A happy and joyful mood is created in the bronze work The Laughing Basutu (1936).

They were in a joyful mood.

He found Treville in a joyful mood.

It was hardly the joyful mood in which Folly had expected to take possession of her new domain, but it seemed to work well enough.

It reflects the joyful mood of the opening chorus.

But for some, the joyful mood is tempered by a sense of uncertainty about terrorism and what comes next in the war-ravaged region.

The combined choirs sustained the joyful mood with the aptly chosen hymns.

The first children's chorus follows, in a joyful mood, as the music gathers force and pace.

Richer by that experience, and not exactly in joyful mood, we continued the journey.

The novel is bathed in a joyful, cloistered mood of sensual celebration.