merriment

From a certain angle, it looked as if Agatha and Pax were glancing at each other, a twin twinkle of merriment in each oil-painted eye.

Before long, even the solemn Swanburne girls began to talk and giggle among themselves, with nearly the same freedom and merriment Penelope recalled from her own days at school.

A festival on a sandbar brought 90 minutes of merriment to hundreds of people in the Isles of Scilly.

The rest of the episode combines bloody, frantic action; a thriller; an absurd stage play; and “choreography and merriment.”

There shall be no more merriment, and in the words of Nat King Cole, it is time to straighten up and fly right.