Wife and doctor were resolutely cheerful and helpful.

He was resolutely cheerful, no matter the hour or what was going on.

The tone throughout is resolutely cheerful and end-of-millennium mellow.

Even William's resolutely cheerful bride is unsympathetic; she prefers to ignore his pain and simply hope that all will turn out well.

His manner was resolutely cheerful and intermittently pensive.

The answer, it turns out, owes nothing to a morbid streak; in fact, Scarry seems a resolutely cheerful person.

He hadn't needed open-heart surgery of the kind just undergone by a resolutely cheerful friend.

Let Mireille--' She bit off the rest of the sentence and made her expression resolutely cheerful.

Evelyn came toward him, her face resolutely cheerful.

Her eyes were bright and she blinked once or twice, but she kept resolutely cheerful.