Here, at this joyous festival you meet None but the happy, whom your grief offends.

Mr. Greca had promised that the commemorations, which he organized, would be "a joyous national festival."

Noise pollution is also an unfortunate outcome of this joyous festival.

Finally, joyous festivals are needed at that time of year, to fight the natural gloom of the season (in the Northern Hemisphere).

He asked her politely whether she had had a joyous festival and were a good sailor.

To celebrate the advent of monsoon, the joyous festival is arranged for three days by the villagers.

The planned day of joyous festival had turned to tragedy.

What can I say, but that I'm glad to have been kept alive, sustained, and permitted to celebrate this joyous festival.

The whole court was assembled, as it was wont to be for a joyous festival; and Catharine once more sat on the royal throne.

The violence cast a pall over what has traditionally been a joyous festival that draws millions of people and the city's leading politicians.