It was a magnificent evening and it was good to meet so many friends in such a convivial and joyful atmosphere. |
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Dance and body culture converged on the pursuit of ecstasy, joyful release from the constraints of modern society and bourgeois convention. |
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He said that July 1 was a joyful day for the entire Chinese race as it marked the reunification of Hong Kong with the motherland. |
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Masondo then handed title deeds to several residents at Zola and Emdeni, and was greeted with joyful shouting and ululating. |
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Plunged headlong into joyful Christmas celebrations, Jack mooches around looking mournful and lugubrious. |
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They talk about how they have come to see the Eucharist in a whole new light, as a joyful experience of intimacy with a close friend. |
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Dutch jazz has a light heart and a joyful swing, and this quartet brings boundless energy and excitement to its live gigs. |
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In fact, the liturgy should consider unselfish love and joyful praise as the most important element of liturgical service. |
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A joyful 60,000 guests welcomed back one old friend, made a new one, and watched their team unwrap some early presents. |
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But if you enter a garden full of colours, wild and joyful, then you feel you want to stay. |
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This beautiful and joyful occasion also brings me tears, but for many different reasons. |
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I wouldn't recommend this as a strategy, but it sure looks like a joyful fallback plan! |
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Give us something joyful to sing, because at the moment you really are dragging us down! |
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The music in Monsoon Wedding varies from traditional songs to modern Indian pop, and the dance sequences are sexy, passionate and joyful. |
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Recent provocative and hooliganistic statements have villainously slandered our nation and threatened the joyful happiness of our people. |
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Here ink spots clearly are ink spots, and Kalina employs them in a carefree punctuation that sets up a joyful rhythm across the sheet. |
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Life is too joyful for one to walk around being a buttoned-up old grump, do you not think? |
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Because, if you just glance at me, I look as cute and perky and joyful as ever. |
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Though in the prime of life, he still had the joyful high spirits of a young man, which he kept, I believe, into extreme old age. |
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So we give thanks to all of you and wish you a peaceful and joyful Christmas. |
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It has been pandemonium in Korea this past week, with normally-reserved people giving vent to joyful feelings in a way they probably never have. |
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Such a host of sparrows twitter that it reminds one more of a stream joyful sound than of a compound of little utterances. |
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From romance to misery via joyful polka, Morris crams this gentle work with humanity. |
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The message of Passiontide and Easter is at the same time joyful and unsettling. |
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Meals together are crucial to the building of a close-knit and joyful community. |
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Maybe it's seen as a way of provoking a joyful feeling of brightness and wellbeing. |
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His bright, sparkling trumpet and the joyful growl of his voice are familiar to people the world over. |
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I would be attempting to talk to somebody when another person would rush up with joyful squeals of greeting. |
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The whole atmosphere was joyful and peaceful even in damp miserable conditions. |
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I'll never forget the joyful expressions of disgust we would scream out as wee children. |
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The season has taken on a spirit of somber yet joyful preparation for the Advent of Christ. |
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I whooped and hollered as I pumped on the accelerator, and the girls squealed with joyful rapture. |
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Adrian was a good-natured and handsome man with a joyful attitude when he was married to Julie. |
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After all, there's nothing particularly joyful about me when I eventually do get around to the whole wretched business. |
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The musicians arrived and began to strike up the lively harps, lutes, joyful drums and gay flutes. |
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Yesterday was a joyful day for anyone whose political alignments weren't causing them indigestion over what they were having to digest. |
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She may be pardoned her short yip of joyful anticipation at the excitement the day promised. |
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Those who hear in his admonitions the voice of the Good Shepherd will accept rebuke with joyful gratitude. |
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Like manna in the desert and the Eucharist, the psalm evokes the joyful knowing of God with our physical hunger. |
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It was an assertion of Aboriginality more convincing, and proudly joyful, than any activist manifesto or protest could ever be. |
