Sunniness

Nor does Ma abandon his adherence to a kind of sunniness that illuminates consummate musicmaking. ❋ Anne Midgette (2010)

Swing voters, we had been told at the time Senator Kerry named John Edwards as his running mate, would respond well to the vice-presidential candidate's "sunniness," his "optimism," his "small town roots." ❋ Didion, Joan (2004)

The few gestures the Times did make confessed to Reagan's personal sunniness, while portraying his policies as harmful to the poor and middle class. ❋ Clay Waters (2011)

Oh, for those fading voices that once reported on other parts of the sporting forest – the posh joshing of Brian Johnston, or the old-school sunniness whatever the weather of Dan Maskell at Wimbledon. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Seamlessly he combines sunniness and subversion, and can be very complicated indeed. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Here's hoping tomorrow brings more sunniness, of mood and weather both. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal All the members of the Flight Crew, the Jets cheerleading squad, wear the no. 10, and all seem to share a genetic predisposition toward sunniness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Like the sunniness in his books that is always giving way to darkness — or barely concealing it — his humor forsook him now and then, especially as he grew old, and in its place there is deep sadness and a bottomless reservoir of rage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Shortly after they were married five years ago, the Lees — attracted to the lot ' s views, sunniness and central location — purchased the hillside plot of less than 1/8 of an acre for $775,000. ❋ Candace Jackson (2010)

He was an optimist not in the modern and prevalent sense of being too stupid to know things can go bad, but in a way that suggested an informed sunniness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Among the who's who of experts and policy wonks now accused of irrational sunniness are former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Robert Toll, chairman and CEO of Toll Brothers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With characteristic sunniness, he finds in this chaos the spirit of invention and celebrates it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Unlike Lynch, the book maintains a sunniness about life and the future, thanks mainly to Willie's mother. ❋ Tripp (2009)

I think it was the right decision to make it a stand-alone album and not an annoying deluxe edition of The Fame because GaGa has moulded her image so meticulously over the past year that I can barely believe that she sung songs like "Boys Boys Boys", "Money Honey" and "The Fame" with their overt sunniness. ❋ Glenn Dunks (2009)

The relative sunniness of the box-like room and the twittering of the swallows that nested in the entrance to the sauna gave her finer instincts excellent material for the creation of radiant and happy mental pictures. ❋ David McDuff (2009)

All that remains is an impenetrable sunniness -- and an underestimated need to win, to be there. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Both Obama and Casey clearly were having great fun with the whistle stops; their sunniness and geniality was infectious. ❋ Unknown (2008)