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"merriment" Definitions
  1. happy talk, fun and the sound of people laughing

172 Sentences With "merriment"

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This was resistance without merriment, abjuring any gestures of entertainment.
Although small, the room produced maximum merriment per square foot.
"A burst of merriment and cheers followed," The Times recorded.
She rides around on the whale's back in cheerful merriment.
Hit confirm and you're on your way to merriment and adventure.
Then there's the laughing Prince Adam, in all his glorious merriment.
Where does that pure merriment go when the NHL is involved?
This lunchtime experiment lacked some of the merriment of the first one.
Her 10-year-old brother, Jia Jia, also partook in meteorological merriment.
Ford is now nowhere seriously considered except as a cause of merriment.
The need to conjure up forced merriment that feels spontaneous must be excruciating.
That ironic sense of merriment was a crucial component in all the memes.
Bulky, awkward, stupid, the pigeons, entirely without merriment, stay just out of reach.
Helen Sloan/HBO Not too long ago, our podcast booth was full of merriment.
The merriment continued all afternoon, and seemed to attract some attention from the neighbors.
Getting into the spirit of the merriment, people play dress up, donning military costumes.
This incongruous air of merriment conveys how crowds can take pleasure in hounding individuals.
YONKERS Music and Merriment, interactive stories and songs for children ages 1243½ to 4 years.
"Il Posto" ends at a company holiday party, with dancing and forced but genuine merriment.
Both foreigners and Americans laughed at his efforts, he, himself, joining in the general merriment.
Amid the merriment, the locals sensed an opportunity to plant the seeds for something bigger.
The merriment took place on a riverbank that separates the town from Argentina&aposs training camp.
This article originally appeared on VICE UK.Ah, Christmas—a time of merriment, joy, and festive cheer.
This is not the first time a city in China has clamped down on Christmas merriment.
This museum has planned merriment of its own over four days and during child-friendly hours.
But for all the cheer and merriment of the coming holidays, fall can be a real buzzkill.
We fully cosign with this statement: This season may bring parties and merriment, but it's also stressful.
For being destinations for together and merriment, restaurants also seem to bring out the worst in people.
In the midst of your Halloween merriment, your costume is likely to get either destroyed or abandoned.
The merriment takes a backseat when appropriate, with certain moments pulling at heartstrings more than you'd expect.
At the shelter, he's quickly met with a merriment of high-fives and pats on the shoulder.
Your gambols, your songs — your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Heat, sun, perhaps pollen, and the general merriment of the larger summertime population all really grind me down.
And while we might think of it as a time for merriment and joy, for many, it's not.
The holiday season is about togetherness and merriment, festivity and family, generosity and gratitude, and definitely some frivolity.
Organizers of the soirées, conscious of tighter budgets and public scrutiny, are not eager to discuss the merriment.
I am of course aware that this will rob the world of a scarce source of innocent merriment.
One of the Dodgers' coaches, Chuck Dressen, had his shirt ripped off in the merriment, the article said.
Even if you aren't a fan of country music, the vibrant energy of the honky tonks exudes merriment.
Merriment gives way to commentary on homophobia in an AIDS-plagued society that views same-sex relationships with suspicion.
But organizers of the soirées, conscious of tighter budgets and public scrutiny, are not eager to discuss the merriment.
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"As funny as a heart attack," goes the phrase, and it is generally used to indicate anything but merriment.
Malhotra's photographs of these sites became the After Party series, depicting the aftermath of all the merriment that has passed.
And amid the all the red velvet merriment, gingerbread cookies, and Mariah Carey on-repeat, party season means party dressing.
But "Morgan" clings so closely to the stone-faced Lee that any chance of merriment or wit is effectively smothered.
The merriment of the fair receded and I stared at her, my brain spinning with the magnitude of her question.
With a bit a populist rhetoric to match his outsize personality, he says there&aposs a method to his digital merriment.
DeCarava toggles between merriment and despair, with the precise timing of an observant eye and the intimacy of a perceptive heart.
