(n.) Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The month was bliss for the residents, but once the road reopened the traffic worsened with a corresponding effect on the quality of air.
(2) Rob Bliss, who runs a viral video marketing agency, created and directed the video in association with Hollaback , a New York-based group dedicated to ending street harassment .
(3) On involvement with the guru and a new 'family,' the experienced increased well-being and periods of bliss, and their acceptance of mystic Hindu beliefs was solidified.
(4) She told the audience: “Today, of course, for those of you who have been blissfully off of Twitter, the House of Representatives jammed through a bill that really very few members of Congress, I think, had read.
(5) Your blissfully suspended disbelief comes crashing back down to marketing-strategised reality.
(6) Their psychoses can be classified as benefaction or blissfulness psychoses.
(7) Just when Poland seemed to be labouring, two touches of blissful simplicity hauled them level.
(8) I think some would almost rather live in blissful ignorance for now."
(9) There was even a genuinely moving soft metal version of You’ll Never Walk Alone, sung by the entire stadium, the night transformed suddenly into a huge blissfully teary family wedding.
(10) 'We built a piece of the red planet in California' SC Everybody wanted to do some blissful tropical island planet, but nobody wanted it to look like a standard blissful tropical environment we're familiar with here on Earth, because that doesn't feel like you're going any place special, it just feels like vacation.
(11) In fact charm and magic refer to the same phenomenon, the promise of blissful sleep at the breast of Mother, the omnipotent charmer.
(12) Consequently, BLISS will be a useful screening tool during the rehabilitation selection process.
(13) The right has spent almost every moment of the last six years painting leftists as people gazing in blissful awe at Obama.
(14) Ignorance of the scale of the challenge can sometimes be bliss, he added: “You can be halfway up the mountain before you realise what the challenges are.” Stapleton’s keynote speech was followed by a panel discussion by the owners of three very different businesses: Joanna Montgomery, who founded Little Riot , which makes Pillow Talk wristbands; Nick Edwards, founder of software company Papaya Resources ; and Arpana Gandhi, who founded Disarmco , a company that has developed a safe way of disposing of landmines and other unexploded ordnance (explosive weapons).
(15) Wordsworth's French revolution paen, "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!"
(16) The results indicate a high degree of accuracy compared with calculations performed by Bliss.
(17) He is blissfully oblivious to both the biological challenges and the political ramifications of his question.
(18) If that makes you mad or perplexed, might I recommend downloading Vine , following DeStorm Power , and forgetting your troubles for seven blissful seconds.
(19) The Chihuahua desert city had grown rapidly over the years, because of the Fort Bliss military base and migration from Mexico.
(20) Chief constable Andy Bliss, national policing lead for drugs, said: "Enforcement of the qat ban will be firm but proportionate."
Glee
Definition:
(n.) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
(n.) Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.
(n.) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prime minister told the Radio Times he was a fan of the "brilliant" US musical drama Glee, preferred Friends to The West Wing, and chose Lady Gaga over Madonna, and Cheryl Cole over Simon Cowell.
(2) They talk of cutting down to size , of hiving off, of limiting the scope, with all the manic glee of a doctor urging his patient to consider the benefits of assisted suicide.
(3) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
(4) He lost no time climbing on the back of the clown car of the demagogue who, with ghoulishly oedipal glee, he calls “Daddy”.
(5) Today the TV show Glee depicts small town Ohio as a place where a teenage boy can openly express his homosexuality.
(6) But the new micro-institutions of journalism already bear the hallmarks of the restrictive heritage they abandoned with such glee.
(7) The answer, apparently, is comedian Eddie Izzard , along with a whole fleet of red-carpet English entertainers , who are to be driven north to bring shine and glee to the rather dreary Project Fear .
(8) James Monroe Iglehart, who plays the manic Genie in Aladdin, won for best featured actor in a musical and could barely contain his glee as he thanked a long list of people that included God and his wife.
(9) Those growing up in the gloomy postwar period remember his films with glee, especially the three My Favourite .
(10) The earphones were with Eva, 11, who was listening to the soundtrack of Glee at a loud enough level to produce that particularly annoying mixture of hiss and thud.
(11) In the last photos of her, taken barely 10 minutes before the Russian bombs landed, she shows off a new bracelet and freshly painted nails with glee, then squeezes a kiss from her squirming baby sister.
(12) City were ahead again before half-time, Santa Cruz dummying over Shaun Wright-Phillips' centre for Bellamy to plunder the goal he so richly deserved, but three is not enough to guarantee City victory these days, and Kenwyne Jones, on as substitute, headed in from four yards to get Wearside's barmy army crowing with glee.
(13) Anthony Glees, director of the centre for security and intelligence studies at the University of Buckingham, said: "The fact that these people were killed by an IED (improvised explosive device) might suggest not just that this is a very dangerous place but that the Afghans aren't particularly good at delivering security."
(14) Tory right-to-buy plan threatens mass selloff of council homes Read more Labour councils, responding to the squalor and overcrowding of Victorian and Edwardian cities, and the graphic failure of private landlords and developers to deal with it – indeed the glee with which some of them exploited it – had constructed much of Britain’s early municipal housing in the 1900s.
(15) They jeered each time the soldiers sallied forth and fired off a round or threw a stun grenade, mocking them and chanting with unflagging glee.
(16) Rusbridger also questioned the claims of Britain's security chiefs that the Guardian's revelations had undermined national security and – in the words of the head of MI6, Sir John Sawers – left al-Qaida rubbing its hands in glee.
(17) It has Democrats on the congressional committee salivating with glee.
(18) Mr Glees insisted the files he saw were not the same as those obtained by MI5 through official channels.
(19) Gone are the days when winning The Apprentice meant a lifetime spent buffing Lord Sugar's paperclip collection while weeping with glee in a stationery cupboard off the A1023.
(20) The hyperbole that followed yesterday’s story was astonishing – Professor Anthony Glees reportedly branded Snowden “a villain of the first order” – Darth Vader eat your heart out.