gaiety
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He’s not as unapologetically hammy as Andrew Polec’s Pirelli, the tonsorial con man who adopts a fake mustache and an even faker Italian accent, but he lends the musical a satiric gaiety.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
The general gaiety of the show doesn’t mean the photos here are slight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
Just seven blocks over and five blocks up from where the shell casings hit the sidewalk, they gathered for gaiety in a glitzy ballroom.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2025
In 1842, the Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette wrote: "Such a scene of gaiety was never before witnessed on Salisbury Plain… Parties of gentlemen and elegantly dressed ladies were scattered about in all directions."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2023
The hilarious gaiety changed swiftly at the closing bars, and the drummer rattled his sticks in the inevitable prelude to God Save the King.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
The price tag for the gothic gaieties: $25,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
James Joyce had a lovely phrase in Finnegans Wake: "The hereweareagain gaieties."
From Time Magazine Archive
The enchantment of the terrace operates suddenly to make these people's glib and pessimistic gaieties, when turned to a parody of the past, rekindle its most significant moments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Until the night of the shooting there were very few people who thought that Stanford White was overfond of gaieties.
From Time Magazine Archive
Potatoes, I suppose, and chickens, and dogs, and pigs—" "Exactly—and, believe me, Monsieur, they are more to my liking, than all the gaieties of Paris.
From The Blue Lights A Detective Story by Frederic Arnold Kummer
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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