Word: gusto
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...ballads "My Heart Won't Lie" and "Hold Me for a While" are enjoyable, but lack the gusto that makes others on the album stand out. Perhaps these songs would appeal more to the "adult contemporary" crowd. "Hold me, fold me in your arms/Baby be my refuge and keep me from the storm/Will you enclose me, keep the villain out/Darling isn't that what you and I are all about..." ("Hold Me for a While"). These songs are perfect for a romantic evening on board a cruise ship, with a gentle breeze and a sky full of stars...
...hypothetical situations in which cloning might happen, then examine the likely implications. The only real difference is that ethicists respect the laws of plausibility and don't waste much time on scenarios that probably won't ever come to pass. Science-fiction writers trash those same laws with creative gusto...
...that means writing about losses and mistakes with as much energy and gusto as victories or clutch plays. When the athlete errs, it's the sportswriter's responsibility to explain the "what" and "why," to dissect the moment and explain its significance. To do otherwise, to let an important--albeit unpleasant--moment pass without articulating its meaning, would deny the essence and demean the importance of the entire endeavor...
...structure of time in this family saga reminds one, inevitably, of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, However, with its wistful quality and its preoccupation with love in extreme old age, Hijuelos' book bears a closer affinity to Love in the Time of Cholera. A Pantagruclian gusto concerning sea, food, and bodily functions also informs the novel...
Holmes' version does regain its gusto by the final scene, when Kitri and Basilio marry after successfully foiling Gamache and Lorenzo. The townspeople join in the extravagant celebration with waving fans and clattering castanets, but the highlight of the finale is the grande pas de deux. Sevillano enchants Armand with her coquetishness and bedazzles the audience with her technical skill. She skips delicately across the stage en pointe, slices through the air with split-second leaps and performs multiple pirouettes and fouette turns with luscious ease. Armand tosses his head more sexily than ever while leaping in furious circles about...