joviality
Example Sentences
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There’s silliness — one production involved a cryogenically frozen Swedish rapper — and the overall tone is one of joviality, the belief that art in the early 21st century should be increasingly interactive and playable.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2025
A classmate at the time said she had turned the school "in completely the opposite direction" during the election, using her "personality, joviality and optimism".
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2023
For all Dave Grohl’s grinning joviality, it’s easy to forget that his long-running rock group Foo Fighters was, initially, a solo project born of grief.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023
One Christmas obligation is to bring tidings of comfort to those who, because they are suffering, find the obligatory joviality of the season off-putting and depressing.
From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2022
Gebu’s joviality lasted for several days, and as was usual during these periods, Ranofer fared better as to food.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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