I was ready to find the joy and merriment in some B-grade genre entertainment in a way I rarely am.
Then a few hours after that, NBC picked up Brooklyn Nine-Nine for a sixth season, to much joy and merriment.
There are a couple of Pharrell-esque dance moves, and a few full-body exhalations — he is a beacon of merriment.
Organizers promise "madcap merriment" at exotic parties, masquerade balls and costume contests at which participants wear body paint and little else.
Almost nonstop for the duration of the act, the crowd screamed for more — more skin, more dancing, more merriment, more nerdiness.
Textual representations of laughter go back at least to Chaucer, who fancied the onomatopoeic "haha" to convey merriment in his writing.
Anytime people could be seen in yards, Winston blew the truck's horn and the merriment thus occasioned suggested a real event.
Amidst the merriment, Kevin gets lost in a hay bale maze and begins to panic, while Ryan attempts to save WUPHF.
Despite conga lines of scowling, truncheon-bearing military police, pickpockets eagerly work the crowd and episodic brawls only briefly dent the merriment.
Maybe they just enjoy the merriment of the season, and the opportunity to come together as a family with their busy schedules.
Nope: It actually seems like Smith finds some source of merriment in bungee jumping into the abyss for the masses to witness.
No matter where you turn during the holidays, it can feel like everyone is trying to push merriment and joy your way.
Or, perchance, you dream of cheerful halfling co-workers, all with an unquenchable desire for merriment and skin seemingly made of marzipan.
But other rituals, like dusting off last year's red lipstick in the name of merriment, deserve an update every now and again.
After all, a ball punted forward is not normally a cause for celebration, a goal kick not usually a reason for merriment.
If The X-Files was going to do a Christmas episode, it would be unlike any other show's take on yuletide merriment.
Across town, over a slice of homemade cardamom cake, there is much merriment over the idea that living together is anything new.
Names aside, the traditional narrative and merriment remain, though Ms. Kirkland's version makes Marie a more participatory heroine (833:00 with intermission).
Names aside, the traditional narrative and merriment remain, though Ms. Kirkland's version makes Marie a more participatory heroine (2:00 with intermission).
The machinery clearly has no respect for the man who will soon host DNCE for an unforgettable evening of music and merriment.
The merriment comes to an abrupt halt when the trio accidentally sets the room on fire, and Simon flees the scene butt-naked.
The unfavorable portraits of Bolsheviks in his stories, their precise observations of Russian life, and their irrepressible merriment made him a political target.
Such is the merriment of the new movie, and so spirited is its pace, that you barely notice the wavering of the tone.
What struck me was how muffled the merriment sounded, through the curtains that separated their cramped quarters from my opulent perch in seat 1A.
The holidays are meant to be a time of joy, and, arguably, no one is a better symbol of Christmas merriment than Santa Claus.
Before the merriment of commencement commences, I hope that your years with us here at Rydell have prepared you for the challenges you face.
This isn't an exclusive screening, it's a screening with a dress code… and face-painters, photo booths, raffles for prizes, and other terrifying merriment.
Collectively, these five time zones account for two-thirds of the world's population, and for a disproportionate amount of the globe's new-year merriment.
It will be the 400th anniversary of his death at 52, after what was said to be a night of merriment with Ben Jonson.
It will be the 21th anniversary of his death at 2700, after what was said to be a night of merriment with Ben Jonson.
An after-work spot for young professionals and office workers, there are always groups chilling, singles sipping, people munching, and general low-gear merriment.
The Quodlibet, the culminating variation, typically unfolds as a rousing climax to the cycle, its interpolated folk-song airs adding a tone of merriment.
And next month, the performers return with a second set, Christmas Queens 2, and the stars will hit the stage to spread some campy merriment.
This so-called "rager" is so tame, FP doesn't even attempt to stop the underage, boozed-up merriment, or call Archie's dad, Fred (Luke Perry).
They are, if not the hub, the apex of social life at Harvard — upscale surrogates for those classic centers of college merriment, sororities and fraternities.
Team employees do their best to prevent damage from the merriment by covering the walls and floors of clubhouses with plastic sheeting or disposable carpeting.
What may get lost in all the merriment is that these are medical procedures with risks, and not all places have a doctor on-site.
Fret not, because this is also a popular time for tons of non-holiday roll-outs — in case you aren't ready for all the merriment.
San Fermín, the best known of them all, has, for generations, drawn scores of people to Pamplona every July for nine days of bull-centric merriment.
Tim Cook is now Tim Apple on Twitter On Wednesday President Trump referred to the CEO of Apple at "Tim Apple," leading to widespread merriment on Twitter.
America continued in the Puritan way, the egalitarian dream of Merrymount cast aside, the "merriment after the old English custom" (Morton's words) feared as the devil's indulgence.
But a note of discord, of brutality, brings the merriment to a disturbing close, as two Jewish men passing by are attacked and thrown to the ground.
Star Wars Day, it turns out, is a real thing — people throw parties, and there are showings and games and merriment in all the galaxies, I'm sure.
While museum fundraisers are on the whole not raucous events, I expected more dancing and merriment based on the sole fact that there was an open bar.
And although the speech he smothered behind his dancing hand was now doubly unintelligible to the class, his complete surrender to his own merriment would prove irresistible.
You probably associate this time of year with general merriment and festive fun, but did you know that it's also the best time to save on VPNs?
As the Kool and the Gang song "Celebration" blared, their merriment was restrained — a sign, perhaps, that they were planning for bigger celebrations in the days ahead.
The actress captioned the shot, "I mean I did have fun as a brunette…" anticipating all the supposed merriment in store for her in the very near future.
From Runners World, after Barnicle's last-place finish this weekend: "But you know what?" he said, his eyes sparkling with a merriment unusual in someone immediately post-marathon.
The Big Apple has plenty of merriment—the Rockefeller Center tree, elaborate window displays, actual snow— but door-to-door Christmas caroling can prove to be a challenge.
Whatever your feelings may be on these frantic and festive times, we've got a little something up our sleeves that we hope might up the general merriment factor.
We asked five of our favorite chefs to share the meal that makes them feel a hell of a lot better when they've overdone it on potable merriment.
Here, two great forces of merriment have worked in tandem since December 2016, solely for the purpose of providing brief rays of light in our otherwise dogshit lives.
At the door of a crumbling old school where he was once a squatter, Jose Neto, 70, a fisherman, lit a handmade cigarette as he watched the merriment.
The same merriment and wonder that compelled the young embassy child in 1973 to reach out and take a bite continues to captivate visitors, young and old alike.
Disney parks have traditionally offered passive experiences designed to celebrate — sit in a flying galleon on Peter Pan's Flight or soak in the merriment of It's a Small World.
Kinan Azmeh's "Ibn Arabi Postlude" was six languid minutes; Edward Perez's cloying Spanish arrangements, "Latina 6/8 Suite," got a dose of aggressive merriment from Cristina Pato's Galician bagpipes.
Mr. Welser-Möst carefully traced the progression from pastoral calm to rollicking merriment, and teased out the comedy in moments like boisterous lower strings answered by mischievous higher voices.
The orchestra, led by Aaron Gandy, struggles to measure up much of the time, but that irritation, too, recedes into the distance as the madcap merriment takes its course.
The Fellowship group made its merriment in the community room of an Upper East Side high-rise, while the Friends group gathered inside McGee's Pub on West 55th Street.
Nazir Ahmed, the aviation minister, said he did not want "to kill merriment", but he might look at extending measures already being practiced at a few airports, such as Gatwick.
And if you dig the merriment of "American Country Love Song," fear not, Owen says American Love is brimming with the same feeling fans have come to know him for.
Fans of Ms. Jones can double the merriment by streaming "A Very Murray Christmas," in which she harmonizes with Bill Murray while snowed in at the Carlyle Hotel, on Netflix.
During the festival, worshippers jump over their bonfires in a gesture of purification, and they perform a maypole dance, weaving ribbons around the pole ("usually badly, amid much merriment," Blake says).