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This will no doubt be a joyful event of global dance rhythms and songs, so bring your dancing shoes and get ready to be uplifted. |
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You can almost hear, watching their avidly gleeful faces, the exhortations of the stage manager to look more joyful. |
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Now Trevor will have his own chance to try to jump into a joyful dogpile on the diamond. |
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It is a positive religion, emphasising the joyful and carefree sides of the Chinese character. |
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He also believes that the glorious festival of Easter declares the joyful truth. |
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Thank you for the most joyful happy years of my life and for our beautiful children. |
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The joyful scenes at the final whistle were what one would expect on such an historic occasion. |
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Lucas stared at the ground, trying to hide the joyful smile that was creeping across his face. |
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When not shooting, he was absolutely at peace, emanating a constant, joyful irony. |
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True, it's not a joyful film, but it was made with such tenderness, insight, and humanity. |
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Having a baby is a joyful but potentially stressful time as mothers and fathers have less sleep than usual and nerves can become frayed. |
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The home-made marmalade was joyful and the coffee, served English-style in the pot, was of very superior quality. |
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It is a joyful celebration in which Bolivians give thanks for their freedom as a nation. |
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He laughed at my joyful tears and gave me a kiss, while wiping my eyes with the sleeve of his shirt. |
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It left us both joyful and speechless, happy to be home again but sad that this great trip was over. |
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It helps to live a happy life and also make other people's life happy and joyful. |
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A joyful sequence involving a country dance is among his greatest achievements of this kind. |
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Her voice sounded like pure music, a melody he'd forever be joyful to hear composed. |
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Within moments, we would be dissolved into hopeless, helpless, joyful laughter. |
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The album kicks off with Nalete Ichila, a joyful song in Bemba inviting people to dance the Zambian way till the early hours of the morning. |
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Although it was not a male heir, Mary made him just as joyful or even more contented. |
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In its most vividly political form, dancers mime movements from the hunt as they chant joyful threats at police holding machine guns. |
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Canary yellow, shocking pink, electric blue and bright orange show off a joyful, forever-young attitude. |
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If you could have more control over your life, would you be happier, more joyful? |
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People forgot the gloom of post-war hardships and were joyful, proud and triumphant. |
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Those joyful and fleeting moments in the streets give us a brief glimpse of what our worlds could be like. |
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These dancers were twirling and twisting to the joyful music being played at every corner. |
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The whole process could have been a joyful PR interlude, replacing the current grind of grimness. |
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A glimmer of either joyful revelry, criticism, or downright condemnation. |
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I looked back at him smiling with such radiance I could feel myself blush, and a single joyful tear expressed how hard it was for me to leave him behind. |
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That will be a joyful occasion for bride, groom and the entire community. |
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At last I understood what all those joyful carols were being sung for. |
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With this peacefulness also comes a happy and joyful frame of mind. |
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My father did not want the audience leaving with such a sad feeling so he orchestrated a curtain call of gradual, joyful clapping. |
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James Brown, Bill Withers, and BB King are just a few of the musical heavyweights who sweated into their polyester bellbottoms in front of an audience of joyful Zaireans. |
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Where he is extroverted, brash, joyful, and snarling, she is cool, poised, occasionally nervous, and slightly shy. |
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Eighteen pieces range from early bronzes through mask-like aquatints and oil portraits of his sister Marguerite to a late and joyful cobalt-blue paper cut-out of a nude. |
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The third movement rondo was played with a swinging, joyful authority. |
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The church lustre was dotted with candles, joyful melodies of volunteer singers with roaring bass and piercing contralto mingled with the chant of the choir. |
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But the baseball fans of Washington received their joyful, long-awaited wake-up call this week when the newest mutation of the team took the field in Florida. |
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But the sight of that headstone made his existence more real to me, made me a little more humble and oddly very joyful. |
