Word: jovialness
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...animated friendliness and sense of well-being of North End street life is contagious. In getting to know the community better, one realizes that there is a complex set of rules of behavior which operates beneath this jovial exterior. The invisible code is hard to learn, particularly for outsiders who are considered a threat to the community and are regarded with mixed friendliness and hostility...
...deep-fried in an oil fire. She ministers to the sick and the infirm as head of an Italian hospital, which is riddled with both political strife and human tragedy. The movie is unrelentingly simpleminded, and treats all subjects from cardiac ar rests to brimming bedpans with a jovial mixture of high spirits, low comedy and bad taste. Loren breezes through it all beautiful and oblivious, doing a dirty job with imperturbable elegance...
...jovial nature, Melchior had his share of pride. He departed from the Met in 1950 after General Manager Rudolf Bing approached lesser singers first with new contracts. Melchior threatened to withdraw unless his agreement was renewed immediately; Bing, notoriously unsympathetic to any ultimatum...
...spirits seemed higher than usual. He gaily entertained the crowd with talk of his love of music. Waving his hands in imitation of a practiced conductor, he noted that he played Bach and Rachmaninoff late at night in the White House when trying to make "unimportant decisions." Relaxed and jovial, he asked the band to play something slow, and invited the assembled to "cut in on us." As he and Mrs. Nixon made their way toward a staircase, the President flashed a big smile and asked: "Could somebody tell me where the dance floor is, please...
Strauss's jovial persona is the kind of tonic the Democrats need in an otherwise cheerless time. Strauss, 54, is the striving son of a Texas dry-goods merchant. He has been an adept moneymaker both for himself and the Democrats; he is also a man who can-and often does-call someone a "sonabitch" without having to smile. It is the other person, in fact, who smiles or even laughs...