The company has long been the gold standard in wireless whole-home audio and their speakers, while small, are powerful and more than usable for music, home entertainment, and general merriment.
The red cup is a tailgate mainstay, a cookout staple, a fixture of dinner parties and keggers; it's synonymous with flip cup, with beer pong, with debauchery and merriment and revelry.
In true Disney fashion, the days immediately following Halloween were a scene of magical transformation, with cast members changing out the spooky decor for festive merriment under the cover of night.
Somewhere in the distance, Harry Nilsson's jangly "Gotta Get Up" starts playing, and we hear a cacophony of muddled voices, a sign that merriment is taking place right outside the bathroom.
So she approaches her scenes alternating wide-eyed wonder and knowing wit, lending a merriment to her work that lifts a hundred-pound weight off the rest of this dour franchise.
For this incarnation, "Murder by Magic," the company had adopted a Jazz Age theme, situating the murder among a troupe of bickering vaudevillians who called themselves Masters of Magic and Merriment.
He's such a hero in his homeland that he even has a night dedicated to him; "Burns Night" takes place on 25 January and involves plenty of singing and Haggis-themed merriment.
And just when you thought it couldn't get any more celebratory than that, beauty brands are now adding even more merriment to holiday packaging by throwing tons of confetti into the mix.
I didn't believe in consumerism, red was never my color, and the season's prescribed feelings of merriment only amplified the fact that my hormones had left me angry at pretty much everything.
If enjoying Darwin's The Descent of Man as The Descent of Boy provides even a small moment of merriment in the face of well-established workplace biases like those, so be it.
Given all the merriment that will soon be around you, we thought it was only right to skip sharing tracks and go straight to the meat and veg of some massive mixes.
That, plus an extra helping of holiday merriment, is what happened when the creators of the so-called world's largest Rube Goldberg machine (certified by the Guinness World Records group) demonstrated recently.
" Boyle says that sharing what you don't need -- and getting the stuff that you do want secondhand -- is a great way to see "how the merriment can exist without buying anything new.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Christmas is a time of plenty - and the season of abundant food, gifts and merriment creates a hefty climate impact and millions of tons of waste each year.
But with six nicotine lozenges tucked inside an Amazon-approved Ziplock bag (more on this later), I felt fully prepared on Wednesday for an evening of music, merriment, and, above all, unbelievable DEALS.
On December 27th, despite general merriment and a government shutdown, the agency issued its finding that Obama-era regulations on mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants were no longer "appropriate and necessary".
The 12 tracks range from the merriment of the Wood Brothers' "Chocolate on My Tongue" to the tender sadness of "October Song," one of two songs co-written by Mattea's husband, Jon Vezner.
And the real merriment could not begin until Enrique Hernandez, a utility player who had just blasted three home runs in the Dodgers' 11-1 victory at Wrigley Field, led the rallying cry.
These early-life scenes in "Little Women" are so tender, so brimming with mischief and merriment, that it feels as if the film will collapse under a duvet of forced frivolity and preciousness.
Yes, it's the holidays, of course...but for pop culture fanatics (or anyone with a TV and movie addiction, so basically all of us) the only thing better than holiday merriment is awards season.
The new score, by Hairspray's Marc Shaiman and Scott Whitman, is melodic and sugary, driven along at times by oom-pah-pah merriment, but it too deliberately echoes (and fails to equal) the original.
Sashay Away: Pride month is popping off and Ivanka Trump thought that she could jump on the bandwagon of LGBTQ activism and merriment without taking accountability for her dad and his veep's homophobic policies.
Fellow iconoclast and nightlife mainstay Bernhard will mark her 228th anniversary offering defiant merriment with "Sandy's Holiday Extravaganza — A Decade of Madness and Mayhem" featuring the Sandyland Squad Band at 27183 and 22718 p.m.
If you can't call your Uber and can't reach your friends to let them know you're running 30 minutes late to dinner, what was once a well-planned night of merriment can go south quickly.
