Example Sentences

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Good gamay wines, no matter how they are made or where they come from, always seem to have an intrinsic element of joyousness.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2021

Her joyousness and enthusiasm were cast as somehow both insincerely pandering and cringingly over-earnest.

From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2020

The best have a puckish joyousness, even when the material is dark.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2019

That might have been why The National’s Paramount show Tuesday had a joyousness their moody records don’t always approach.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2017

There was no twinkle in the picture of him, nor any of his inspective joyousness.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck