Word: gusto
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...plays the succulent part of Scrooge with delightful gusto, whether barking at charity solicitors, cringing before ghosts, demoniacally fleecing a business associate or lavishing favors on a startled Cratchit. Sim gets his best support from Kathleen Harrison, who expands the Dickens vignette of Scrooge's glum charwoman into a life-size comic portrait. Sample: the hilariously ghoulish scene that shows her cheerfully plying the rag & bones man with Scrooge's deathbed effects...
Between Sittings, Jo Davidson's autobiography, is just like his sculpture. Short on profundity, it glows with gusto and innocence. Those who come to it for dazzling impressions of people and places will find nothing but what they already know, e.g., that Israel is "the birthplace of our civilization," that Gandhi looked like "a holy man," that Will Rogers specialized in "nuggets of wisdom." Luckily, the bulk of Between Sittings is not about what Jo thought and did between sittings, at all. It is about the hell of a life he led cooping pawky big shots into a corner...
Heavier drinkers are more often members of college athletic teams, drink during the season more, and celebrate the end of the season with more gusto and more consumption. "Perhaps," Pugh suggests, "the report throws a light on some of the recent records of Harvard athletic teams." Of the 25 athletes in the survey, 12 drank during the season...
...turned out some breathtaking ones in melodramatic black, blue and crimson. Then the Gypsy Azucena (Sonia Arova) lashed into a dance to Verdi's crackling Stride lavampa music, and Page and the dancers were in full command. In the Anvil Chorus, the dancers whirled with so much gusto that the crowd could hardly keep from stomping out the rhythm with them. Standout scene: Azucena's duet with Manrico, her foster-son and the instrument of her revenge against the aristocratic Di Luna family. The ballet, like the opera, ended in a flood of blood, with Azucena, Manrico...
...Munch began the concert with Beethoven's Eighth Symphony. Possessing neither the grandeur of the Seventh Symphony nor the sublimity of the Ninth, it has a boisterous spontaneity all its own. The orchestra, after a shaky start, played with gusto and precision, and Munch captured all the Viennese high-spirits which this piece requires...