How To Use Gaiety In A Sentence

They rallied me with a good deal of gaiety on different subjects, particularly upon the whiteness of my skin and the prominency of my nose. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7
Fontaine has prettily set it off, and an anonymous writer has composed it in Latin Anacreontic verses; and at length our Prior has given it with equal gaiety and freedom. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
The colourful flags added to the gaiety of the occasion.
His own farces and burlesques have faded into obscurity, but this contributor to the ‘gaiety of nations' lies buried in Westminster abbey.
Village fairs were occasions for happiness and gaiety.

Paterfamilias is obliged to drink the cup of gaiety to the dregs, which is almost worse than being in office. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
The gaiety with which they had set out had somehow vanished; and yet there was no enmity or malice between them.
If red roses are arranged with yellow roses or blossoms contain both red and yellow coloration, they express gaiety, joviality and happiness.
The colourful flags added to the gaiety of the occasion.
But it is impossible by words to convey any idea of the effect of his conversation, and of the impression made by so much philosophy, gaiety and humour, accompanied by a manner at once so animated and simple.
The Vieux Carre, you must know, is the old French heart of New Orleans, and one gigantic fleshpot fine houses and walks, excellent eating-places and gardens, brilliantly lit by night, with music and gaiety and colour everywhere, and every second establishment a knocking-shop. Isabelle
There's no denying they add to the gaiety of TV. The Sun
The Third Man is very much a jape - a sardonic waltz set to the mocking gaiety of its infectious zither theme.
This production is not the work of one's dreams, but it has a freshness and gaiety that puts many other musicals to shame.
Seldom had the King evinced more gaiety of heart than at this particular period, or appeared to derive greater amusement from the gossipry of the Court and the gallantries of the courtiers; and he no sooner ascertained that Mademoiselle d'Entragues had become the mistress of Bassompierre than he said laughingly to the Duc de Guise: The Life of Marie de Medicis
a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner
They learned fairly to live in the perfunctory; they remained in it as many hours of the day as might be; it took on finally the likeness of some spacious central chamber in a haunted house, a great overarched and overglazed rotunda, where gaiety might reign, but the doors of which opened into sinister circular passages. The Golden Bowl — Complete
Laughter is easily restrained, by a very little reflection; but as it is generally connected with the idea of gaiety, people do not enough attend to its absurdity. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Music embraces and releases the soul, giving a sense of peace, comfort and gaiety. Dr T.P.Chia
Of all deceptive things on earth nothing is so deceptive as mere gaiety and merriment.
He paid tribute to Abbeyside Pattern Committee and those who helped to light the Village, giving an atmosphere of gaiety and good cheer for the Christmas Season.
Her artificial gaiety disguised an inner sadness.
Mr Morrice, without ceremony, attacked his fair neighbour; he talked of her journey, and the prospects of gaiety which it opened to her view; but by these finding her unmoved, he changed his theme, and expatiated upon the delights of the spot she was quitting. Cecilia
Leopold Hawelka, himself, will often add to the day's gaiety by inducing strangers to share your table, leaving you free to ignore or chat to them as you will.
But after that, she declined into a fog of faux gaiety.
The Gaiety stuck to its well-tried popular repertory of melodramas, comedies, and musicals, though both theatres scheduled touring opera companies throughout the year.
Regarding the Salon delle conversazione: in describing the term salon, Alberti alludes to its derivation (he believes) from saltare, to dance, "because that was where the gaiety of weddings and banquets took place. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
-- Ipley crooned a ready accompaniment: the sleepers had been awakened: the women and the men were alive, half-dancing, half-chorusing here a baby was tossed, and there an old fellow's elbow worked mutely, expressive of the rollicking gaiety within him: the whole length of the booth was in a pleasing simmer, ready to overboil with shouts humane and cheerful, while Sandra Belloni — Volume 2
He sees the gaiety of Sundays, the flashes of the sun, the oddity of a crowd carried away by the rhythm of the valses, the laughter, the clinking of glasses, the vibrating and hot atmosphere; and he applies to this spectacle of joyous vulgarity his gifts as a sumptuous colourist, the arabesque of the lines, the gracefulness of his bathers, and the happy eurythmy of his soul. The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
‘I longed sadly for some gaiety’, she wrote to her uncle Leopold at 16, ‘but we have been for the last three months immured within our old palace.’
