| In place of anything resembling cheeriness he has a wickedly dark humour, a gift for satire and an imagination powerful enough to leap the space-time continuum in his fiction. |
| Beneath the cheeriness of Aphrodite's sun-kissed island lies the intransigence of the Balkans and the Middle East. |
| But he brought into the house with him a whiff of cheeriness and hope for which I could not but be grateful. |
| One justification for his cheeriness was the knowledge that performing well against the world champion would enhance the validity of his comeback. |
| Some of this garniture had been removed, others softened into cheeriness and comfort. |
| By not a single quaver was the cheeriness of his snatchy, racy, merry voice affected. |
