cheeriness

He abandoned his cheeriness, however, and became the man of business.

In fact she had taken his cheeriness for a kind of stupidity, back at the beginning.

"Well, just call if you need me," I said with fake cheeriness and left the room.

"You may come in now," she announced with brisk cheeriness.

There was a great contrast between his world pessimism and personal cheeriness.

There was something about the bright cheeriness of the tone that bothered me.

He forced a note of cheeriness into his voice.

He leaned in closer, the false cheeriness leaving his features.

Cheryl asked with a cheeriness better suited for the lunch table than this situation.

He raised his hand to her in false cheeriness.

"Tom's got sore feet," he whispered to himself, but not without some cheeriness.

The cheeriness vanished and the boots followed it through the open doorway.

Cheeriness may be too much to hope for.

"Well," he said with forced cheeriness, "I'd better get going."

If you're lucky, they'll attribute their cheeriness to your software instead of the caffeine.

In mixed company, Administration officials maintain a determined cheeriness.

But their knurled cheeriness did not reveal the nature of what they feared.

"Come with me, young human," he said with simulated cheeriness.

They smelled of fatigue and their cheeriness was forced.

When plays of this bogus cheeriness say yes to life, they tend to make you consider the alternatives.

She led the group that night, bringing two pots of chrysanthemums to add cheeriness.

He adopts a false cheeriness about the whole thing as self-protection.

He wasn't fooling me at all with his feigned cheeriness.

He turned to Heath, and spoke with forced cheeriness.

Her strained expression gave the lie to the cheeriness of her words.