The palpable anger and sadness at a village fair, usually an occasion for gaiety, was a poignant commentary on the hypocritical times we live in.
On leave, many of your men gravitate towards the Piccadilly neighbourhood, where, despite the black-out, rationing and high prices, a certain spirituous gaiety is still achieved, but this is more likely to lower the bank account than to raise the view of the earnestness of our war-effort. Dunkirk to Dieppe and Beyond
Notwithstanding all my daughter says in gaiety of heart, she would sooner even relinquish the man she loves, than offend a father in whom she has always found the tenderest and most faithful of friends. The History of Emily Montague
The new version by Opera Ireland at the Gaiety looks like a real scorcher.
something frantic in their gaiety
Sunshine restored, even in the flooded quarters, the true Parisian gaiety that had for a time been overclouded with a terrible sense of powerlessness and insecurity. The Paris Flood of 1910 | Edwardian Promenade
I expect my chosen career to last several more years, and bring happiness and gaiety.
Sun and privacy shading is provided by textile screens which add to the general gaiety and variety of the composition.
In November 2000 Richie moved to Dublin where he began working professionally, debuting at the Gaiety Theatre in the Aladdin pantomime
Of all deceptive things on earth nothing is so deceptive as mere gaiety and merriment.
Judges expect a Clydesdale to look handsome, weighty and powerful, but with a gaiety of carriage and outlook, so that the impression is given of quality and weight, rather than grossness and bulk.
Still, it all adds to the gaiety of office life. Times, Sunday Times
Lars enjoyed the warmth and gaiety of these occasions.
Well," said Miriam, with a little laugh, which was not exactly the light effervescence of gaiety, "your people, if they love one another, say so outright, without any roundaboutness. Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers
His movie is like a cork bobbing amiably on waves of lightness and unforced gaiety.
_mirth_ it may be derived from _uaim-mir_, i.e. loud mirth, gaiety. Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
The Sikh community of the twin cities celebrated Baisakhi with religious fervour and gaiety here on Wednesday.
Music embraces and releases the soul, giving a sense of peace, comfort and gaiety. Dr T.P.Chia
Mrs Moore sat with Lily's pale hand in hers and talked with desperate gaiety about the coming of spring.
His exuberance, gaiety and intelligence made him many friends and his irrepressible high spirits and disregard for authority sometimes strained the patience of his tolerant and long suffering housemaster.
But what touched her was the serenity, even gaiety of his old age—“Being always perfectly happy, he had a charm about him”—and his fondness for disconcertingly simpleminded jokes, something he had always shared more readily with colleagues than he could with his own family “Kill Sydenstricker!” went a favorite one-liner passed round the missionaries of North Kiangsu. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
Her manner professed a gaiety that she did not feel.
There was an emptiness in her that did not fit with the gaiety and laughter that had greeted them. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Everybody has been pleased and amused, except the two clergymen who are here, and who have begun a course of sermons against what they call a destructive torrent of worldly gaiety. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert
This doesn’t surprise, since Lubitch’s stamp of forced gaiety is all over this gilded fabergé egg of a film chronicling Catherine the Great (Tallulah Bankhead) as she seduces a young army officer (William Eythe). 2009 June : Scrubbles.net
The sun shined onto the earth, relighting it with gaiety and radiance.
Her manner professed a gaiety that she did not feel.
Their melancholy expressions are at odds with the theatrical gaiety of their attire.
The evening went on with such joyous gaiety that no one present would soon forget it.
