How To Use Eeriness In A Sentence
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What is entirely missing from his approach is any cheeriness.
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They went to their places with that spirit of stolid cheeriness which is the wonder and admiration of every one who knows Tommy Atkins intimately.
Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army
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The eeriness of the world, the mischief and the manyness, the littleness of the forces, the magical surprises, the unaccountability of every agent, these surely are the characters most impressive at that stage of culture, these communicate the thrills of curiosity and the earliest intellectual stirrings.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
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Which is exactly how I would have put it, happy as I was to discover these books, too, after so many years of unrelenting cheeriness and pointless plot-iness and overweening cutesiness and, as Phoebe suggests, way too much sugar.
Jenny Rosenstrach: Daniel Handler's Summer Reading List
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So here's my list of other must-have early flowerers, guaranteed to deliver cheeriness by the spadeful.
Times, Sunday Times
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A high school graduation dance displays an eeriness that makes me thankful I never have to step foot inside a classroom ever again.
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Summer makes me incredibly sad, I just hate the heat and the 'cheeriness' of it all.
Pour lolita Goth Hello Kitty and the winter in me.
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It added an air of eeriness and unreality to the situation that made Joe feel sick to the pit of his stomach.
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Sure, there are days when I want to go around sticking my tongue out at the world after four hours of on-air cheeriness.
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Her dark eyes held a look so distraught and crestfallen that she didn't even notice the eeriness around her.
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One justification for his cheeriness was the knowledge that performing well against the world champion would enhance the validity of his comeback.
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This location's far back from the main road, so it's deathly quiet, which only adds to the general eeriness.
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But, today there was just this eeriness about the place that I could not explain and office space was being given away for $0.50 per square foot.
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It's got a bop feel in the walking bass and the vibe hits, but the three singers find a whole new way to construct post-rock eeriness.
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The story, of course, is not pure invention; several versions of parts, if not the whole, of it will occur to any one who has some knowledge of literature; and I have recently read a variant of great beauty and "eeriness" from the Japanese. [
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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She saw little of Dan in those days, and thought less; but when they met, she was, as usual, gentle and tolerant, patiently enduring his "cheeriness," and entering into no quarrel unless he forced one upon her.
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
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How I shall henceforth dwell on the blessed hours when, not long since, I saw that benignant face, the clear eyes, the silently smiling mouth, the form yet upright in its great age -- to the very last, with so much spring and cheeriness, and such an absence of decrepitude, that even the term venerable hardly seem'd fitting.
Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
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A voice that pummeled with cheeriness elbowed me out of my thoughts.
It Wasn't Me.
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We all know what a sensation of loneliness or 'eeriness' (to use an expressive term of the ballad poetry) arises to any small party assembling in a single room of a vast desolate mansion: how the timid among them fancy continually that they hear some remote door opening, or trace the sound of suppressed footsteps from some distant staircase.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers
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The Priory staff was friendly and helpful but had the slightly forced cheeriness I had often noticed in people looking after the sick.
Henry’s Demons
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I found the center a very strange and extreme environment for many reasons: the trancelike state of the shoppers consuming everything in their wake; the eeriness of the empty center at night; the constant awareness of surveillance; the day-to-day mix of desperation and humor in our dealings with customers; the industrial past buried beneath us (like many U.K. shopping centers it had been built on former industrial land).
Catherine O'Flynn - An interview with author
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I think we’re approaching a ‘let’s all drink the Kool-Aid’ kind of eeriness here, if you want to get blunt about it.
Obama Saves the World (someone get that man a cape)
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It indicates how the effects of suspense, eeriness and horror is established perfectly through the use of irony.
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Robert then decides the role is too small for him and convinces corporate to promote him to CEO — a position in which he'll freak the staff out with his eeriness and manipulate them.
Has The Office Found Its New Boss in James Spader?
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Another relic of Disney live action musical cheeriness from the ’60s.
Weekly Mishmash: May 16-22 : Scrubbles.net
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The same message was echoed by a disembodied voice with metronomic eeriness.
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But how much relentless cheeriness can the average person take?
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Indeed, he had a kind of cheeriness which seems to belong to doctors, which did much to comfort me and steady me for what was to come.
Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories
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The pedestrian details of the system of blinds between agencies and the management of the soon-to-be deceased actually add to the eeriness.
22 « June « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
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Flavor: the coffee is the most obvious, but it retains some beeriness - maybe some lightly roasted vienna malts - perhaps some biscuitiness/breadiness is that a word?
Furthermore Oscura
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There was an aura of strangeness around the set, a sort of quiet eeriness to it all.
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Cui Jie's dystopian scene from 2011, "Bar," also evokes the painterly eeriness of German artists Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch.
China's Rising Art Stars
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I think we’re approaching a ‘lets all drink the Kool-Aid’ kind of eeriness here, if you want to get blunt about it.
Obama Saves the World (someone get that man a cape)
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The influence of the dear old scenes was something, and his cheeriness was a great deal more; the peaceful present was not harassed or disturbed, and the foreboding, on which she might not dwell, made it the more precious.
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
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Thus, These are the Ghosts is unquestionably trad, but soaked in a churchy eeriness that befits its title.
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How I shall henceforth dwell on the blessed hours when, not long since, I saw that benignant face, the clear eyes, the silently smiling mouth, the form yet upright in its great ageto the very last, with so much spring and cheeriness, and such an absence of decrepitude, that even the term venerable hardly seemd fitting.
By Emerson’s Grave. Specimen Days
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In place of anything resembling cheeriness he has a wickedly dark humour, a gift for satire and an imagination powerful enough to leap the space-time continuum in his fiction.
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I'm thinking of the score Philip Glass did for Dracula and how it brought the film to a whole new level of eeriness, an emotional impact that I don't think it ever achieved before that.
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That number rings fifteen times before the human pops-on with practiced cheeriness: ‘How may I help you?’
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The disused railway station at Crouch End had a stagey eeriness, even on a bright hot day; and the abandoned play park was so dilapidated that you could almost sense the accident-claim lawyers lurking in the trees.
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The music of James Lucas, a 20-year-old from Bristol, chirps, chimes, buzzes and brims with otherworldly eeriness.