How To Use Joyous In A Sentence

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. Erich Fromm
His love-making is passionate and impulsive, joyous almost to rowdyism. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
The finale is a joyous fantasia on much of the music deployed earlier with such skill and evident delight.
He thought within himself what she could mean by this, and yet, wishing to obey her, he began in joyous mood, "O vernalis rosula. The Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself.
Not Age but Youth of centuries smiles from gray walls and aery pinnacles upon the joyous children of To-day. The Invader A Novel

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The morrice dancers accordingly set out upon their further progress, dancing and carolling as they went along to the sound of four musicians, who led the joyous band, while Simon Glover drew their coryphaeus into his house, and placed him in a chair by his parlour fire. The Fair Maid of Perth
She is frisky and good humoured like a bouncy Labrador, gushing with anecdotes punctuated by a laugh, which is a cross between a joyous cackle and a happy crow.
Having again experienced, in November 2006, the joy and emotion of the personal and blessed participation of Your Holiness in the patronal feast of Constantinople, the commemoration of the St. Andrew the Apostle, the First Called, I set out "with a joyous step" from Fener in the New Rome, to come to you to participate in your joy in the patronal feast of Old Rome. Archive 2008-06-29
He was cheered to the echo and, a trifle remarkably, joyously, and continually, waved to the thousands who were acclaiming him.
The finale featured solo turns by some of Glover's student devotees, young and old, and a joyous shim-sham dance by the entire cast.
She had made their childhood so joyous and carefree.
This “new set of clackers,” as Dahl joyously described them, still left a “tidy hunk” for the RAF,72 but they were a source of great pleasure to their owner, who believed that in most cases real teeth were more trouble than they were worth. Storyteller
His crunching forehand winner on the last point sent him on a joyous, leaping celebration, and with lucrative reason. Times, Sunday Times
For lovers of forgotten Romantic symphonies, this is a treat, even if the interpretations could have been a bit more joyous and the orchestral playing more refulgent.
Now jump!" cried Niels; and with one joyous "halloo" the children were on the broad, springy plank, enjoying to the utmost this novel pleasure. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878
A wonderful, joyous mouth that could laugh and grin and smile in a hundred expressions of precious, life-giving mirth.
Fortunately, while studying in Delhi University I fell in with a crowd of cultured Bengalis, who educated me step by joyous step.
On the other hand, there are some joyous anti-broon reports in the press - such as this one from the Independent: Turkey Sandwich Post
Alongside joyous hallelujahs, we find religious nationalism: Let the praises of God be in their throat and a two-edged sword in their hand; to wreak vengeance on the nations 149:6-7a. John Backman: Praying The Most Difficult Psalms
My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons in music, dance, and dramatics, and the thrill of sojourns in the country, theaters, concerts.
But it's in their forties or fifties that many people also experience a unique moment of joyous relief. Times, Sunday Times
His Masonic music has a distinctive tone, solemn yet exalted and often joyous.
It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain a quittance from the past. Les Miserables
Her voice was brimming over with joyous laughter.
Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just the sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant sprinted after the ball, which Lamar Odom joyously flung downcourt to burn the remaining seconds in Game 7 of the NBA finals. Lakers Win NBA Championship With Big Comeback Over Celtics
Is it the squattocracy joyously celebrating the fact that the working man's club has been knocked back in its place, by it doesn't matter who?
Browning laid the scene of his poem in Germany, save perhaps the use of such words as "thorp" and "croft," but there is a clean, pure morning light playing through the verse, a fresh, health-breathing northern air, which does not fit in with Italy; a joyous, buoyant youthfulness in the song and march of the students who carry their master with gay strength up the mountain to the very top, all of them filled with his aspiring spirit, all of them looking forward with gladness and vigour to life -- which has no relation whatever to the temper of Florentine or The Poetry Of Robert Browning
The fire was thrown to a great height; the fountains and jets all wallowed together; new ones appeared, and danced joyously round the margin, then converging towards the centre they merged into one glowing mass, which upheaved itself pyramidally and disappeared with a vast plunge. The Hawaiian Archipelago
After having thus repeated the neck three times, and wee yen, or way yen as often, they all burst out into a kind of loud and joyous laugh, flinging up their hats and caps into the air, capering about and perhaps kissing the girls. Chapter 47. Lityerses. § 4. The Corn-spirit slain in his Human Representatives
For those who have put off their shopping till the very last minute, designer-wear ready-mades are ideal to help celebrate the joyous festival in fashion.
