(1) Eye-to-eye, the bumbling bonhomie appeared to be a lacquer of likability over a living obelisk of corporate power.
(2) Big names frighten them on their doorsteps, oozing bogus bonhomie.
(3) Tall, heavy-set, with an astonishing bouffant as solid, glossy and black as polished coal, he exudes the hearty bonhomie of the rugby player he once was.
(4) While the contest has at times been rancorous, there is now a degree of bonhomie among the contenders – an esprit de corps that arises from having shared stages, green rooms and cars non-stop for nearly four months.
(5) In Richard Moore’s book The Bolt Supremacy he describes the odd cocktail of bonhomie and saccharine that surrounded the sprinter’s swaggering conquest of London 2012.
(6) At the lower end of expectations, the Iranians will spread bonhomie and make a date for serious nuclear negotiations in the coming weeks, involving the cumbersome format of the past few years that has kept the international community more or less on the same page, but with little real progress.
(7) The White House correspondents’ dinner is a fixture of the Washington scene, a spring event at which the cream of political journalism shares bonhomie, fine food and comedy roasting with the politicians it reports on – including the president.
(8) Rajapaksa's folksy, gruff bonhomie and his canny direction of development funds to the countryside has paid dividends at successive polls.
(9) The bonhomie is also to the fore, of course, because England supporters seldom visualise this team winning the World Cup.
(10) He liked most people and treated them all – important, notorious and plain folks – with a cheerful bonhomie that usually fell short of fawning.
(11) There may have been just one breach in the bonhomie when the calibre of the squad was discussed.
(12) Now nobody can enjoy, everybody must win, so there is a change in the philosophy.” Meanwhile, Ranieri gave an amusing insight into the lovable blend of bonhomie and rigour he has cultivated at Leicester.
(13) Corden’s skits and songs create event television and illuminate his guests, performers themselves, in a better light than any semi-scripted sofa bonhomie.
(14) Talking with the orchestra's players a few weeks ago as they rehearsed in Caracas, I heard the usual youthful bonhomie, and as they boarded UK-bound flights on Saturday, Facebook was humming with posts – principal viola player Ismel Campos still typing as he got on the plane.
(15) He said he needed the money to build the wall.” Such bonhomie is a far cry from the perception of America-first boorishness.
(16) The laughter takes so long to subside this time, I wonder if Hague's famous bonhomie isn't sometimes a tactic for buying himself time.
(17) It was a cathinone: a drug in the amphetamine family that occupied a sweet spot between the bonhomie of ecstasy and the brittle buzz of cocaine.
(18) But it doesn't take long to shake him out of his bonhomie.
(19) Many in Ireland, used to the populist bonhomie of working-class male politicians such as Bertie Ahern, have always found her cool, even haughty.
(20) Others [at the BBC] would then unleash their hitherto withheld views and, suddenly, the bonhomie was gone and the club became a cockpit."
Cheer
Definition:
(n.) The face; the countenance or its expression.
(n.) Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart.
(n.) Gayety; mirth; cheerfulness; animation.
(n.) That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer.
(n.) A shout, hurrah, or acclamation, expressing joy enthusiasm, applause, favor, etc.
(v. t.) To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.
(v. t.) To salute or applaud with cheers; to urge on by cheers; as, to cheer hounds in a chase.
(v. i.) To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up.
(v. i.) To be in any state or temper of mind.
(v. i.) To utter a shout or shouts of applause, triumph, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(2) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
(3) At best I would like to think about this as Project Cheer; we’re going to be upbeat about this.
(4) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
(5) Male patients were more cheerful during encounters with younger assistant nurses while female patients were more cheerful when interacting with older assistant nurses.
(6) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
(7) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
(8) There was indeed a crowd of “Women for Trump” cheering at the event.
(9) He'll watch Game of Thrones , from now on, as a cheerfully clueless fan, "with total surprise and joy", and meanwhile get on with other work.
(10) I think it will be done right.” Jeter was cheered when he took batting practice and when he ran into his dugout when it was over.
(11) But Blair's address - "history will forgive us" - was a dubious exercise in group therapy: the cheers smacked of pathetic gratitude, as he piously pardoned the legislators, as well as himself, for the catastrophe of Iraq.
(12) The audience, energised by an early heckler who was swiftly ejected from the hall at Jerusalem's International Convention Centre, received Obama's message with cheers, applause, whistles and several standing ovations.
(13) From one of his hospital visits Marr recalls a woman, eight months pregnant, who had suffered a stroke: "There are people far worse off than me who are so incredibly brave and cheerful.
(14) Trying to discourage me from my passion is inhuman – it’s not possible!” The crowd cheered and applauded.
(15) Cheers erupted at a camp for 100,000 displaced Christian civilians at the French-controlled airport .
(16) The jeers were meaningful and the cheers, well, they just were a sign of entertainment.
(17) "I had spent my teen years listening to Germaine Greer and Susie Orbach talking about female intellect," she says, and cheers all round.
(18) Updated at 4.23pm BST 3.19pm BST 54 mins "Afternoon Ian," cheers Simon McMahon.
(19) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
(20) Officers in riot gear at a number of points later drew batons and clashed with members of the crowd, hours after the protest began gathering in central London at around 6pm before massing near parliament, where fireworks were let off to cheers.