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  • They seemed significantly less exuberant this morning.†   (source)
  • I got up from my chair and headed for the door, but my path was obstructed by an exuberant Dr. Collier.†   (source)
  • He dashed across the lawn to join in the joy, and almost knocked them all over with the exuberance of his greeting.†   (source)
  • His only recollection was a feeling of sheer, joyful exuberance, himself in celebration: shouting "A-men!" in the Bethany Church, bashing John McNab's fastballs out of sight, dancing the polka with Grayson.†   (source)
  • After a lifetime of devotion, seventy-nine years, Mortati knew these events should ignite in him a pious exuberance ....a fervent and living faith.†   (source)
  • We reached the others loitering around the base of the tree, and Phineas began exuberantly to throw off his clothes, delighted by the fading glow of the day, the challenge of the tree, the competitive tension of all of us.†   (source)
  • Plus, one of my clients said I have incredible vitality and exuberance.†   (source)
  • In front of her, illuminated by the lowering sun, was a cloud of insects, each one bobbing randomly, as though fixed on an invisible elastic string—a mysterious courtship dance, or sheer insect exuberance that defied her to find a meaning.†   (source)
  • They were so exuberant, so full of life, while just a few yards away from them I was exhausted and depressed, struggling to survive another day.†   (source)
  • I thought, as Kitsey and I crossed Madison Avenue, her pink Prada overcoat bobbing exuberantly in the throng.†   (source)
  • One side contains my exuberant cheerfulness, my flippancy, my joy in life and, above all, my ability to appreciate the lighter side of things.†   (source)
  • He's just naturally exuberant.†   (source)
  • The horses skittered away from her, but Eragon and Brom smiled at her exuberance.†   (source)
  • The competition could be lethal, yet there was a childlike exuberance to it all, lots of pranks and horseplay.†   (source)
  • He felt exuberant, wanting to burst into song, his usual shyness gone.†   (source)
  • But he just spun around and around on the spot, exuberant as a dancing child, breathing out more fire.†   (source)
  • He was so excitable, any interaction at all would send him into a tizzy of bounce-off-the-walls, triple-espresso exuberance.†   (source)
  • She's just as exuberant as ever.†   (source)
  • As it was, when she spoke with Reta she moved back and forth between a genteel grace and a childlike exuberance.†   (source)
  • He threw back his head and laughed, quietly as a whisper, but still exuberantly.†   (source)
  • What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits and the flinging of cooking utensils and collapse.†   (source)
  • In it we see so much: the parental attempt to save the child and the grief at having failed, the cure that proves as deadly as the ailment, the youthful exuberance that leads to self-destruction,the clash between sober, adult wisdom and adolescent recklessness, and of course the terror involved in that headlong descent into the sea.†   (source)
  • Prendergast bought more postcards and sent exuberant notes to the men who soon would be his associates and clubmates—the judges, lawyers, and merchant princes of Chicago.†   (source)
  • Still exuberant with freedom, they remain confident.†   (source)
  • Europe comes of age in a burst of exuberance and a thirst for life.†   (source)
  • We could hear an extraordinary noise as we got close—loud drums, cymbals, trumpets, instruments of all kinds mixed in with the exuberant, feverish shouting of propaganda slogans.†   (source)
  • At her summons, a woman appeared sheathed in a black satin dress that was far too tight and could barely contain her exuberant femininity.†   (source)
  • She had an exuberance about her that I liked.†   (source)
  • As you would expect from a great salesman, he has a kind of natural exuberance.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, from the very first, Florentino Ariza was not as enthusiastic about the excellence of the cuisine or the exuberance of the lady of the house as he was about the beauty of the house itself.†   (source)
  • They were an exuberant, restless people, wandering across the ocean of the plain.†   (source)
  • I remember how excited I was to walk off the bus and through the Gator Walk, a gauntlet of exuberant fans, into the stadium.†   (source)
  • And she worried that someday somebody would stifle Harriet's exuberance.†   (source)
  • The crowd, still growing, took no notice of its problems and clapped and yelled exuberantly as it disappeared.†   (source)
  • Everyone liked Bree: her sense of adventure, her exuberance.†   (source)