Many of us younger ravers missed out on the joyousness of the all-night party scene.
When word came down of a judge's ruling that gays could serve openly in the military, an Air Force officer received joyous congratulations from a comrade. Pentagon To Gay Troops: Stay Silent Or Trouble Could Find You
The joyous soul, charioted from pleasure to pleasure by the graceful mechanism of well-formed limbs, will suddenly feel the axle-tree give way, and spring and wheel dissolve in dust. The Last Man
The spoofiness level of the company's offerings varies: Some shows are just joyous, anything-goes-for-a-laugh evenings, others are a bit more serious or represent a genuine homage. Westword | Complete Issue
Ignore those joyous festive celebrations constantly on telly. The Sun
It is also fair to say that I paid a heavy price for joining in with the joyous scenes. The Sun
And joyous laughter echoed and re-echoed around the room and rolled over the city, lifting the hearts of the multitudes.
For that joyous moment of redemption, you could forget Cook. The Sun
The former England wicketkeeper, 40, took a stunning one-handed effort to see off the Somerset danger man Kieron Pollard before embarking on some joyous celebrations. Leicestershire victory was written in the stars, says Paul Nixon
Thinking of you at Christmas with a wish that is warm and sincere.Have a wonderful Christmas andjoyous New Year!
It can be a fascinating and joyous thing as well, the coming together of different cultures.
So when he was houseled and aneled, and had all that a Christian man ought to have, he prayed the hermit that his fellows might bear his body to Joyous Garde.
This is truly a joyous time. Congratulations and good luck.
Mrs. Dods put on a joyous countenance at this proposal, protesting that all should be done in her power to make things agreeable; and while her good friend, Mr. Bindloose, expatiated upon the comfort her new guest would experience at the Cleikum, she silently contemplated with delight the prospect of a speedy and dazzling triumph, by carrying off a creditable customer from her showy and successful rival at the Well. Saint Ronan's Well
He is at his splenetic best when rubbishing Auden's poetry, a subject he joyously returns to again and again.
Amy had expected one of his bright smiles, a twinkle in the eye, and a joyous ‘yes’; she didn't expect him to sidetrack the conversation completely.
It packed a powerful, joyous wallop, delivering all the things one hoped to find in music: The thrill of the new, the excitement of the unexpected, a galvanizing groove, and lyrics that actually said something.
But when does joyous, mantric reiteration tip over into something more sinister, or worse, monotonous?
You are about to enter one of the most joyous and happy periods of this year for your sign.
It was a joyous occasion for them, as a sizeable crowd watched and cheered them.
Setup is joyously simple, and DVD performance is good, if not spectacular, but the sound is anaemic, lacking sufficient detail for music and serious clout for movies.
The women were low-spirited, dull, nay, peevish, they did not well know why; and the men could not be joyous, though the ready resource of old hock and champagne made some of them talkative. — Saint Ronan's Well
The joyous screams, the gleeful yelps, and a happy, wagging tail added life to the peaceful, gentle beach.
Quarrelsome drosky drivers, incongruous mills, and the thousand trumperies of the place, were all forgotten in the perfect beauty of the scene — in the full, the joyous realisation of my ideas of Niagara. The Englishwoman in America
In his joyous caracole round the lists, the attention of the Prince was called by the commotion, not yet subsided, which had attended the ambitious movement of Isaac towards the higher places of the assembly. Ivanhoe
Good, young red Rioja like this, made exclusively from the Tempranillo grape, can and does deliver a joyous light, zesty, plummy, intriguingly chocolatey mouthful.
Upon reaching the unimaginably elegant and tranquil village, our visual senses were overwhelmed by verdant and lush hills, slender young bamboos, stout-aged pines, and two joyous streams.
There was an arrangement of Coltrane's "Moment's Notice" with Chestnut spinning droplets of notes over the percussive chuff of the violins and the bass-like thumping of the cello; a joyous rendition of Clapton's "Crossroads"; and Marshall's bass mandolin, down-home-sounding version of "Gator Strut. In performance: Turtle Island Quartet at 25
But they burned in so great charity that they cast and threw away their arms and harness, and kneeling on their knees received sufferably with a joyous heart the swords of them that martyred them, among whom Maurice, embraced in the love and faith of Jesu Christ, received the crown of martyrdom. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
I take the mandolin from the wall and do a few strums in joyous celebration.
In Mozart's joyous opera, fidelity is tested, emotions are betrayed and lovers deceived when a cynical gentleman challenges two fiancés to a bet.
