In fairness to Ms. Rabke, it is almost impossible to translate the charisma projected through silent movies into the joyous noise of the musical.

Modest Words The sound in the arena had built with the rush: first, a buzz; then a gentle roar; finally, an explosion of joyous noise.

It yanked down its pants, made melodious and joyous farting noises, and waggled its hairy little butt at me.

Honking, bleating cars sit bumper to bumper, making a joyous noise unto the lords of commerce and filling the air with oily grit.

I'm not sure that rock'n'roll should be anything more than joyous noise - maybe ultimately one that means nothing, but then so what.?

A joyous noise erupted when Mr. Aristide's convoy of Jeeps did indeed speed past.

The music of the world turns out to be so much noise - but joyous noise.

The result - a joyous noise, a distinctive clamor, a common language spoken by a tribe that perfectly understood one another's blasts and toots.

Sometimes singing melodies, sometimes just sending up a joyous noise unto the Lord?

Their joyous noise did not echo across the Hudson River to National Hockey League headquarters in Manhattan.