I hope that everyone is safe and warm, and is looking forward to a few days of wassail and merriment (or some good books, or catching up on your watchlist — whatever makes your heart sing).
The uncle hoots and hoots, he claps his forehead with his hand, in merriment, he throws back his head to bellow with laughter—And his head topples off and bounces on the floor and rolls away.
CreditCreditTory Rust for The New York Times Merriment was in the air on the fall runways with eyes glittering with metallics at Marc Jacobs and Jill Stuart, gold leaf at Akris and crystals at Kate Spade.
His merriment was no mere pretense; his laughter bubbled over and was contagious; his buoyancy was immense; and there was not a soul present who did not become infected with the same feeling of genuine happiness.
The night was a three-hour phantasmagoric display of music, big-name talent (Exhibit A: Luke Bryan), promising up-and-comers, the irrepressible merriment of Bones and his misfit part-time band, the Raging Idiots — and surprises.
The director calls action and the merriment unfolds as four young women sip drinks by the pool, cavort on downy beds, muse about their futures and sprint along Hollywood Boulevard in pursuit of a vanished mystery bag.
Vit Horejs, the founder of the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater, has been presenting variations of this piece of multicultural merriment since 2001, always using some three dozen wooden marionettes and rod puppets, many of them vintage examples.
I don't want there to be any impositions on your time right now other than merriment so I went ahead and figured out where you can stream every single classic Christmas movie you could possibly want (no sequels).
This project comes at a time when many of us are struggling to maintain the most ambitious of New Year's resolutions, including dramatic vows to cut sugar, alcohol, and all other sorts of merriment out of our lives forever.
Please arrive early and join us in the Barrel O' Fun beginning at 5:30pm for an It pre-party where we will have face-painters available for clown "touch-ups", a photo booth, raffles for prizes, and other terrifying merriment.
Under the low ceiling, even in the brick-walled room at the very back, the sounds of merriment seem strangely close, as if each peal of brittle laughter, each gleefully spilled secret, were directed toward your own ready ear. ♦
"The Pumpkin Pie Show: Stump Speeches," the delightfully perverse, political-themed installment of the annual macabre merriment led by the writer and performer Clay McLeod Chapman, provides strong evidence that the bloody tools of Lovecraftian horror are effective this political season.
" But this is such a mature and self-aware Bush that he knows he "had to fight it, the sudden shift from merriment to irritability, from runner's high to cramp, the flight and crash he experienced a dozen times an hour.
The disintegrating lower legs of "Reclining Male Nude" (circa 1520–1530) are particularly suggestive of the flickering forces of instability, while the prancing "Male Nude in Profile Leaping to the Right" (circa 1504–08) suggests ecstatic Dionysian merriment in ancient polytheistic Greece.
Get colorful Kathy Beymer, founder of the craft site Merriment Design, said that her mom taught her when she was growing up that she should eat a bunch of colors on her plate, so she has passed that on to her kids.
But after losing most of his money in a series of ill-advised investments — including, to the merriment of the Dutch press, a pig farm — that were counseled by a scam artist who had possibly seduced his wife, Cruyff came to America.
It's a night of merriment as the Victoria's Secret angels alight in Paris, the Obama family flips the switch on the National Christmas Tree for the final time, and VH1 Divas, including Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan and Patti LaBelle, trill in the season.
She'll also be welcoming hundreds of visitors to her home this month and joining in on the holiday merriment — she was no stranger to the dance floor during the disco party thrown for the security staff in the ballroom last year, we're told.
More than 160,000 Ganesh statues had already been dropped in the city's waterways, some just a foot tall and worshiped in people's homes, others close to 30 feet high, paid for by politicians and businessmen as centers for worship and merriment at the festival.
Last year, the FDA rejected a petition to remove marijuana from the Schedule I category due, in part, to studies that showed weed is addictive to monkeys and causes "increased merriment and appetite" in humans, according to documentsobtained last year from the FDA by VICE News.
In a palette of greens and blues, stripes and gingham are overlaid with sheer fabric; the glow of Nicole Pearce's warm lighting also helps to create the sense that the dancers are flitting around, not on a stage, but in a garden, enchanted by their own merriment.
Whether you're living with generalized anxiety disorder or suffer specific phobias, or are mostly anxiety-free until around mid-November, we've curated some of the more portable bits from the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy toolkit to help you get through all the crushing merriment that yet lies ahead.
Hundreds of people who had paid upwards of $12,000 for tickets to Fyre Festival, which was promoted as a luxury tropical Coachella, were instead stranded on a barren piece of the Bahamas over a weekend, their anguished Twitter and Instagram posts providing much merriment for the internet.
She tried to visualize the hatred of the Trump voting class for herself and people like herself, all those brown and yellow faces on Instagram peeking out of the coolest café in the newest city at the latest hour, once hard-won lives now spent in merriment and ease.
But there is an overwhelming forced merriment in the pursuit of laughs — a layering on of brightly colored wackiness that feels partly like desperation and partly like an attempt to dumb things down, as if by making the comedy broad enough it will be comprehensible by the masses.
The unrestrained merriment was mirrored on the streets of cities across Brazil, where thousands of people celebrated what they hope will be the ouster of Ms. Rousseff on charges that she illegally used money from state-owned banks to hide a catastrophic budget deficit and bolster her chances of re-election.
While the program traditionally strikes a tone of merriment and celebration, a special segment was reportedly added this year, with the hosts expressing gratitude and "best wishes" to the patients, medical staff and residents of Wuhan in the wake of the deadly coronavirus that has been confirmed in patients around the world.
Part of the problem is the score, too slow, evenly paced and folk-inflected to sustain the kind of aristocratic merriment that MacMillan seems to want in the opening act, with its naval officers (good work from Luca Acri, Tristan Dyer, Marcelino Sambé), in uniform and stripy bathing suits, entertaining the royal family.
It's sobering to reflect that Cukor's "Little Women" is nearer in time to the Civil War than it is to us; it could conceivably have been seen by an eighty-year-old whose father had died in the conflict, and the ghost of loss and frailty seems to dawdle on the fringes of the merriment.
Yet a quick glance at the "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, the father of economics, suggests why competition watchdogs are so unhappy with the current set-up: People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
The specific evocation of those times seems to be the principal source of merriment for the audience, as when Patrick, in the opening sequence, speaks with proprietary pride of possessions like his Walkman and 30-inch-screen Sony TV. References to Donald Trump and "Les Misérables" — staples of 1980s culture that refuse to go away — draw the loudest laughter.
If one has seen any of the magazine's advent videos before, Hadid's latest video follows the formula to a T. Take one of the hottest models of the year (check), put her in next to nothing (double check), pan around her while she dances (triple check), and let the seasonal merriment commence (check check check check).
He pictured his colleagues gathering for their customary early supper—seated on the long benches in the chapter house in front of the huge fire, the bishop bowing his narrow grizzled head to say grace, his face in the blaze still the colour of an oyster, a flicker of malicious merriment in those small dark eyes.
Yet I persisted in the performance of forced merriment demanded of us by this bully of a holiday — until I went to another concert, one that featured a former punk idol whose dissolution and incoherence made for a disheartening, not-fun-at-all spectacle, followed by a long wait for a taxi in frigid weather in hopes of quelling the possibility of anyone barfing near my boots on the subway again.
" Melville's first two books are narratives of his travels, " Typee ," published in 21863, and " Omoo ," in 18763, gripping adventure stories that made the young and dashing writer a celebrity, not least because of their lustiness, fifty shades of ocean spray, a quality not confined to his descriptions of half-naked Polynesian women, like Fayaway, in "Typee"—"Her full lips, when parted with a smile, disclosed teeth of a dazzling whiteness; and when her rosy mouth opened with a burst of merriment, they looked like the milk-white seeds of the 'arta,' a fruit of the valley, which, when cleft in twain, shows them reposing in rows on either side, embedded in the rich and juicy pulp"—but extending, as well, to the sea itself, the Pacific wind blowing "like a woman roused.

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