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Word: joyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...high-consuming lifestyle. And I think that I was just asleep to the toll, in terms of my health, in terms of not being with my family, and to the literal cost in terms of debt. I also realized halfway through the project that it was a great joy to eat this way and live this way, and how much I'd been sacrificing without realizing it in my old life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Examining the No-Impact Life | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...choose to subvert the revered likeness of the Dear Leader or who produce blasphemous images of the worker's paradise. One of Sunmu's best-known series of works, the Happy Children paintings, features rows of identical North Korean youngsters wearing fixed, disturbing grins that radiate hysteria rather than joy. "No one knows what happiness is in North Korea," Sunmu explains. "They are just told to be happy." (See rare pictures from inside North Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Star | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...prize still belongs to Mascis, whose songwriting seems perfectly attuned to the chemistry that the trio had developed, weirdly uninterrupted after nearly two decades apart. Nowhere is this more true than on “I Want You To Know,” a blissfully heavy blast of lovesick joy that’s just as easily straight out of the 80s vaults. In the end, the only difference between “Farm” and its immediate predecessor is the subtle tone of satisfaction; having emerged into yet another creative groove, this record lacks the hints of ragged...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dinosaur Jr. | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...priorities. Throughout my stay, I attended one opulent wedding (but heard about many more), replete with lavish decorations and a bejeweled bride. Such grandeur has increasingly become the norm; anything less is looked down upon. People seem to be spending millions on weddings—not out of joy, but out of a desire to one-up the last celebration they have attended...

Author: By Shareen P Asmat | Title: A Tale of Two Pakistans | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...want to go to heaven. There was a certain amount peace -a lot of peace, actually - in the family get-together last night." When his sister Eunice died, Kennedy said that "I know that our parents and brothers and sisters who have gone before are filled with joy to have her by their side again. " Now his family could say the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lessons of His Dying | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

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