Word: gusto
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...other work in the canon shows more formally patterned structure and diction. Yet in this apprentice play Shakespeare wrote with unsurpassed gusto, letting the lines pour forth in torrents and saying things in several ways instead of choosing the best. The result was a ripsnorting melodrama that offered Elizabethas what horror movies provide us today. Richard III lacks the subtlety, artistry and development that we see in his nearest relatives, Macbeth and logo. And the whole play moves straightforwardly, putting few difficulties in our way except for a confusing genealogy...
...cancellations proved a boon for ordinary Soviets, who got the unused tickets. They were as boisterous as old Brooklyn Dodger fans, though relying on ear-splitting whistles instead of clanging cowbells. Countrymen were cheered lustily, as long as they were winning, and foreign rivals were jeered, with gusto. The racket was deafening for visiting pole vaulters, who are accustomed to the polite silence accorded a golfer bending over his putt. Wladislaw Kozakiewicz of Poland finally shut up the unruly crowds with a world record (18 ft. 11 ½in.), then defiantly shook his arm at them. Said he: "The public...
Using computers for seismic surveys, and new drilling technologies to dig deeper, geologists are looking everywhere, from the frozen Arctic to the jungles of Africa and South America. With bet-a-billion gusto, they are searching for new energy Eldorados...
Isaac Stern plays strings and pulls them with equal gusto...
...left." Then, in the best tradition of the stridency that has marked public life in Iran since the Shah's overthrow, one of the mullahs jumped to his feet and shouted: "Hail to Khomeini! Hail to the martyrs!" The other representatives took up the refrain with gusto...