Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.

German Novelist

Russell Smith

Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There's nothing wrong with songs.

Canadian Novelist

Scott Weiss

One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery.

American Businessman

Lois Lowry

Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.

American Writer

Steve Jurvetson

Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.

Nancy Juvonen

But Jimmy sees life as an opportunity and happiness as a choice. He's cheery in the morning. He wakes up happy. He gets the joke of life.

American Producer

Debi Mazar

For holidays, I like doing special cheery touches around the table, like color-coordinating the plates and napkins to fit the theme.

American Actress

P. J. O'Rourke

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.

American Comedian

Andie MacDowell

I love 'Forrest Gump;' I like sweet, cheery, happy movies. But it has some dark moments too.

Mark Kozelek

Christmas is cheery for some people and depressing for others.

American Musician

Use 'cheery' to express someone's bright or happy mood.

Emotional State

'Cheery hello' suggests a greeting that's especially warm and friendly.

Greeting Nuance

Describing someone's action as 'cheery' can imply you find it uplifting.

Subtle Encouragement

Use 'cheery' to describe pleasant and happy visual elements.

Aesthetic Appeal

'Cheery' is often used to describe things that create a positive atmosphere.

Atmosphere Creation

'Cheery' may not fit in more serious or somber contexts.

Context-Specific

 And then some other folk will say, "Actually, what changes civilizations, what modifies them and what changes people's lives are empires, so the great developments in human history are stories of conquest and of war." And then some cheery soul usually always pipes up and says,

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 We can enable a better future for technologies like augmented reality to extend our own agency and connect us at a much deeper level. Imagine a high school counselor being able to realize that an outwardly cheery student really was having a deeply hard time,

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 were never buried within the walls. And I thought that's a really cheery story. . That's really going to go a long way. So anyway, I went through ... And again, if packaging doesn't work and if the stories aren't going anywhere, I just come up with titles

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 I know some of you have already decided you want a good career. You're going to fail, too. Because -- goodness, you're all cheery about failing. Canadian group, undoubtedly. Those trying to have good careers are going to fail,

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 will gush freely from your veins and here's a cheery fact a bedbug can drink three times its weight in a single meal talk about your big gulp here's something else to brighten your day if you've got a serious infestation you

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 nature is on the side of the bed bug the bug administers an anesthetic so you don't wake up as well as an anticoagulant so your vital life essence will gush freely from your veins and here's a cheery fact a bedbug can drink

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 can be whisked away on the gentlest breeze -- and it's this that makes it more beautiful. It's utterly fragile, and fragility gives life its poignancy. Now, being a cheery chap, nothing speaks to me more than this, and --

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 to those of you who are who want a great career I know some of you have already decided you want a good career you're gonna fail too because goodness you're cheery about failing a Canadian group

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 unless we do something to prevent it over the next 40 years we're facing an epidemic of neurologic diseases on a global scale a cheery thought-- on this map every country that's colored blue