A factor which heartens them is the sprawling river bed, to a length of nearly seven kilometres and an average breadth of 200 metres.

After this meeting, there were private discussions with some guesthouse owners and, hearteningly , some non-aligned farmers.

And more importantly, there's a lot of reading going on right now: that heartens me.

Bartley viewed himself as an optimist, and was heartened by what he had observed during his career.

But some traditionally weird summer news has hearteningly turned up.