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Example sentences for: joie

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The French people — despite occasional rumors to the contrary — welcome tourists and are eager to show off their country, their way of life, their traditions, and their beliefs; in short, their essential joie de vivre.
No matter how prodigious your joie de vivre, partir c'est mourir un peu, don't you think?
Her mother, née Capet, was a grande dame, full of savoir faire and joie de vivre, who later became a clairvoyant and spent her time in séances and collecting naïf gouaches and objets d'art.
But the larger vocabulary of English is irrelevant in two respects: much of this larger vocabulary is esoteric, exotic, pedantic, or otherwise as foreign to everyday English usage as Chinese; and whereas vocabulary is quantified by words, the expressive units of French tend to be phrases, such as chemin de fer, joie de vivre , and raton laveur . By the usual lexical reckoning one could say that French has no word for rail-road or raccoon .