  • I have seen the Nisei in anger, in exuberant spirits, enthusiasm and despair, in the quiet stillness of resignation or renunciation—I've worked beside them in canneries, on farms, in Red Cross groups—I've seen them in poverty and in luxury, in cabins and stuccoed residences, struggling for higher education on meager earnings, or cushioned through college by a parent's wealth—I've known them as mill hands, lumberjacks, clerks, dressmakers, stenos, domestic servants—I've watched them waltz and jitterbug, play baseball, tennis, rugby, golf, and Ping-Pong—I've known them in sickness and in health, at weddings and births and face to face with death.†   (source)
  • His mom gave him a quick hug and his dad shook his hand with exuberant masculinity.†   (source)
  • I had asked Ghosh why this might be, and he postulated that the instruments used on Shiva at birth might have caused the bones of his head to heal in this "exuberant" manner.†   (source)
  • Without further encouragement, the boy gave his grandmother an exuberant hug before he bolted out of the shelter and ran all the way home.†   (source)
  • The boy-a stocky, sharp-eyed, talkative towhead of about twelve-was exuberantly grateful, but the old man, whose face was seamed and yellow, feebly crawled into the back seat and slumped there silently.†   (source)
  • BENEATHA enters, carrying a guitar case, and watches her exuberant sister-in-law.†   (source)
  • Kelly turns off the lights and everyone stands close as Boston's exuberant fireworks explode over the Charles River, lighting their astonished faces.†   (source)
  • Among the Virginia gentry who had taken up fox hunting with an exuberance no less than to be found on the country estates of England, Washington stood out.†   (source)
  • She was a tall, earthy, exuberant girl with long hair and a pretty face, a buxom, delightful, flirtatious girl.†   (source)
  • I spent almost six years under supervision by the feds, reporting monthly to my pretrial supervisor, an earnest young woman with an exuberantly curly mullet and an office in the federal court building down on Pearl Street in Manhattan.†   (source)
  • Jean was her normal, exuberant self, happy to see Adrienne, happy to be back home, and talking incessantly about the wedding and the old hotel in Savannah where she had stayed.†   (source)
  • "Ah, the exuberance of youth!" he said "Where does it go?"†   (source)
  • "I guess we're the stealth force," he said, looking down at the exuberant badger.†   (source)
  • My mother would call it extraneous, overblown, exuberant.†   (source)
  • THE LAST of their exuberance vacated them at midday, when the sun stood directly overhead.†   (source)
  • Had he been so happy to simply be alive after K2 that his exuberance had colored this place, and these people, beyond reason?†   (source)
  • Smiles greet us as we make our way through the exuberant crowds.†   (source)
  • That is why there has been a natural or instinctive rebellion against rules from Latin grammar imposed on English during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries because certain purists of the day thought our language had grown messy, like an unweeded garden, after the exuberance of Shakespeare and other Elizabethans.†   (source)
  • I propped my forehead on my elbowed hand and steeled myself for the cackle from Auntie Braxton and the laugh, which reminded me of an exuberant tuba, that would come from the Captain.†   (source)
  • I'm happy to hear and see all their high-country exuberance but don't comment much, just keep eating.†   (source)
  • Beneath the controlled exterior there was an exuberant, childlike quality about her.†   (source)
  • These manage to dampen the exuberant growth of bacteria.†   (source)
  • They sang exuberantly and with a mocking tone.†   (source)
  • Would she look any more exuberant if she'd been given an interview with the president?†   (source)
  • They were heading for a competition in the home of the best baseball in the world, yet they seemed eager and unafraid, displaying only the exuberance of youth and its unfettered optimism.†   (source)
  • Tonight, the slim, exuberant woman was screeching out her lyrics against the scream of trumpets, the brass waved by a three-piece female band on the holoscreen backdrop.†   (source)
  • There's a Brazilian samba she stamps to in bare feet, waving her arms until she is flushed end exuberant with the rhythm of the drums.†   (source)
  • He cleared the stream with a wide margin, and he went too high, merely from exuberance.†   (source)
  • She has written a number of books, including An Unquiet Mind and Exuberance: The Passion for Life.†   (source)
  • Jon is big on purity, but only in art: it doesn't apply to his housekeeping, which is an exuberant protest against all mothers and especially his own.†   (source)
