"Joyful anticipation" means feeling excited and happy about something that is going to happen in the future.
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They wait with
such joyful anticipation for their breakfast and the dogs who had always left food in their bowl no longer do!
The name Mud Hen Bars should make you jump up and down and scream with
joyful anticipation of enjoying one of the most excellent cookie bars you will ever eat.
So for very different reasons both Mr. Camping and I will look forward to May 21, 2011,
with joyful anticipation that the bridegroom is coming.
The joyful anticipation of a fresh conquest is palpable on the front page of today's New York Times:» In a Quick Shift, Scouts Rethink a Ban on Gays.»
It is a lesson all Christians should take to heart, as we, too, look forward to that day, in hopeful and
joyful anticipation, of receiving Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
And the child is in
a joyful anticipation of the day when he finally grows up.
MacKenzie loves helping women look forward to their birth and parenting experiences with
a joyful anticipation, free of expectations and fears.
I would fall asleep grinning and wake up to
the joyful anticipation of getting to see her or talk to her.