It all adds to the gaiety of nations etc, except our interest in Italy pretty well begins and ends there. Times, Sunday Times
The Gaiety, Marshalls Amusements and another arcade all applied for planning permission and got it, but can go no further with the project until the Government makes a decision over licences.
Overall, the match was not such as to add to the gaiety of nations. Times, Sunday Times
Life consisted mostly of enjoying the gaiety of a people being liberated after five years of occupation.
But he would much rather be on the boat, facing aliens, monsters, and just plain bad guys, than facing the cheerfulness and gaiety of another Christmas season.
It all makes for the gaiety of life, sells books, builds radio audiences. Times, Sunday Times
So little of the fop; yet so elegant and rich in his dress: his person so specious: his air so intrepid: so much meaning and penetration in his face: so much gaiety, yet so little affectation; no mere toupet-man; but all manly; and his courage and wit, the one so known, the other so dreaded, you must think the petits-maîtres Clarissa Harlowe
From 1871 the Royal Theatre was rivalled by the Gaiety.
Her artificial gaiety disguised an inner sadness.
To measure its attractions one must recall the brilliancy and eloquence of Diderot; the wit, the taste, the learning, the courtly accomplishments of Grimm; the gaiety and originality of d'Holbach, who had "read everything and forgotten nothing interesting;" the sparkling conversation of the most finished and scholarly diplomats in Europe, many of whom we have already met at the dinners of Mme. Geoffrin. The Women of the French Salons
If he wants to be danced, we see that he has discovered that gaiety is exhilarating to us; if he refuses to be moved, we take notice that he fears to fatigue us. Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
The gaiety surrounding Durga puja has universal appeal with people from every community participating in the festivities.
She sought solitude, and avoided us when in gaiety and unrestrained affection we met in a family circle. I.10
Time for celebration, festivities, gaiety, food, drink, laughter… oh, that's Christmas Eve.
On leave, many of your men gravitate towards the Piccadilly neighbourhood, where, despite the black-out, rationing and high prices, a certain spirituous gaiety is still achieved, but this is more likely to lower the bank account than to raise the view of the earnestness of our war-effort. Dunkirk to Dieppe and Beyond
It was the epoch of the salons, of the philosophers and encyclopaedists, of a brilliant society whose decadence was hidden in a garb of seductive gaiety, its egotism and materialism in a magnificent apparelling of wit and learning. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
His meanness lost its gaiety and took on a purposive quality. FAMILY PICTURES
His gaiety was undamped, his generosity unchilled; and though the space which had intervened between our parting and reunion was but brief, yet at the period of life at which we were, even a shorter interval than that of three years has frequently served to form or DEform a character. The Purcell Papers
That the score is so delicious only adds to the gaiety of this bel canto bromance. Times, Sunday Times
I am sorry to hurt any man's feelings, and to brush away the magnificent fabric of levity and gaiety that he has reared; but I accuse our minister of honesty and diligence; I deny that he is careless of rash.
You can imagine yourself in a stifling ballroom in Calcutta, full of feverish gaiety, while punkahs languidly stir the air.
By the end of lunch, the conversation had put back on its veneer reflection of gaiety and jolliness.
This externalisation removes all sense of the latent, and, by extension, the disturbing, licensing the audience to observe this play's gaiety and poignancies without being perpetually wary of killjoy provisos.
Event Management, as a profession, is gaining increasing relevance what with the intension of the people to conduct functions, including marriages and school functions, with pomp and gaiety.
Sun and privacy shading is provided by textile screens which add to the general gaiety and variety of the composition.
If at such scenes she was seen for an instant, she appeared to behold them with the composed indifference of one to whom their gaiety was a matter of no interest, and who seemed only desirous to glide away from the scene as soon as she possibly could. The Monastery
Both these ceremonies were soul-stirring affairs marked by pomp and gaiety.
She could hear the laughter and gaiety in the hall, and she felt like dancing about the room. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
there was a note of gaiety in her manner
Beyond them a very elderly cardinal looked up from his solitary meal as though annoyed by their gaiety. PROSECUTOR
She brought him a sense of fun, of gaiety that filled a gap in his life.