Another door opened beneath the king, and a priest, followed by a band of choristers, and dancing maidens blowing joyous airs on golden horns and treading an epithalamic measure, advanced to where the pair stood side by side, and the wedding was promptly and cheerily solemnized. Short Stories for English Courses
They joyously flitted from branch to branch, swooping down occasionally from the skies like wind-blown flowers falling off the trees.
Thinking of you at Christmas with a wish that is warm and sincere.Have a wonderful Christmas andjoyous New Year!
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)
However, please forgive my teasing, for I am in an unconquerably joyous mood.
After forty-five years of the playless life of a serf to blighting seriousness, the wonder is that sourness had not entered to hopelessly curdle all chances for joyous living. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
The whole point of recovery is that you let go of all that and that you are a happy, joyous and free person. Times, Sunday Times
The joyous soldiers prepared to sail home as they imagined the celebrations in their honor.
The very conception of truth was a new one, as a goddess not to be shielded behind the shades of hierophantic mystery, but rather to be sought in the free tumult and joyous strife of many voices, there vindicating her own majesty and marking her own children. Voltaire
But the greetings and the "brigandage" were soon over, and in good time they were all assembled in the Doyle flat, where the joyous Major had prepared an elaborate dinner to celebrate the return of the wanderers. Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
Presently Rowena returned, all ablush with joyous excitement, and begged for a rereading of the letter.
Thinking of you at Christmas with a wish that is warm and sincere.Have a wonderful Christmas andjoyous New Year!
Some of the men broke ranks in a furious gallop to the river where they gulped water in joyous abandon.
Every spring there comes a moment when you hear the joyous song of a bird and you rejoice with it that spring has arrived.
Thinking of you at Christmas with a wish that is warm and sincere.Have a wonderful Christmas andjoyous New Year!
And the announcement prompted a joyous outpouring of good wishes from fans all over the country. The Sun
The committee wish all our supporters a very happy Christmas and a joyous New Year.
There is a joyous incandescence in the harmonies, a playful energy and a richness of colouration.
Carve the happiness(joyousness) in the stone, and, write the sadness in the sand.
Her claim that 9/11 widows are "harpies" and "witches" that joyously revel in their husbands 'deaths is so inhuman that it makes me depressed just to repeat it. I will rearrange your scales, if I can
After an impassioned and joyous love affair, she severed their relationship in the late 1880s.
the sudden bad news damped the joyous atmosphere
In a terrible moment, the joyous closeness of Thanksgiving changed to the empty loss of death. Christianity Today
One picture in that book, of a joyous naked child arching through the sky in front of a celestial city, remains my earliest image of heaven.
But when the narrator is good, the whole experience can be transportingly joyous. Times, Sunday Times
With a few years his name was synonymous with joyously unnecessary inventions. Times, Sunday Times
Or is it a joyous message about beauty in the face of deprivation? Times, Sunday Times
And the removal of the cruel whip-hand, or in other words the bulldozing half-breed, had brought with it a joyous reaction. In a Far Country
We larked as recklessly, as boisterously, as joyously, Patrick and me, for a few brief weeks that summer, and when I shut my eyes I hear us larking still. Obituary
The result is a rising tide of neglect, cruelty, sadism, and joyous malignity that staggers and appalls me.
But mostly, as you might expect, this is a joyous love-in.
They turned a stern test of horse and rider into a joyous gavotte of simple beauty. Times, Sunday Times
Here was faith, religion and spirituality that was manifesting itself as joyous, life affirming and uplifting, as opposed to militant, oppressive and death-dealing.
Thinking of you at Christmas with a wish that is warm and sincere.Have a wonderful Christmas andjoyous New Year!
The patrolmen broke into joyous jubilation, some even crying tears of happiness.
All the great cities and towns throughout the country entered with joyous spirit into the peace celebrations, while villages and hamlets, too, had their rejoicing and peals of bells.
It is still radiantly decorated and is a strangely joyous place as if its 15th Century creators wanted to depict the ecstasies of heaven that awaited those who had died.
Is she really a natural-born celebrator, joyous and outgoing at every turn?
I could hear rain, music, my wife sleeping and the joyous yaps of a cat.
Many of us younger ravers missed out on the joyousness of the all-night party scene.
