(1) A bout a year ago, a few months before she left sixth-form college, my youngest daughter asked cheerily: "What will you feel when you have no one left to wave goodbye to in the morning?"
(2) Keith Richards , after all, used to indulge in speedballs of cocaine and heroin with such regularity that he cheerily referred to the toxic cocktail as "the breakfast of champions".
(3) a note written in ominous red on its website cheerily reads.
(4) "I wrote four songs this morning," he boasts cheerily.
(5) "I've completely fucked my life," she admits cheerily.
(6) Duncan's began so cheerily "Hi Gang …" that I felt immediately calmed.
(7) We are all going to die, madame,” he told me cheerily one morning, while chopping vegetables.
(8) Models in full riot body armour and chemical survival suits waved cheerily for photographs, while one stall holder demonstrated a black breathing mask for use in a nuclear attack next to a tray of boiled sweets and a pot of free pens.
(9) Trying to understand the backwards film spurs the narrator to flares of inventive phrasing, but his voice has something else, too: a crackle of cliché.The narrator is cheerily ready with "no bowl of cherries .
(10) This route is designed for keen mountain-bikers, and I found it almost impossible to navigate the part-slush, part-powder path: I confess that at this point I got off and pushed, causing one passerby to call out cheerily, “It’s called fatbiking not fatwalking” as they sped past on crosscountry skis.
(11) Savile worked shifts and visited patients at the West Yorkshire infirmary from at least 1968 and was known for cheerily pushing the ill around on trolley beds into operating theatres.
(12) When they informed the PCT, it cheerily said that the GP had "been on their radar for ten years".
(13) Instead, they're scrubs-clad Casualty actors, lunch-breaking and lounging in the mid-June sun, overlooked by the cheerily vacant streets of long-running Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm.
(14) Next time a leaver cheerily tells you that Brexit has had no economic impact, you don’t have to just roll your eyes and remind them we’re still in the EU.
(15) So it's something of a surprise to find the newly installed chief executive of Global Radio , handed the job as part of a shuffling of the deck while its protracted takeover of GCap goes before the Competition Commission, cheerily making small talk with staff.
(16) She then paused until the audience's surprised roars subsided, before adding cheerily: "But tonight's nominees have proved me wrong."
(17) So when I heard someone cheerily singing along to bhangra in his allotment on the edge of Southam, I followed the tune.
(18) I think I could hum the bank's jaunty holding jingle backwards because I heard it so often and if one more customer services person had said cheerily: "No problem", when I'd just outlined precisely what the problem was, I'd have screamed.
(19) Today, though, she marches cheerily across Sam Eyde Street for all the world as if heading for the beach, sits on a bench, lights up a cigarette, and lifts her face to the light.
(20) But meeting Hoorn – a cheerily pragmatic artist with little time for the machinations of the UK music scene – inspired him to rip it up and start again.
Demeanour
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite his gentle demeanour, the 52-year-old director can be a taskmaster on set, according to colleagues.
(2) With the help of yellow contact lenses, a false beard, nose and teeth, he has taken on the demeanour of a feral animal.
(3) That cameo seemed horribly emblematic of a thoroughly underwhelming opening half which ended unadorned by a single shot on target, but almost imperceptibly something was shifting, and Klopp’s demeanour slowly shifted from jovially laid-back to scratchy and irritable.
(4) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
(5) His name was Ruwan and we loved him, not just for his amazing cooking but for his cheerful demeanour.
(6) His demeanour, as ever, is downbeat and, as is his habit, he joins in the applause.
(7) I can't articulate with the skill of either of "the Marks" – Steel or Thomas – why Thatcher and Thatcherism were so bad for Britain but I do recall that even to a child her demeanour and every discernible action seemed to be to the detriment of our national spirit and identity.
(8) Gustave's beatific smile and genteel demeanour work harmoniously with the purple hotel uniforms (Anderson does love a man in uniform).
(9) But Morsi's assured demeanour contrasted with the tense atmosphere that surrounded him on Saturday afternoon.
(10) And yet there is nothing in either Galeano's work or his demeanour that smacks of despair or even melancholy.
(11) Outside of the octagon, Bisping possesses the demeanour of an oversized Ricky Hatton - all mischievous grins, wisecracks and gentle ribbing of his sparring partners.
(12) Despite his friendly demeanour and indisputably big brain he has so far struggled to assume a new voice for the times; we must wait to see whether he can do find a fresh tone in his campaign launch.
(13) "Somewhere down the line something could happen and what that guy said, his demeanour, could be evidence."
(14) Her demeanour fuelled allegations that she had retired to an Orthodox convent or was leading a life separate from her husband.
(15) He said he believed that the Isis men were using hard drugs because of their confident demeanour.
(16) On Thursday she told MSNBC’s Morning Joe that her backstage demeanour has been entirely intentional, as a means of ensuring that life remained as “normal as possible” for her nine-year-old son, Barron.
(17) His demeanour is one of somebody who has spent the worst Sunday of his life shopping at Ikea.
(18) The foreign minister, known for his reserved demeanour, spoke in an unusually forthright manner.
(19) The irony of validating a military coup through the ballot box was not lost on Sisi’s opponents, who organised small street protests, though protesting was now illegal and police were ready to detain anyone whose conservative dress or demeanour even hinted that they might be an Islamist.
(20) His exclamatory sock-cymbal sound, often played at the turning point in a theme, or at the close, appeared to be struck with a dismissive blow like a boxer's right cross, and would be all the more arresting for its contrast with Jones's general demeanour of happiness in his work, smiling fit to bust, unleashing a stream of effusive - and highly rhythmic - chortles and grunts, sometimes eyeballing his partners with baleful amiability from the drum stool while intensifying the pressure, as if baiting them into bigger risks.