alegre
cheerful ; lively ; light hearted [light-hearted/lighhearted] ; jolly ; merry ; joyful ; blithe ; gleeful ; perky ; cheery ; breezy ; good-humoured ; festive ; jaunty ; joyous.
Tom Hernandez tried not to show how sad he felt about his friends' leaving, and managed to keep up a cheerful facade until the party broke up.
But in the country the processes of printing always provoke such lively curiosity that the customers preferred to go in by a glazed door set in the shop-front and giving onto the street.
Properly read, live literature - even the quietest or most light-hearted - may be disturbing, may subvert our view of life.
'Let folks alone and all will then be jolly'.
Maybe Juan and his merry companions would be happy to relegate us to the boiler room, or a janitor's closet!.
It's that joyful leap from one place to another that symbolises the freedom to explore on the web.
According to these librarians, prudent judgment and professional knowledge about the value of a title should never be replaced by a blithe trust in statistical data = According to these librarians, prudent judgment and professional knowledge about the value of a title should never be replaced by a blithe trust in statistical data.
However, there is a gleeful bad-taste energy throughout; the film's dumb good nature is infectious, though hardly commendable.
The members of Harvey's family seem almost spookily healthy and perky and nice to each other.
The novel is a cheery social satire about geeky middle-aged men and their freakishly attractive, younger spouses.
This knowing sequel to the breezy glamor of 'Ocean's Eleven' provides more thieves, more heists, more twists, more locations, and more playfulness than the original.
The second thing is being good-humoured, not to get angry or pontificate or be dogmatic.
Christmas was especially festive with granma and granpa here to share it.
A wool beret, worn at just such a jaunty angle says 'I'm confident' in a most nonchalant way.
Also she possessed a pair of wonderful blue eyes that danced and scintillated with joyous good humour.
más alegre que unas castañuelas
as happy as Larry
as happy as a lark
as merry as a lark
as merry as a cricket
Recent research into the reaction of key executives to the integration and expansion of global capital markets suggests that many of them are almost 'as happy as Larry'.
I thought I'd be happy as a lark when I finally got thin, but believe me I'm not.
He was soon at the door in his van, as merry as a lark, when I mounted and we started off at a full gallop.
I console myself with the thought that this time next week it'll all be over and I'll once again be merry as a cricket.
sentirse alegre
feel + happy
We even react as though it were all happening to us by feeling sad or happy, frightened or angry, amused or scandalized, and so on.