This one was celebrated with joyous frugging in the pre-Star-Trek "space opera" Raumpatrouille ( "Space Patrol," 1965-1966). - Boing Boing
days of joyous recreation with his friends
The first decennia after the return of the exiles, during which they were occupied in adjusting themselves to their new homes, were passed under a variety of adverse circumstances and by no means either in joyousness or security. Prolegomena
The Finale is also merry and joyous in keeping with the whole spirit of the work.
It is a joyous celebration of complementarity, and of diversity, too. RIDDLE ME THIS
This was followed by a another exceptional item ‘thillana’, which is a joyous dance with delicate foot movements and sculpturesque poses.
Spiky string figures contrasted with plangent cello before a joyous hoedown of a climax. Times, Sunday Times
Both had made plans to return home for the winter, expecting their homecoming to be something joyous.
Here one walks beside deep, grassy trenches, which appear to continue without end, along the forest level; farther, the wild mint and the centaurea perfume the shady nooks, the oaks and lime-trees arch their spreading branches, and the honeysuckle twines itself round the knotty shoots of the hornbeam, whence the thrush gives forth her joyous, sonorous notes. The French Immortals Series — Complete
The text message pinged joyously around players' friends and family. Times, Sunday Times
Then he went into the room, where his family had assembled, with joyous heart and shining face, and raising both hands, and lifting his eyes heavenward, exclaimed, "_We have overcome, we have overcome_. The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer
My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons in music, dance, and dramatics, and the thrill of sojourns in the country, theaters, concerts.
Because of that, it is called “the attainment of a first-level bhumi mind, ‘extremely joyous,’ or a pathway mind of seeing.” Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Unawareness �� Part Four: Enhancing Your Practice
Traditional music fans might like to take note of a new CD titled ‘Fortune Favours The Merry’, an album of joyous, uncontrived music on fiddle and flute from two musicians with a lot of talent and experience.
Every sweet summer morning Alice would jump out of bed, and her mother would throw the window open, letting in the delicious perfume from the strawberry bed next door, and the joyous _morning hymns_ of the little birds, and then, if Lillie had come all at once, 'midst the songs of the birds, a small clear musical voice would be heard, singing (for she made a little song of it) -- "Al -- _lie_! Baby Nightcaps
He smirked joyously, savouring every moment of my suffering.
My friend Jeff Z. Klein at the New York Times put together a classic post, showing clips of fan reactions to the win all over the country - and the chants of "U.S.A." to my ear, at least here in Germany, sounded happy and joyous, of course, but also with a kind of growling heavy-handedness. Steve Kettmann: Donovan's Amazing Feat: Making U.S. One With the Rest of the World
In all, these joyous events serve to prepare the human spirit for the arrival of the Christ Savior.
I take the mandolin from the wall and do a few strums in joyous celebration.
The logo on the flag a reminder of one of the most joyous celebrations in the history of golf. The Sun
She opened the door for me and threw herself in my arms, screaming joyously and demanding that we decorate the tree immediately.
He smirked joyously, savouring every moment of my suffering.
We were making an entry of somebody's chickens at a store door in the village just mentioned, one August day, when a familiar "hillo!" reached our ear, and turning round, we perceived, some twenty yards off, the quizzical face of our old friend, projecting over the fore-gate of his wagon, and puckered into five hundred little wrinkles as he cachinnated joyously -- Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor. With a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley
It involved, on one side, gratification of the self through a joyous and contented life. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
We see scene after scene of the handsome, upbeat, stiff-spined troubadour singing truth to power and joyously quipping in period interviews. Michael Simmons: Phil Ochs Lives!
So some critics have suggested that the story ‘of pure and primitive emotion, unclouded by any religious or moral quality’ was really inspired by a brief but joyous engagement in 1906.
The evening went on with such joyous gaiety that no one present would soon forget it.
He is at his splenetic best when rubbishing Auden's poetry, a subject he joyously returns to again and again.
It is true that he does not interpret between the brain and music, but he is able to disimprison sound, as no one has ever done with mortal hands, and the piano, when he touches it, becomes a joyous, disembodied thing, a voice and nothing more, but a voice which is music itself. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory
It is a joyous time of year, a time for rebirth, redemption and the hope of romance.
Rust may not sleep, but it accrues over time, transforming the once joyous mosher who imagined himself as the fifth Replacement into a creaky old rocker that is just one pony-tail short of a cartoon that draws itself. Bonnaroo: Visions of My Morning Jacket (and Disco Naps on the Grass) - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
I would like to wish you a joyous new year and express my hope for your happiness and good future.
