A room can look festive and jolly without being overwhelmed by lots of gaudy decorations.

This film looks festive enough, but it also has an admirable restraint.

Used to tie a bit of red crepe paper round it, make it look more festive.

When had the city ever looked so festive?

These are dresses that look festive and important.

The Tevac explosives' cones with their blinking red lights looked oddly festive.

'They don't look very festive to me,' he said.

At the foot of the outside staircase, their forlorn little wagon looked somehow festive.

"I have my ways of making things look festive without actually getting out the ornaments," she said.

"So I take it that for the present we must stay on the station; and one can hardly say it looks particularly festive."