joie de vivre

“She contains multitudes. She has a lot of joie de vivre. She wants to drink all the marrow out of the moment. I have a feeling she’s always been that way.”

In “Snail,” a traumatized and lonely young Grace risks becoming a hoarding hermit until she bonds with the older Pinky, who is the essence of joie de vivre.

And in so doing, we lose our enjoyment of the moment, our buoyancy, our joie de vivre.

It had been indescribably worse living with contempt, insults and rigid rules as my joie de vivre dulled into depression.

The Paris Olympics have brought some joie de vivre to NBCUniversal.