She saw a therapist while a teenager, her mother said, but recovered her cheerfulness when she went to college.

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What they also have in common is a resolute cheerfulness in the face of annoying questions about how much longer a recovery is going to take.

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He showed up for work in war plans every day with the same cheerfulness, intelligence, and effort that had marked his entire decades-long service in the Army.

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Like Reagan, he has a basic cheerfulness and Midwestern equanimity.

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Neither of these trends has been shown to foster cheerfulness.

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Just before World War II, Ike showed up for work in war plans every day with the same cheerfulness, intelligence, and effort that had marked his entire decades-long service in the Army.

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It is centered on exceptionally accommodating customer services that sees its mission as spreading cheerfulness in the belief that its customers want to own its culture as much as they do its brands.

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The song mixes life's trials with carefree cheerfulness.

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As such, I was intrigued by a NY Times article about the British fast food chain Pret A Manger which hires, pays, and promotes employees on qualities like cheerfulness, not just pure performance.

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And when his unease led him to play the entertainer she would monitor, in that discreet way of hers, my reactions to his forced cheerfulness or, if he could bear it no longer, to his silences.

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Hence the prime minister's cheerfulness this week.

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