Chirpiness

She is talking with forced chirpiness, one hand is clenching her elbow. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He has always carried the cares of the world with chirpiness. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"Yes, I have," he responded, but without any real chirpiness. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"He said it was," Babs interjected, but not with any real chirpiness. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Plymouth Argyle's manager, Peter Reid, has struggled to maintain his characteristic chirpiness at the crisis-hit club. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Adams also has that unself-conscious chirpiness that says, "I may be acting like an idiot -- but I'm a happy idiot." ❋ Marshall Fine (2011)

Off, after much too much agonising, goes Christine Bleakley from the One Show to join Adrian Chiles on an ITV breakfast sofa, and you wonder how her early evening chirpiness will survive extraordinarily ordinary mornings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rather her letters are full of the kind of polite chirpiness you might expect from a Presbyterian minister's daughter from Princeton. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In contrast to Palin's chirpiness, McCain's subsequent remarks sounded ragged — he got the date of the fall election wrong, for starters — and belligerent, far less pleasing to the crowd, some of whom began drifting off. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And to round all this chirpiness off, tomorrow we get to watch the inauguration at work... ❋ Ra (2009)

The chirpiness of voices reporting even horrific events in Iraq, the syrupy, crocodile-tear voices telling stories of officially-sanctioned, politically-correct suffering (not, for instance, court-martialed military dissenters) and the blithely dismissive voices interviewing guests providing an occasional "other side" to the official story are by now, to me, repugnant. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The decision to strip everything back rather than indulge in fripperies such as backing singers (as on their final pre-split tour in 1983) was the correct one, too, but a feud-less Police is a slightly dulled Police, summed up by the wholly inappropriate chirpiness afforded 'Don't Stand So Close To Me'. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I could claim I hear all the depression and desperation underneath the chirpiness -- and maybe I do on some subconscious level -- but the truth is that hearing Karen Carpenter's voice just makes me happy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My chirpiness evaporated on November 2, 2004, when I saw an (other) “election” stolen. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Straight Shooter, which should disabuse anyone not paying attention otherwise of their occasionally-supposed bubbly-chirpiness. ❋ Bill Crider (2007)

The voice acting in this game was occasionally irritating, the chirpiness of the frog character and the repetitive instructions given by other characters to try to help the player out. ❋ Patternjuggler (2007)