  • A block later he passed a park where, in spite of the heat, a young family—with three laughing children—was playing Frisbee with an exuberant Golden Retriever.†   (source)
  • And what it was about Lelia that I desired and feared came partly through his bloodline running through her, the openness and exuberance and all that hard focus she could sometimes call up.†   (source)
  • And the exuberant mayor threw his straw boater hat high into the air.†   (source)
  • Children yelped, exuberant.†   (source)
  • Last in his class at West Point, he makes up for a lack of wisdom with a lusty exuberance.†   (source)
  • In a cheerful and exuberant voice, I shouted, "Good times have come your way!"†   (source)
  • Heidi was nowhere near him—she was racing around the perimeter with her usual exuberance—but Stem whistled and she came bounding up the porch steps.†   (source)
  • He moved his face toward hers, toward those exuberant lips.†   (source)
  • Nathan especially was in exuberant mood.†   (source)
  • "Improvise," Pig said exuberantly.†   (source)
  • In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.†   (source)
  • Sophie, infected by his exuberance, clutched Nathan's arm and glowed like a madonna, gazing at me as if I were the author of War and Peace.†   (source)
  • He returned from the cellar a changed man—exuberant, expansive, tyrannical.†   (source)
  • For he hopped around the bush boy like an exuberant puppy, his shrill questioning voice echoing back from the rocks.†   (source)
  • Won't he become exuberant, won't he lose himself to pleasure and power, won't he repeat all of his father's mistakes, won't he perhaps get entirely lost in Sansara?†   (source)
  • Every time they came out into the open, where the space seemed exuberantly to toss its cap into the air, they sat up straight and more comfortably, and breathed sighs of relief.†   (source)
  • What it neglected to mention was the slip I'd made during a moment of exuberance on a television interview when I said, "Among other things I want to find out what happened to the Toomey brothers.†   (source)
  • However, I did see I must stop showing what might be too much exuberance in Aunt Ethel's room, since she was old and not strong, and take things more as they came.†   (source)
  • I once told a friend of mine, in a moment of exuberance, 'I'm gonna be the healthiest old man you ever met!'   (source)
    exuberance = unrestrained joy
  • The dancers are as exuberant as they are talented.
  • In an exuberant moment, she promised to go out with him.
  • On the contrary, I can never recollect having seen him in such exuberant spirits.   (source)
  • "Party up in the common room, Seamus said!" yelled Dean exuberantly.†   (source)
  • The woman spoke with an exuberance that was almost unsettling.†   (source)
  • And I'll change my tie, this one is a little exuberant for the occa-sion...†   (source)
  • On Saturday morning, traffic flowed north toward Athens with the exuberance of a cavalry charge.†   (source)
  • Their exuberant energy level, the literature warned, should not be underestimated.†   (source)
  • He felt almost exuberant as he ran toward the tunnel.†   (source)
  • I grew up exuberant in body but with a nervy, craving mind.†   (source)
  • Simmon followed suit, spitting over the side with a childlike exuberance.†   (source)
  • The long, exuberant adolescence required extra patience from owners.†   (source)
  • He promised it wouldn't dampen Marley's sunny exuberance.†   (source)
  • All that unbridled high-strung exuberance consumed vast amounts of energy.†   (source)
  • As Dr. Jay had predicted, neutering had not diminished Marley's exuberance one bit.†   (source)
  • And what I initially took to be arrogance was looking more and more like exuberance.†   (source)
  • "And my new grandfather!" cried the child exuberantly.†   (source)
  • He walked me to my car, less exuberant than before.†   (source)
  • He was experiencing the exuberance of a god.†   (source)
  • His hatred of mob action notwithstanding, Adams was exuberant over the event.†   (source)
  • responded Captain Black with an exuberant gesture.†   (source)
  • Lee sensed a strange thin quality in his voice, a wavery exuberance.†   (source)
  • She wrapped her arms around him, kissing him exuberantly on the check.†   (source)
  • She was just so ...extraneous, overblown, exuberant.†   (source)
  • A friend presented her with an exuberant Dalmatian as a gift.†   (source)
  • His happiness is deep in him; he cannot keep still with his newfound exuberance.†   (source)
  • In an exuberant letter to Abigail, he called Holland "the greatest curiosity in the world."†   (source)
  • I'd forgotten how exuberant you are," she said, and her tone was disapproving.†   (source)