Under a glass bowl there is a cup of tea and a madeleine cookie and the guide explains how Proust as a grown man dipped the madeleine into the tea and recalled his joyous summers in Combray.
In every great aggregation of workers, the faces of the underfed are a little paler and the pulses of the children beat a little less joyously, and the feet are hastened on that journey to the tomb -- all because of those who come to steal and to kill and to destroy. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little
Despite the many indignities the Liberty crew has been subjected to, the mood in Visalia was pronouncedly a joyous one of Better (42 years) Late Than Never. Navy Vet Honored, Foiled Israeli Attack
In all, these joyous events serve to prepare the human spirit for the arrival of the Christ Savior.
BLITHE X CHEERLESS Meaning: Gay, joyous Usage: Shelley called skylark a blithe spirit because of its happy song. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
I would like to wish you a joyous new year and express my hope for your happiness and good future.
Wright's daughter Elizabeth Gainey sang an acapella chorus of Walk Around Heaven All Day, and then the band led a joyous second-line parade away from the scene. Another day at Jazz Fest ends on a high note
The sound of their beautiful voices singing their joyous prayers, telling the story of Chek Chek and reiterating their simple creeds, followed us on our descent.
They caught him just under the dressing room and engulfed him in joyous scenes. Times, Sunday Times
Such camaraderie is displayed publicly in their joyous goal celebrations, sharing the moment and the glory. Times, Sunday Times
So might this hypnotic, janglingly joyous painting, which at once distances itself from the astringent purism of New York's anti-nature abstractionists and predicts the way ahead, be a case of the pupil prophesying the master?
To see Louie, a 6-year-old vizsla, joyously bounding around, one would be hard pressed to know he spent the first four years of his life in terror. The Seattle Times
He is , for me: sigh , prayer, joyousness.
The “Roos,” as they are called in this agricultural and military city of fifty thousand near Fort Hood, were joined at the 30-yard line by cheerleaders, drill team Kangarettes, drummers, tuba players, and fans of all ages, several hundred Friday night victors gathered in a joyous semicircle under the blackland prairie moon. Into the Story
I thoroughly recommend that you make your way to Wimbledon and see this production before it moves on, if you want a joyous technicolored evening out.
The text message pinged joyously around players' friends and family. Times, Sunday Times
Its central atrium is literally breathtaking, a joyous paean of luminous space, with which the office floors engage in terraces, balconies and platforms.
The ensuing Allegro is a joyous rush that seems rather molto vivace - and ends in a rather strange muddle of instruments for several bars.
It was a very happy and joyous occasion and all went off very well.
Tertullian refers to the period, which he called the Pentecost, as a laetissimum spatium, a "most joyous space" in which it is especially fitting that baptisms take place. Internetmonk.com
This was a gutsier and more expressive design language, joyously sifting through architectural history to incorporate styles. Times, Sunday Times
It involved, on one side, gratification of the self through a joyous and contented life. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
He was sitting at a supper-table smoking a cigarette, and gazing somewhat sadly -- it seemed to me -- at the pandemoniac phantasmagoria of screaming dancers, the glittering cosmopolitan chaos that multiplied itself riotously in the mirrored walls of the great flaring ball-room, where under-dressed women, waving many-coloured paper lanterns, rode on the shoulders of grotesquely clad men prancing to joyous music. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
Rather than joyous abandon, I am full of thought.
Meanwhile, at home the widow walked the floor in restless, joyous anticipation, or went to the door and strained her eyes up the road to watch for Traverse, and perhaps for some one else's coming. The Hidden Hand
He had, when young for English public life, attained to high office; but -- partly from a great distaste to the drudgery of administration; partly from a pride of temperament, which unfitted him for the subordination that a Cabinet owes to its chief; partly, also, from a not uncommon kind of epicurean philosophy, at once joyous and cynical, which sought the pleasures of life and held very cheap its honours -- he had obstinately declined to re-enter office, and only spoke on rare occasions. Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 04
When they came to the valley, they found it beautiful exceedingly and passing all degree; and birds on tree sang joyously and the mocking-nightingale trilled out her melody, and the cushat filled with her moan the mansions made by the Deity, — And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It's big healthy hunks of wholesome home cooking served to a joyous family gathering.
On the front is a picture of a girl in mid joyous leap, and underneath the picture is the word "yippee" in huge letters. Sheepdip Diary Entry
It was the most surreal and joyous moment I've experienced. Times, Sunday Times
Clara Cullom ate joyously, with the appreciative discrimination of the clear-skinned, eupeptic human animal. The Apples of Hesperides, Kansas
He picks the naive approach and joyous colours and forms creating a montage of the flora, fauna and people of South Asia.
