merrily

Example Sentences

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One minute you're merrily drinking mulled wine, the next being asked why you're not happily married or whether you are planning children.

From BBC

Downstairs, away from the din of the four-to-the-floor beats, a different group of clubgoers take aim on the snooker tables and dart boards while others chat merrily over cut-price pints.

From BBC

Coming to you from the opposite end of the movie musical spectrum from where “Wicked” perches is Maria Friedman’s compact, propulsive film of her acclaimed revival staging of Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along.”

From Los Angeles Times

Captured at the Hudson Theatre last year during its Tony-winning Broadway run, this “Merrily” is stirring evidence of a hit production, which starred Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez as the tight-knit trio of New York creatives whose friendship, depicted backward across decades, feels like a shattered vase being reassembled so that we appreciate the cracks and cohesion.

From Los Angeles Times

In an age when so many filmmakers have forgotten how to make movies out of a few people in close quarters, there are lessons to be learned from the modest goals of this “Merrily We Roll Along”: to bring a movie audience to the life of the stage and, in so doing, to those thorny stages of life.

From Los Angeles Times