  • Exuberant fans pushed past the policemen who tried to restrain them from storming the field.†   (source)
  • "The finest day in the world," wrote an exuberant Archibald Robertson.†   (source)
  • Americans, one of them would say, are a wonderful and exuberant people.†   (source)
  • They were frisky, eager and exuberant, and they had all been friends in the States.†   (source)
  • Boston provided a hero's send-off, with cannon salutes and exuberant crowds.†   (source)
  • 'That's right,' the colonel explained exuberantly.†   (source)
  • He, too, kept to a rigorous schedule and was an exuberant talker.†   (source)
  • I had really begun to burst with happiness and pride, sharing Sophie's own radiant exuberance.†   (source)
  • He laughed, exuberant with relief.†   (source)
  • A few months after the return of Aureliano Jose an exuberant woman perfumed with jasmine appeared at the house with a boy of five.†   (source)
  • 'I'm very well indeed, thank you!' said Lockhart exuberantly, pulling a rather battered peacock-feather quill from his pocket.†   (source)
  • I said that my noise and exuberance and his silence were two sides of the same coin, and that I also liked peace and quiet but don't have anything for myself alone, except my diary, and that everyone would rather see the back of me, starting with Mr. Dussel, and that I don't always want to sit with my parents.†   (source)
  • Our exuberance lasted through the first few topics of conversation: how we were doing, what we were up to, how long I had, and what had brought me here.†   (source)
  • I remember that Mama grinned a little when she told me all this self-mockingly, as if to distance herself from this youthful exuberance and foolishness, all those headlong, breathless vows.†   (source)
  • Miss Milhouse would have scolded Harriet soundly; she would have taken it as her personal mission to stifle the little girl's exuberant personality.†   (source)
  • He had been about to conjure for her a private moment of exuberance, a passing impatience with convention, a memory of reading the Orioli edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover, which he had bought under the counter in Soho.†   (source)
  • Elinor listened anxiously to the sounds of the morning for a moment, but there was nothing to be heard apart from the birds, greeting the day as exuberantly as if it were their last.†   (source)
  • Or I wonder now whether it wasn't cider but our own exuberance which intoxicated us, sent restraint flying, causing Brinker to throw the football block on the statue of the Headmaster, giving me, as I put on the skis and slid down the small slope and off the miniature ski jump a sensation of soaring flight, of hurtling high and far through space; inspiring Phineas, during one of Chet's Spanish inventions, to climb onto the Prize Table and with only one leg to create a droll dance among the prizes, springing and spinning from one bare space to another, cleanly missing Hazel Brewster's hair, never marring by a misstep the pictures of Betty Grable.†   (source)
  • Few stories from Greek mythology capture the imagination like that of Daedalus and Icarus: the ingenious father's attempt to save his son from a tyrant as well as from his own invention (the labyrinth) by coming up with an even more marvelous creation; the solemn parental warning ignored in a burst of youthful exuberance; the fall from a great height; a father's terrible grief and guilt.†   (source)
  • The Great Hall was filling up fast when they arrived, the talk louder and the mood more exuberant than usual.†   (source)
  • Though I would have died rather than told anyone, I was worried that my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my nervous system and maybe even my soul in some irreparable and perhaps not readily apparent way.†   (source)
  • Even at seventy-five years of age, Isabel Solomon was an exuberant cook, and tonight the mouthwatering smells of roast venison, parsnip gravy, and garlic mashed potatoes wafted through the house.†   (source)
  • He walked up and down the terrace, taking in the expanse of the land around the house, sighing aloud at the thought of that exuberant nature which could assemble, in the most godforsaken country on the planet, mountains and sea, valleys and sky-scraping peaks, rivers of crystalline water, and a peaceful fauna that allowed you to wander tranquilly without having to worry about poisonous snakes or starving beasts.†   (source)
  • Behind, on the deep lacquer-red walls, Christmas garlands and Soviet-era holiday decorations of wired bulbs and colored aluminum—roosters, nesting birds, red stars and rocket ships and hammer-and-sickles with kitschy Cyrillic slogans (Happy New Year, dear Stalin)—were slung up in exuberant and makeshift-seeming fashion.†   (source)
