"The cresting gives it a more festive feeling than a plain slate roof."

Faced with the prospect of long waits, deafening public-address systems, and indigestion, you may quickly lose that festive feeling.

For many, food shopping is a mundane chore at best, but at this market there was a definite festive feeling.

There was a festive feeling flowing from the mass of humanity outside the stadium.

City Hall is decorated with red, white and blue banners, which aren't exactly holiday-specific but add to the festive feeling.

It was shortly after Christmas but there was little festive feeling between the royal couple.

A videotape made by one of the participants, William McKinney, suggests the event had a festive, upbeat feeling.

There's so much going on - you get the festive feeling, and a kind of underlying tension.

The challenge was familiar enough to anyone who has ever planned a holiday party: how to conjure that special festive feeling.

It gave the performance a festive, communal feeling, and if the music didn't really work, its lack of order seemed secondary on such a hot summer night.