and I gave her a ring with a little pinprick of a diamond in it. |
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Meanwhile, the place had filled up, and cheery voices filled the small room. |
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You could even switch themes from bright, cheery florals for spring and summer, to more traditional tones for fall and winter. |
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Hail pelted down on the forlorn figure making her way up an elegant brick path leading up to a cheery little house. |
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Then I checked my email and found a cheery e-card waiting in my inbox from the guy I'd gone to dinner with. |
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The wall appeared completely black from the outside, allowing for a cheery atmosphere while ensuring complete privacy. |
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They were a cheery lot, especially the roly poly Glaswegian lady who giggled nervously as the ferry humped across the choppy waves. |
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Christmas lights decorated every house with cheery lights and lit up Santas, reindeers frolicking on the bright green grass. |
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They looked nice enough, certainly very cheery with their perfect teeth smiles. |
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Wait until your pet is doctored and feeling more like their cheery, upbeat self. |
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Back on the streets of Edinburgh, she bids a cheery farewell, braces her brolly against the raging tempest, and heads for the shops. |
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The Bitter Orange lotion has extracts of orange, wheatgerm, fenugreek and winter cheery. |
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Though private radio has sustained painful financial losses so far, their executives are still walking about whistling a cheery tune. |
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He is always ready with a cheery smile and wave, and is famous for sheltering passengers with his own umbrella. |
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The colors are bright and cheery, and case officers sit at desks arranged in an open plan, rather than behind plexiglass windows. |
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Thinly built, with thick glasses and K-Mart clothes, Lee is as cheery as he is modest. |
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As well as using clear, sandblasted glass, Kelly works in cheery yellow and orange. |
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Evidently that cheery bedside manner was left behind on a straw bale all those years ago. |
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The anteroom of his county election headquarters is festooned with cheery signs such as one saying Voting Just Got Easier. |
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It's definitely not a cheery, light-hearted book at all, but I enjoyed it anyway. |
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The cheery optimism that produced those rosy budget surplus forecasts of yesteryear is long gone. |
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How lucky would I be to see her cheery little face walking up my drive one of these days? |
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I had the feeling it was a very cheery afternoon in Sydney as I wandered the rain soaked streets of autumnal Vienna. |
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The smell of sawdust and fresh wood permeated the little store with a cheery sense of renewal. |
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Sitting on a low stool and cradling his beloved guitar he sang in a rich baritone a mixture of haunting ballads and cheery folk songs. |
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This cheery news reached my ears via the steam-driven radio the other night. |
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Have these people never walked on a leafy tow path, admired the multi-coloured boats or acknowledged the cheery salutation from a bargee? |
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Thinly built, with thick glasses and cheap clothes, he is as cheery as he is modest. |
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There's a cosy fire, Mrs Moran's husband is tonight's cheery barman and the islanders are friendly. |
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He was in a great deal of pain and found it difficult to be his old, cheery self. |
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On every block, there are cheery decorations, a medley of red, green, and gold. |
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The till staff had learnt the script for their cheery greeting well, without ever sounding transatlantically insincere. |
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The teacher was a cheery middle-aged woman with black hair and rather thick bifocal glasses. |
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Arielle blinked twice before opening her eyes fully and staring at Luke with her usual cheery smile. |
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He was a man of singular personal charm, cheery, unaffected, trust-inspiring. |
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Her long, black, uncombed hair falls over her normally cheery face, now slightly contorted with worry. |
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There was a twist in the corridor they were approaching, and a distant babble of voices lifted in cheery shouts, loud demands, drunken slurs. |
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Will it be the supportive lawyer, the needy, cheery, recently divorced neighbour, or will his sister in law finally relent? |
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The brothers had always been identical in appearance, but usually Pockets was a cheery soul and easy to identify by his smile. |
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He is a utility player who has quickly impressed Reds bosses with his cheery personality and trademark smile. |
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This stuff on here is not happy and cheery, there is clearly an element of menace mixed among the flowing melodies and lush soundscapes. |
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Despite Claude's cheery attitude and generosity with her homemade brownies, they all conspire to get rid of her. |
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But it's not a cheery film, and not one that does you any favours if you're feeling a bit bummed. |
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This summer WXPN named Calico an Album of the Week, and its cheery buoyancy has earned it airplay nationwide. |
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Bubbly, cheery people would be bustling around buying gifts, making dinners, taking their lovers out. |
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Catherine hummed and sang a hymn that faded quickly from a cheery ode to a mournful dirge. |