  • Instead of greeting us at the door in his exuberant manner, he would be standing far back in the room, his head hanging nearly to the floor, his tail flat between his legs, the shame radiating off him.†   (source)
  • Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart.†   (source)
  • Smith pulled a flower out for himself, and in a rare moment of exuberance, heaved the whole blanket into the crowd.†   (source)
  • The festivities that night had been more dissension than celebration-a strange mix of exuberance by those who believed that Justin was indeed destined to deliver them from the Horde with this peace of his, and animosity by those who argued vehemently against any such treasonous betrayal of Elyon.†   (source)
  • And then everyone surrounded me and it seemed that I was washed from the gazebo in an exuberant wave of laughter and congratulations.†   (source)
  • There is forgiveness in our hearts for such young exuberance — as long as betrayal is no part of that arousal, that exuberance.†   (source)
  • The night before I had felt uncomfortable when I saw the men waiting in lines outside the doorways, smoking and taunting and singing to one another as they waited, their exuberance amazingly whole, unattenuated.†   (source)
  • Shouting Max's name, the seven-year-old barreled into him with an energy and exuberance he'd not have imagined possible when he'd stumbled upon her in Blys nearly two years ago.†   (source)
  • It had something to do with his natural exuberance and the way he'd made her feel a part of it; it was the fact that he had lived a life that seemed so different from hers, yet they still spoke the same language, a familiarity that belied the short period they had known each other.†   (source)
  • She lived in a diminutive jewel-box Victorian, Queen Anne style, exuberantly decorated with elaborate millwork.†   (source)
  • And then Thomas married Chelise, surrounded by an exuberant, rejoicing Circle still intoxicated by Justin's love.†   (source)
  • Italian music was bound at all times by the limitations of the human heart, never more exuberant or elated than a heart could be without breaking, or sadder than a heart could be without taking hope.†   (source)
  • Pop was cunning and exuberant.†   (source)
  • And before he'd had a chance to say yes or no, she was back to "Shay shay shay shay!" again, with such exuberance, Ralph didn't have the heart to do anything but nod.†   (source)
  • His sister was on the floor in front of the couch playing with an exuberant Jamie, she having put the infant Alison back into the crib upstairs.†   (source)
  • Thomas exclaims, now almost exuberant.†   (source)
  • Of course I shouldn't have allowed him to address me so familiarly, but we were from the same province and hometown and he was exuberantly innocent and youthful and he never called to me if others were within earshot.†   (source)
  • Some new American verbs may be thought ugly, like prioritize; some too close to the cultural edge, like go commando, from the TV series Friends, meaning to go out without underpants; some too obviously riding the news, like the post-Enron to be 40Ik'd; some extreme psychobabble, as in the film What Women Want, when Helen Hunt says, "I didn't mean to guilt you"; but some just exuberantly creative, as when a flight attendant was overheard saying, "We're late leaving the gate because we overboarded the aircraft, so we're going to comp the headsets in economy."†   (source)
  • That night, Baltimore glittered and rang with exuberant prerace parties, the next day's racegoers singing out "Maryland, My Maryland" as they passed outside the track.†   (source)
  • He'd thrown back his head and was laughing with typical Heath exuberance, and the familiar, sweet, silly sound of it made it really hard for me not to smile at him.†   (source)
  • She imparts a formality and respect to their statements, and they seem to be interviewing for a position rather than telling their story, unceasingly nodding and bowing and grinning exuberantly with the joy of their good fortune.†   (source)
  • But the exuberance of the moment, or any thoughts that grand pronouncements and the toppling of symbolic monuments were sufficient to change the course of history, were quickly dashed in dramatic fashion three days later, on July 12.†   (source)
  • They're the Texas State champions," he blurted out before she had a chance to find the article that was the source of his exuberance.†   (source)
  • It was a short way through the night to Lee's headquarters, and they rode past low sputtering campfires with the spy puffing exuberant blue smoke like a happy furnace.†   (source)
  • 'I'm going to run away,' Yossarian announced in an exuberant, clear voice, already tearing open the buttons of his pajama tops.†   (source)
