Holiday times also foster high expectations for love, connection, joy, gifts and good cheer.
Helen was emblematic of New Orleans a radiant bundle of energy, creativity and good cheer.
But is that true, or is good cheer simply an easier attitude to handle?
Be of good cheer and share it with your friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, and customers.
That good cheer emanates to customers, customers buy more and come more often, and everyone profits.
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But both showed good cheer at the Stade de France on Wednesday, where Germany won 2-1.
And when it comes to their famous reputation for hospitality and good cheer, the Irish outdid themselves.
Though the class is intense, there are moments of good cheer and camaraderie.
When the challenges are the greatest, they spend their time radiating good cheer.
In prison now, busy as ever, distributing good cheer and preaching Christian virtue to the inmates, Bernie seems a happy man.
How long his critics' good cheer lasts will depend on what he says and does before taking power on February 2nd.
Although Mr Cameron set out to spread good cheer this week, an infrastructure push will cause pain before it yields widespread benefits.
For all the good cheer generated by the gold medals, the party is clearly nervous of the slightest challenge to its authority.
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Some of the best Christmas films are comedies that are not exactly family-friendly fare, and that even bend the concept of traditional holiday good cheer.
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Decades later, she endeared herself to baby boomers all over again after she announced in 1992 that she had multiple sclerosis and began grappling with the slow, degenerative effects with remarkably good cheer and faith.
What potency there is comes from the characters who refuse to be gripped by good cheer Don John, played by Keanu Reeves as a pinup with malice, and Don Pedro, played by Denzel Washington, whose cool gravity shames the rest of the movie.
For the next 17 days, more than six million normally prim and sober citizens from every country in the world will descend upon the Theresienwiese festival grounds (Wiesn, for short) to guzzle towering mugs of beer and engage in good cheer and outright debauchery.
There is a scene, arguably meant to be amusing, where Jackie (Chadwick Boseman) and his wife (Nicole Beharie) are approached by a white man and the young couple braces for a violent assault only to be greeted with good cheer from a fan.
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As well as lower American interest rates, there have been other bits of (apparently) good news to cheer.
She used her chairs as stands for large photographs and posters, as shelves for vases, and sometimes as hangers for dresses, because the sight of good clothes never failed to cheer her up.
The fans really can be the extra man and if there's a good turnout at Meadow Lane they can cheer us to victory.
Good news on the demographic front is always something to cheer.
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But good work by Danny Graham gave Watford manager Malky Mackay something to cheer about, when his shot was not held by David James, allowing Cowie a simple finish.
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