Merchants may receive many comforts, but tend to be very guarded in their friendships, and not prone to laughter or gaiety.
It was animating to see the immense crowds, and the general gaiety, but the masks were nothing.
It is in this, and not the tendency to gaiety or sadness, that we must locate the distinction between these temperaments of feeling.
Even their gaiety seemed to be of the forced kind often associated with a particularly painful farewell.
However, the mood of gaiety was to be shattered soon.
He was a man with a congenital gaiety and gracefulness who lived in sympathetic and trustful contact with his surroundings, his past and his future.
From this he was able to propose three primary bi-polar dimensions, trivia versus solemnity, gaiety versus gloom and energy versus relaxation, against which musical association could be measured.
Young men, then, are associated with foolishness, their gaiety equivalent to stupidity, while adults are associated with wisdom, humility and spiritual perfection (temimut).
