Word: buoyant
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That depth of feeling can still be found in A Dead Hand, with its farewell to one more Asian destination set "adrift in the greasy current with the flotsam of old fruit, rotting coconuts, curls of plastic and, sliding like scum from the ghats upriver, the buoyant ashes of human remains." Theroux pulls few punches and his authorial hand, like his wandering eye, seems far from stilled...
...India posted inspiring 7.9% growth and the results out of tiny Taiwan, one of the economies slammed the hardest by the global recession, were so impressive one economist beamed that the island "got its groove on." Stock markets, aside from a downward blip here and there, have generally been buoyant. During this season of Thanksgiving and holiday cheer, there seems to be good reason to give thanks and be cheerful...
...dancers; large group dances were often slightly out of sync and less elegant than smaller, more intimate pairs of dancers. However, the cameo performance by the Harvard Irish College Dancers “Corcairdhearg,” simply entitled “Rhythm of Ireland,” remained buoyant and well-arranged in spite of its large size. A small group of dancers bounced up and down effortlessly, moving only their legs in a fluid, precise line dance. Then, the rest of the company unexpectedly entered, tapping out a pulsing rhythm in an impressive and elegant footwork sequence that...
...Translation: global markets will remain buoyant longer than expected as the short-sellers are forced to cover their anti-China bets and the unbelievers finally come around and belatedly take long positions. For the sake of 1.3 billion Chinese and the rest of us, let's hope it's Jim O'Neill that's right, rather than Jim Chanos...
Where once there had been something congested and strenuous about Gorky's paint application, his clotted surfaces began to give way to Matta's thin washes of color. And now there's a slender, buoyant new line that darts all around the canvas, lightly defining swelling forms, with borders as thin as soap bubbles', just tight enough to create a sense of release when bursts of red or yellow pop them. You sense that this is the bouncing, eternal line of freedom and pleasure, one that traces back to the airborne arcs of those young women on swings in Fragonard...