He picked at the food while trying to make cheerful conversation with Sara.

It was not a cheerful conversation, especially as Essie decided to get philosophical.

Both James and Green tried to lighten the mood with cheerful conversation, but to little effect.

He could hear the laughter, the cheerful conversation, always stimulated by the arrival of new personnel.

The first came in at just past eighteen hundred hours - a cheerful conversation between the victim and her mother.

They had obviously been engaged in cheerful but quiet conversation.

A colleague made cheerful conversation with Jan while another of the team hurriedly arranged a better room.

Banishing these reflections from his mind he proceeded to enter into cheerful conversation.

She welcomed it, because to sit there and make cheerful conversation with him was going to be beyond her.

But then, he told himself, she might have preferred more cheerful conversation with her meal.