Spend New Year's Day happily anticipating the future, not nursing a hideous hangover and making penitent, unrealistic resolutions.

He happily anticipated seeing his wife for the first time in years and his daughters for the first time.

O'Brien eventually accepts that he'll be a father again and happily anticipates the baby.

Well, he'd done his best to be civilized He smiled, happily anticipating the fight.

If a preview is inaccurately positive, I've gained by happily anticipating for a few months.

The clergy were happily anticipating their return to power.

After landing in France, Shelley continues to happily anticipate her travels and the benefits she will derive from them.

Unfortunately, the rates will be subject to rate increases that the Postal Service (and no one else) is happily anticipating.

The newsreel depicted wild-eyed, foreign-looking radicals happily anticipating Sinclair's socialist paradise.