Its priceless monthly bulletins will continue to add to the gaiety of nations.
Life and crime are games to these characters, and they vacillate between childish gaiety and immoderate violence.
Me, I think he adds to the gaiety of nations. Times, Sunday Times
As for Catriona, she seemed quite carried away; her laugh was like a peal of bells, her face gay as a May morning; and I own, although I was well pleased, yet I was a little sad also, and thought myself a dull, stockish character in comparison of my friend, and very unfit to come into a young maid's life, and perhaps ding down her gaiety. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
Earrings made of black metal with American diamonds embedded, chains made of gunmetal, coral and jade and pearl bangles add to the gaiety.
His son seems weaker in his understanding, and more gay in his temper; but his gaiety is that of a foolish, overgrown school-boy, whose mirth consists in noise and disturbance. Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
She brought him a sense of fun, of gaiety that filled a gap in his life.
Parisian gaiety, which some French historian of the siege calls douce philosophie, lingering on him still, he said, audibly, turning round to any stranger who heard: "Happiest of mortals that we are! The Parisians — Complete
It stood in stark contrast to the gaiety and celebration of the previous day at Lake Burley Griffin.
There were besides mirrors on the other three walls of the room, all hung with such careful intent for the exercise of their vocation that the apartment, in spots, extended indefinitely; the brilliant chandelier was thereby quadrupled, and the furniture and ornaments multiplied everywhere and most unexpectedly into twins and triplets, producing such sociabilities among them, and forcing such correspondences between inanimate objects with such hospitable insistence, that the effect was full of gaiety and life, although the interchange in reality was the mere repetition of one original, a kind of phonographic echo. Balcony Stories
He would never sense the spirit, the gaiety in courting a young damsel.
Farren was one of the daintiest and most graceful little creatures ever seen on the stage, with a gaminerie all her own, I, in common with many other youths, sat in the stalls of the Gaiety wrapped in The Days Before Yesterday
The 30 comedies that he composed after his return to Paris reveal an art capable of admitting serious and even tragic experience without sacrificing the laughter, gaiety, and exuberance proper to comedy.
Earrings made of black metal with American diamonds embedded, chains made of gunmetal, coral and jade and pearl bangles add to the gaiety.
But after that, she declined into a fog of faux gaiety; of endless tedium alleviated by white-trash boyfriends, spongers, snobs and poseurs.
The fact that Griffin's pranks occur during Whit Monday adds a humorous irony to a day of celebration and gaiety.
Young people there exude gaiety and mirth, for who could be cynical about love in Italy while thinking of Shakespeare's play?
However, towards that fly a fishing-boat was already darting with the swiftness of a water beetle, and causing its two oars to show quiveringly red and grey, while from the marshier of the two banks there began hastily to put out a second boat which leapt in the steamer’s wash with the gaiety of a young calf. Through Russia
Orlando undertook the defence of his sister with more zeal than prudence; but Mrs Rayland, though not to be convinced that Isabella was not a vain coquet, which indeed her unguarded gaiety gave the old Lady very good reason to believe, was however in a humour to be pleased with all Orlando said. The Old Manor House
On all sides they trip along, buoyed up by animal spirits, and seemingly so void of care, that often, when I am walking on the _Boulevards_, it occurs to me, that they alone understand the full import of the term leisure; and they trifle their time away with such an air of contentment, I know not how to wish them wiser at the expence of their gaiety. Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
I took leave of him with regret. his gaiety is inoffensive, & our intimacy at Lisbon created many ideas & associations which he only partakes. this evening he will be at Bath; & I hope my mothers affairs will now be settled comfortably; the plan of settling them once fixed, I expect her here. Letter 247
On first seeing these works, the viewer is overtaken by a sense of gaiety and joyfulness.
To remedy society Indulge not to satiety In mirth and shameless gaiety. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
Christmas even in more modern times has not always been remembered with gaiety and good cheer.
