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The Sex Lives of Cannibals vocabulary

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joie de vivre: ► definition

Definition:

Enjoyment of living; happiness, ebullience, zest for life.

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Solid, monumental like his grandfathers, but with a joie de vivre and an irresistable good humor that they did not have,

Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.206 (1970)

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Some might regard this is reprehensible, but I think this why-the-fuck-not attitude was reflective of a certain joie de vivre.

J. Maarten Troost. The Sex Lives of Cannibals, p.75 (2004)

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Set to become a member of the E.U. in 2013 [Croatians] are already hard at work adapting the European joie de vivre.

PBS. Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope: Cruising the Mediterranean (2012)

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