Word: buoyantly
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Nearly 100 buoyant singles arrived at a low-lit downtown lounge and were outfitted with name tags, numbers and score-cards. The women stayed seated while the men hustled among them, meeting for three minutes apiece in a highly structured, musical chairs--style round robin. The sessions are designed for equal numbers of both sexes, but women outnumbered men at this event, so each woman ended up with unexpected (but welcome) rest periods...
...bring down nonwage labor costs. The business community was dubious. "The proposals are not enough to turn the economy around on their own, let alone to cure the long-term structural malaise," said Holger Schmieding, European economist at Bank of America in London. "If more buoyant global demand does not come to the rescue soon, Germany will remain in deep trouble." - By Charles P. Wallace/Berlin Reconstructive Criticism It was about as discreet as a Rumsfeld one-liner: the U.S. has requested bids for $900 million to rebuild Iraq, using only American companies - including Vice President Cheney's old firm Halliburton...
...film doesn't exude much hope, its director does. "I've had nothing but faith and love for this film from start to finish," he says. "I had no doubt this was a great film." Palestine's first movie celebrity has reason to feel buoyant. For all its death and despair, Divine Intervention has a pinwheeling, tragi-comic verve that leaves a complicitous smile on the viewer's face. Or is it a rictus...
From the very beginning of Trent Lott's fourth attempt to apologize, the tone was all wrong. The Senate Republican leader seemed forceful, composed, even buoyant--but not at all bowed, contrite or shaken. The words said sorry, but the attitude didn't. By the end of the press conference, Lott was actually grinning. It was as if he wasn't aware that when a major politician in 2002 needs to assure the nation that he repudiates racial segregation, the game has already been lost. It was as if he still didn't grasp the hideousness of what...
...film's later duels might lack the buoyant grandeur of Yuen Wo-ping's action scenes in Crouching Tiger, but they have a stateliness that suits the gravity of the plot. These are working warriors with a deadly goal. Several of them are also artists and calligraphers. They believe that every stroke of the pen or the blade must be justified. They don't fight to dazzle; they fight to kill...