cheerful

"She was a very active cheerful woman like myself," Barrie recalls, adding: "She loved animals and she loved birds and she was fond of children."

In fact, it said they had observed staff engaging prisoners in "cheerful but respectful light-hearted banter".

He is cheerful and serious, even about play.

Such cheerful platitudes would carry a taint of irony, in retrospect, when authorities exposed the harm and suffering they alleged had been inflicted under Guo's watch.

Saira says Muhammad was her "best friend", funny and always cheerful - "My mother worries that she's forgetting his smile."