There is a sort of gaiety and fun that there wasn't before. Times, Sunday Times
Wishing to renounce none of her former luxuries, she insisted upon keeping her salon as in former days, trying to conceal her poverty by her gaiety; but it was a sorrowful case of _la misere doree_. Women in the Life of Balzac
Mrs Moore sat with Lily's pale hand in hers and talked with desperate gaiety about the coming of spring.
And these hapless people whose gaiety at first had been so peaceful, at length belaboured each other soundly.
He made his first professional stage appearance in George Bernard Shaw's ‘The Devil's Disciple’ at the Gaiety Theatre.
He is one of those people who add to the gaiety of nations, at least, and we must wish him well. Times, Sunday Times
All my cousins and aunts and uncles got together in my grandfather's house and we all spent this day together with traditional gaiety and tons of happiness.
They crooned lengthy dumkas, folk songs in which sadness and gaiety mingled freely.
Lacy continued, indeed, in nominal observance of his vow, to dwell in a pavilion by the gates of Gloucester; but he seldom donned his armour, substituted costly damask and silk for his war-worn shamois doublet, and affected at his advanced time of life more gaiety of attire than his contemporaries remembered as distinguishing his early youth. The Betrothed
That the score is so delicious only adds to the gaiety of this bel canto bromance. Times, Sunday Times
So it was nice to be invited to the jollity and gaiety of a wedding for once instead of being summonsed to a cremation.
I heard gaiety and merriment, and then we reached the fire.
Pomp, pageantry and gaiety ran riot making the atmosphere electric.
In the islands in the Seine between Chatou and Port-Marly, on the banks of Sartrouville and Triel he was long noted among the population of boatmen, who have now vanished, for his unwearying biceps, his cynical gaiety of goodfellowship, his unfailing practical jokes, his broad witticisms. Une Vie
And these hapless people whose gaiety at first had been so peaceful, at length belaboured each other soundly.
Richie, who starred as Buttons in the smash-hit pantomime Cinderella, at the Gaiety Theatre, will perform tracks from his album with a nine-piece band.
a shrill gaiety
That the score is so delicious only adds to the gaiety of this bel canto bromance. Times, Sunday Times
Well, this is Paris, M-G-M – a fantasy world of charm and merriment, and of that fabled "Lubitsch touch," which implied charm, provocative circuitousness and gaiety, combined with a slightly bittersweet awareness that all happiness is transient – but isn't it swell while it lasts! The Awful Truth Gives Michael Moore a New Channel, and Some New Targets
Their gaiety was infectious, and I mentally ticked myself off for my patronizing response to the club. DEAD BEAT
His hands were on my shoulders, and he was laughing down on me from his full height, with a kind of mortally-stricken gaiety that drove the knife into my side. The Eyes
He adds to the gaiety of nations. Times, Sunday Times
However, towards that fly a fishing-boat was already darting with the swiftness of a water beetle, and causing its two oars to show quiveringly red and grey, while from the marshier of the two banks there began hastily to put out a second boat which leapt in the steamer's wash with the gaiety of a young calf. Through Russia
In short, that agreeable turn, that gaiety, which yet maintains the delicacy of its character, without falling into dulness or into buffoonery; that elegant raillery, which is the flower of fine wit, is the qualification which comedy requires. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
The Gaiety is reviving John B. Kean's comedy "The Man from Clare".
Surely there was gaiety in summer, but for now, gray titmice moved close to the ground, almost silent, probably killing the insects who only wanted to sleep until spring.
I think he has added to the gaiety of the nation. The Sun
On first seeing these works, the viewer is overtaken by a sense of gaiety and joyfulness.
Pomp, pageantry and gaiety ran riot making the atmosphere electric.
Within two or three hours' sail of Glasgow one could find an almost pristine solitude of purple heather and solemn crags all unprofaned by watering-place gaiety or luxury.
It is constructed in an access of investigative gaiety: 'What fun! The Times Literary Supplement

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