Elliott Abrams

While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes.

American Lawyer

Mel Giedroyc

I don't have a problem with the concept of a box set per se - we have many of them merrily lined up on the shelf above the telly. No, what gives me the pip is the fact that I'm never going to watch any of them.

English Entertainer

Georg C. Lichtenberg

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

German Scientist

Renato Dulbecco

While we spend our life asking questions about the nature of cancer and ways to prevent or cure it, society merrily produces oncogenic substances and permeates the environment with them.

Italian Scientist

Thomas Dekker

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.

English Dramatist

John O'Keefe

I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

American Scientist

Park Geun-hye

I will revive the legend of the economic miracle, making the country a place where people have no worry about living and young people merrily go to work.

South Korean Politician

Robert Pinsky

Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

American Poet

Use 'merrily' to express joy in actions, showing a positive and light-hearted spirit.

Positive Vibes

'Merrily' often appears in songs or poems because of its rhythmic and cheerful sound.

Musical Context

Adding 'merrily' sets a lighthearted mood, suggesting that people are not only happy but also lively.

Emotional Atmosphere

'Merrily' implies a carefree attitude, often used when someone is unconcerned about potential problems.

No Worries

Describes an effortless or relaxed way of doing something, as if without any stress or strain.

Easygoing Nature

'Merrily' can indicate someone is dismissing something important or serious, almost with a sense of humor.

Disregard

Sometimes the use of 'merrily' contrasts with the gravity of a situation to highlight carelessness or irony.

Contrast

Shows a response that takes the edge off of a tense situation by adding some humor or lightness.

Light-Hearted Reaction

 The world, your perceptions of it, your very body. You can't disprove that they're all just made up, and how could you exist without them? You couldn't! So, you don't. Life is but a dream, and I bet you aren't row, row, rowing the boat merrily at all, are you? No, you're rowing it wearily

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 in the course of the conversation and wave us on merrily. So my father was exhibiting what we in Jamaica called "playing fool to catch wise." But it lent also an idea that actually he was being diminished or belittled by the policeman — as a 10-year-old boy, I saw that —

Colin Grant: The son of...

 It's the same as with all reforms. Sometimes they seem to lag, then they barely balance, and away they go again, as merrily as if they'd never been threatened to stop at all.

Merrily

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