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But I also felt called to sound a note of caution, even at this spectacularly joyful moment. |
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On the night of January 9th, 2011, Juba was the most joyful place on earth. |
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It transforms the protest into a joyful celebratory atmosphere that is hard to control. |
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Comrades, some of the associations of this day are not only triumphant, but joyful. |
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Reading these words, this reviewer felt a tingle of joyful anticipation. |
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Jake's dark eyes betrayed that he was in a state of worried shock in itself, but it seemed to vanish when Vivian's blessed lips spread into a infinitely joyful smile. |
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He smiles frequently and with joyful sincerity, and his raven-colored skin is unblemished and taut. |
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The joyful ones also tend to draw more friends, who would rather bathe in the sunshine of happiness than to be cast down into a gloomy depression. |
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The kid broke into a sweet smile on hearing the joke, and with that the old man gave him a bear hug, covering his cheeks with kisses amid joyful tears. |
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She was also a sparkling personality with a joyful sense of fun. |
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When freed of the sudsy water, rinsed, and toweled off, she launched into a joyful frenzy of rolling in the grass, her newly bleached fur glistening in the sunlight. |
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They are joyful images in vibrant greens and yellows, but at the same time they evoke a pensiveness in viewers that some might find hard to shake off. |
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Standing on the bank of a canal together with other joyful dwellers of a clay town, the guardsman was watching the impetuous flow, a broad smile on his face. |
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In the festal throng, the mixed noises and movement bring Tito into the carnival spirit of human joyful becoming where his personal anxieties are excluded. |
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The art of the Baroque explores the wild and joyful feelings inspired by the end of winter and this is displayed in the fabrics and textures of the new fashions. |
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By then I will have forgotten why I wanted to remember it, because I am tired, so the sudden joyful arrival of a contextless word will confuse me a great deal. |
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His tail drooped limply and she noticed that though he usually looked quite joyful and energetic, it now seemed that almost all his energy had run out. |
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Artist and audience are bound together in a three-legged race, sometimes reluctant partners, sometimes joyful in synchroneity. |
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Frequently he hallucinates the sight of his master approaching, and turns round in joyful greeting, only to find there is no one there. |
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Two state-of-the-art water basins provide kids with joyful hydrotherapeutic procedures. |
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This book, a 35-year sampling of the writer's work, sings the mournful, joyful songs of life sustained between have and have-not. |
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Our parish is alive, joyful, and full of faith, hope, and charity. |
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And now the drought is broken, let's be joyful in our gains. Let's kyoodle, whoop, and holler for these miliion-dollar rains! |
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Gabby will help you learn the importance of a caring relationship and making time for play, and give you a new appreciation for joyful noise. |
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Millions of Greeks worldwide erupted in joyful celebration, hardly believing their eyes after Greece beat hosts Portugal in the Euro 2004 finals. |
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L M Winebrenner is the owner of the popular Henri Derringer Mystery series which is known for plot twists and joyful reading. |
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Shed a joyful tear as you witness children cavorting crunchily through the snow to create their first snowman. |
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He had a whoopingly joyful time for several miles, with his swift thoroughbred racing just behind or at the side of the big Plains animal. |
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Shreve creates a little world, peoples it with believable characters, and puts them through agonizing and joyful moments without a false note or a dissonant figure of speech. |
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The next Sunday he soared into song in the midst of the silence, a joyful and eerie curvation of vowels that astounded the congregation with its beauty. |
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My favorite family tradition is to eat small Chinese sweets known as moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which celebrates lunar worship and joyful family gatherings. |
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Overall, theirs was a joyful view of the work with no schmaltzy rhythm-bending and their matching song-like tonal beauty faithfully revealing Brahms' genius. |
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The downside can be, occasionally, a less joyful sanctimony. |
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Flow can be compared to Maria Montessori's concept of normalization, a state that includes a child's capacity for joyful and lengthy periods of intense concentration. |
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When I went to a sadhana, I always left feeling joyful and calm. |
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