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Shaking my head, I buckled my seat belt as the cheery voice of the stewardess announced out arrival. |
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He'd spent more than a few cheery nights with them as they catfished on the Clinch River. |
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Where the most heroic character in the piece also happens to enjoy sadistic torture it's never going to be cheery and relentlessly upbeat, is it? |
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It lets me call people and torments my mother with its overly cheery voice mail message. |
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Just keep rehearsing with the new words so it sounds friendly, cheery, and chatty. |
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And although Beryl, simple lass of cheery disposition, has tried to sweet talk Tom on more than one social occasion, the old cuss has always rebuffed the olive branch. |
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Could it be time to install two-way intercoms in all carriages, so that we can offer a cheery hello to the driver whenever we set foot on a train? |
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I'm trying to keep a cheery face on and make things as happy as possible. |
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Whenever anyone felt down, she would buck them up with cheery word. |
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Yet, to many who encountered him outside his dungeon, he seemed generally cheery. |
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So draw the blackout curtains and drown out the roar of the passing airplanes while you contemplate your email by the light of this cheery bit of decor. |
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Soon, however, Altair began humming, his usual cheery mood returning. |
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I greeted him, pinning a cheery red, white and blue cockade to his hat. |
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He did his best under difficult circumstances, but remained a tense, suspicious figure whose occasional attempts at cheery bonhomie always struck a false note with us. |
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His face was now cheery, no longer hinting darkly at his knowledge. |
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Somehow, the caliginous man's intimidating demeanor always failed to discourage or frighten Josh, much less hamper his cheery, gossiping attitude. |
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The cascading stream makes a cheery companion as the track climbs steadily up through the forest for a couple of miles and eventually terminates in a wide clearing. |
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The vocals are supported by guitar, violin and keyboard and, of course, the occasional handclaps, providing an up-beat, cheery backing to the shopping of Argos customers. |
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His expression changed from a cheery smile to a solemn frown. |
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As he bounded in looking fresh, relaxed and incredibly cheery, I noticed the charm that might grate with cynical newspapermen and City old-timers. |
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Alan Gross was in a cheery mood, having survived a grim five-year stint in a Cuban prison. |
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The cheery 69-year-old father of eight sits in the center with his wife and delicately brandishes a small, brown book. |
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There is no electric display telling you of the next station, but you do get a cheery conductor who can criticise the beautiful morning, when it is raining. |
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The air was that perfect refreshing nip of cold, just enough to tint the cheeks pink, and the topaz sky was cloudless and cheery, even in the late morning. |
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The trees around them were thin and willowy, soft breezes shook their leaves and sounded like cheery tintinnabulations ringing throughout the air. |
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She's clearly a hit with drivers as well, with a series of cars giving a cheery toot of the horn as they pass, while others stop to put some money in her collecting tin. |
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I can recall happy evenings sitting round cheery fires, making our own entertainment, and a wonderful spirit of friendliness and fellowship prevailing. |
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She's a manically cheery person who thinks that because I live and breathe in the world of news, I've become laden with the gloom of it all. |
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Our young friends in the KOR invited us for a Christmas Eve feast in a cold but cheery apartment. |
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A resilient and rugged grower that is loved for its unusual caudex and bright, cheery flowers that adorn the plant in spring. |
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His cheery thumbs-up had become a feature of social media posts in which he charted his fund-raising and his battle with bowel cancer. |
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Barney Arkell was known for his cheery high-fives he shared with Wheelers Lane Primary School pupils crossing Haunch Lane in Kings Heath. |
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The other turned a plump, cheery, rather self-indulgent face over his shoulder towards the hailer. |
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True, Roubini is a paid-up doomster, not a cheery fellow at all. |
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Choccies inside the egg are adorned with handpiped cheery faces. |
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Professor Stephen Hawking put the cat among the pigeons last week with his cheery remarks about comet Machholz-2, which some astronomers believe could be heading our way. |
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The actor, who has died aged 68, was a renowned scene stealer as cheery binman Eddie Yeats in Coronation Street and slobbish Onslow in Keeping Up Appearances. |
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There was also a cheery lesson on tremolo technique, befitting Ogden's day job as principal lecturer in guitar at the Royal Northern College of Music. |
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They are powered by tea and have been thoroughly checked for rosy cheeks, a cheery nature and a love of all thing jingly, joked a council spokeswoman. |
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Cheery ladies from Bolton were tickled pink when they learned that laughing can make people slim. |
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Cheery yellow flower heads nod all around me, their colours heightened. |
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