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Cheerfulness blood humor effecting temperament of sanguineness. [Medieval Physiology: Hall, 130] symbol of cheerfulness because of its bright yellow flowers. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 371] symbol of cheerfulness. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 383] pastoral idyll; title means the cheerful or merry one. [Br. Lit.: “L’Allegro” in Benét, 24–25] the “glad child,” extraordinarily optimistic. [Children’s Lit.: Pollyanna] good-natured despite misadventures; doll with perpetual smile. [Children’s Lit.: Raggedy Ann Stories] (Sunday’s) child bonny and blithe, good and gay. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 309] Zeena’s cousin-companion; brightens Frome’s gloomy house. [Am. Lit.: Ethan Frome] downpour doesn’t dampen singer’s spirits. [Pop. Music: Fordin, 355] Martin’s ever jovial companion. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit] symbolizes good-naturedness in adversity. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178] |
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The Age of Terrorism has brought to Wall Street a blitheness of spirit. With a dizzying amount of detail, her dancers seem choreographed down to their toenails, yet they move with a blitheness that belies the difficulty. What seemed most troubling about the left in Leveriza, and elsewhere in the Philippines, wasn't the casual embrace of Marxist vocabulary, but a certain blitheness towards the potential consequences of revolution. |
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