  • The great day of celebration came Monday, July 8, at noon in theState House Yard, when the Declaration was read aloud before an exuberant crowd.†   (source)
  • "This day the Continental Congress declared the United Colonies Free and Independent States," recorded a young artist newly established in Philadelphia, Charles Willson Peale, exuberant over the news.†   (source)
  • 'No, of course not!' he blurted out, and suddenly was waving both arms toward the door in a gesture of exuberant urgency.†   (source)
  • The weird, implausible reception for Milo began at the airfield, where civilian laborers who recognized him halted in their duties respectfully to gaze at him with full expressions of controlled exuberance and adulation.†   (source)
  • "I think you shine as a stateswoman," he responded exuberantly, and in another letter wrote: Your sentiments of the duties we owe to our country are such as become the best of women and the best of men.†   (source)
  • All professions of Dutch friendship for America were but "little adulations to procure a share of our trade," and now even they had vanished like a vapor, as had his own prior exuberance and admiration for the Dutch.†   (source)
  • In the evening they all trooped exuberantly out to see a lousy Hollywood extravaganza in Technicolor, and when they trooped exuberantly back in after the lousy Hollywood extravaganza, the soldier in white was there, and Dunbar screamed and went to pieces.†   (source)
  • Adam drove exuberantly from farm to farm, picked up dirt and crumbled it in his fingers, talked and planned and dreamed.†   (source)
  • Mark lifted Pig off his feet and the two strong boys spun in a slow, exuberant circle as Tradd and I reached up to slap Pig's large, grinning head.†   (source)
  • It could at times turn into a preoccupying rage that scared her, so quickly was he transformed from his exuberant, rollicking, outgoing self to a desperate soul riddled with anguish.†   (source)
  • He spun himself outward with ceaseless exuberance: he was genuinely and whole-heartedly involved.†   (source)
  • I wondered if it was the same in every home, this feeling of exuberance when visitors had gone.†   (source)
  • And they did not wear their slittered mantle, their gaycoat graceless, from a sense of exuberance.†   (source)
  • No more was heard the hearty and infectious exuberance of her warm, full-throated laugh.†   (source)
  • My wife was in exuberant spirits when, two hours later, I returned to the cabin.†   (source)
  • That is the idea," he said exultantly, in throaty and exuberant burlesque.†   (source)
  • When the doctor nodded, he continued exuberantly: "And there's no reason for it to stop now.†   (source)
  • There was in him demonic exuberance, a wild intelligence that did not come from the brain.†   (source)
  • The air was charged with murderous exuberance, rioting and corrupt extravagance.†   (source)
  • But this rather tawdry exuberance was only one aspect of the town that day; not a few of those filling the streets at sundown, among them Rambert and his wife, hid under an air of calm satisfaction subtler forms of happiness.†   (source)
  • On the stage I saw an animal tamer—a cheap-jack gentleman with a pompous air—who in spite of a large moustache, exuberantly muscular biceps and his absurd circus getup had a malicious and decidedly unpleasant resemblance to myself.†   (source)
  • The autumnal mood possessed us both as though the riotous exuberance of June had died with the gillyflowers, whose scent at my windows now yielded to the damp leaves, smoldering in a corner of the quad.†   (source)
  • He objects, with some justification, to the raggedness of Shakespeare's plays, the irrelevancies, the incredible plots, the exaggerated language: but what at bottom he probably most dislikes is a sort of exuberance, a tendency to take-not so much a pleasure as simply an interest in the actual process of life.†   (source)
  • Bigger listened to the tone of their voices, to their strange accents, to the exuberant phrases that flowed so freely from their lips.†   (source)
  • And once in about five years he would break out in a kind of wild, free, exuberant gaiety like a levee break streaming out to snatch the trees and brush up by the roots, and you would be the trees and brush.†   (source)
  • Exuberantly.†   (source)
  • Frail, fine-boned, so white of skin that her flaming hair seemed to have drawn all the color from her face into its vital burnished mass, she was nevertheless possessed of exuberant health and untiring energy.†   (source)
  • It wasn't hide-bound and stick-in-themuddish like the older towns and it had a brash exuberance that matched her own.†   (source)
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