Word: buoyantly
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...better world than ours in which plum roles were awarded solely on merit, Matthew Broderick probably wouldn't have landed the lead in Broadway's buoyant revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. New York City's army of unemployed actors must include a number of winsome unknowns who can dance more crisply and sing more surely than...
Matthew Broderick may have landed the lead in Broadway's buoyant revival of the 1961 musical on name recognition alone, but it's hard to begrudge him the part. As J. Pierrepont Finch, the World Wide Wicket Co.'s window washer turned mailroom clerk turned rising executive, Broderick "brings the same quizzical intensity of gaze and naturalness of gesture that carried him to stardom in everything from Neil Simon comedies to the Civil War epic film Glory," says TIME contributor Brad Leithauser. As satire goes, Leithauser adds, director Des McAnuff's amiable version "lacks even some of the mild bite...
...Capriati's young and cheerful demeanor helped silence the critics. A child as buoyant and free-loving as Capriati could never get sick of her favorite pastime...
...past forty years, Spero has dealtextensively with victimage and brutality, war andrape, internal despair and historic cruelty. Hercurrent work is almost buoyant, featuringascending, leaping female figures and bright,giddy colors...
...such delineations. He writes of a society grounded in family and memory of the Civil War. Nathan's father was named for Confederate general Braxton Bragg, and many years later he gives his own youngest boy the same name. Trudie, Nathan's mother, was the youngest of the three buoyant, beautiful Tucker sisters, all widowed early, who dominate the hero's childhood and the first half of this funny, rueful novel of morals and manners. The other figure who keeps recurring and who comes to obsess Nathan is the women's brooding "outside" -- or illegitimate -- cousin, Aubrey Bradshaw...