This joyous, soft, ripe, buttery Chardonnay with a pleasingly ripe nutty finish is a bargain at this price.
In Makarou they played calabashes ringed with cowrie shells, creating a wonderful sound to accompany this joyous, fast-paced dance.
They have to be joyous peasants, drunken students and evil spirits singing demonic gibberish.
Out of these commonplace elements, elements that one might almost call prosaic, Wagner wrought his picture of storm, with its terror, power, joyous laughter of the storm's daughters -- storm as it must have seemed to the first poets of our race. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas
I would like to wish you a joyous new year and express my hope for your happiness and good future.
My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons in music, dance, and dramatics, and the thrill of sojourns in the country, theaters, concerts.
The composition steps out of the deep, cool, enveloping pool of myrtle green, wades through the translucent, pale waters of lotus and finally explodes in a burst of joyous, floral pinkness of boronia... Aftelier Lumiere: Perfume Review
It was one of the most joyous moments of my life. Times, Sunday Times
Intellectual snobbery is so over, I chided myself, before launching into an orgy of sheer, joyous banality.
To those of you that already know me, this will simply be a joyous refresher of your cherished memories of me.
The meeting of father and son after so long was a joyous occasion.
Her body would spasm with joyous rapture at the mere thought of it.
The band is loose, joyous, ferocious: the sheer unneurotic emotional exultation is amazingly bracing today. All I Want For Christmas...
But in the hands of a master, the altered perceptions can be not only revelatory but joyous.
Then, amid joyous scenes, the players rode through the city on fire trucks. Times, Sunday Times
His crunching forehand winner on the last point sent him on a joyous, leaping celebration, and with lucrative reason. Times, Sunday Times
Quarrelsome drosky drivers, incongruous mills, and the thousand trumperies of the place, were all forgotten in the perfect beauty of the scene — in the full, the joyous realisation of my ideas of Niagara. The Englishwoman in America
In the morning, I found that the cause of all the rumpus was a marriage that had taken place in the hotel; and the master and mistress being happy, the servants caught the joyous infection, and got the children to share it with them. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
The Presto vivace Finale, however, finds our conductor in joyous vein throughout, with a strong sense of devilry bringing added exuberance to those key points where Schubert urges his forces in other directions.
Never had the garden looked more meetly set, never had the sun shone more genially, and the air impelled the blood and sent it coursing more joyously through his veins, than on that morning of the rejuvenescence of all his high ideals. Austin and His Friends
In the self-same hour it was that Zeus changed the radiant courses of the stars, the light of the sun, and the joyous face of dawn, and drave his car athwart the western sky with fervent heat from heaven's fires, while northward fled the rain-clouds, and Ammon's strand grew parched and faint and void of dew, when it was robbed of heaven's genial showers. Electra
_ -- "We can assure our readers who delight in mere joyous desipience that they will find a rich harvest of laughter in the purely irresponsible outpourings of Professor Leacock's fancy. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels
While it toyed with serious drama, Moulin Rouge is injected with joyous melodramatic fun.
He has already splashed joyously around glacial lakes in Norway. Times, Sunday Times
Daisies is a prime example of a film that typifies the Czech New Wave - anti-authoritarian, joyous, idealistic and brilliant.
Nothing binds a people more joyously than the shared sweat of effort towards a common goal.
But, thanks to cleanliness, to wholesome and sufficient food, to a calm and well-regulated life, to the pure, healthy air they breathe, the natural hues and the joyousness of youth soon reanimate the little faces; and with lithe, invigorated limbs, and happy hearts, these young creatures join merrily in the games of their new companions. Diamonds and Pearls
You can still seek out bands like Tyvek for joyous blasts of tuneless skronk, if that's your thing. All the Pretty Verses, Indie Style
It was a weak attempt to disguise the fluttering sensation in her stomach, the joyous pitter-patter of her heart, those oh-so confusing thoughts she found she didn't quite understand.
An exhibition in Moscow in 1992 was the scene of joyous reunion. Times, Sunday Times
It was a very joyous moment for me. Times, Sunday Times
My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons in music, dance, and dramatics, and the thrill of sojourns in the country, theaters, concerts.
The pancakes are a joyous combination of crusty, golden surfaces, the inside soft and creamy. Times, Sunday Times
The hall was full of the laughter of the courtiers and the joyous melody of the band.

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