sunnily


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sun·ny

(sŭn′ē)
adj. sun·ni·er, sun·ni·est
1. Exposed to or abounding in sunshine: a sunny room.
2. Cheerful; genial: a sunny smile.

sun′ni·ly adv.
sun′ni·ness n.
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Adv. 1. sunnily - in a cheerful manner; "`I'll do the dishes,' he said pleasantly"
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sunnily

advheiter ; smile alsosonnig
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At first she seemed overcome with amazement; then tears flowed from her wondering eyes; and then she smiled sunnily through them, and one of her arms slid tenderly about the broker's neck.
There is the philosophical, as in Money Beats Soul; the sunnily wholesome, as in the Good Clean Fun Band; and the quirky intrigue provoked by Pippin and the Frogs, Serendipity, Minors of Rock, Hip Pockit, and CK and the Gray.
At the end of World War II he produced two achingly nostalgic works, the sunnily autumnal Oboe Concerto, and the heartbroken Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings.
Congress viewed the usual framework even more sunnily when it amended Title VII in 1991.
All of this is sunnily evident in the 11 tracks of 'Amsterdaam' which additionally includes the evocative "Oriental Journey" and "Just Before the Light," the McCartney-esque "In My Heart," one vocal tune "All Night Long," a clever mashup of Robben Ford meets Eric Clapton titled "Blues on the Outside," and the Steely Dan influenced "Thin Blue Line" ("The Dan" being especially influential to Mykeljon in his 5 years of music conservatorium study).
The sunnily cautious comments of the foreign office minister, Alan Duncan, on the BBC this morning, suggested that the official decision was to grin and bear it, rather than engage in anything more dramatic.
Only two could plausibly be described as good: mild-mannered Harold (David Oyelowo), the closest thing we have to a hero, and the aptly-named Sunny (Amanda Seyfried), who sunnily tells our Nigerian gringo that "things are going to start getting better, I can feel it" -- just before a couple of thugs burst in and beat him up.
She greets them sunnily, and just like that, like the flown-away raven, the atmosphere at their table too changes.
There's also an effort to inject more humor into the discussions, with the resident doctors and their guests sunnily seeing the brighter side of some patients' woes.
"Yes, it all happened rather quickly!" agrees the disarmingly personable baritone, looking Hollywood handsome and relaxed in T-shirt and jeans as we sit sunnily al fresco at a Miami bookshop/cafe.
James prepares us for this powerful scene of intertwined memory and imagination in a characteristic fashion: he puts us into the scene of Paris, the Tuilleries, the Luxembourg Gardens, "all sunnily 'composed' together" (James 56), as though into a painting: "It was as if the wonderful Paris spring had stayed with him as he roamed....
Less sunnily, the Voting Rights Act has made little headway toward