Word: gusto
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When Captain Charlie Thomas was asked to describe sophomore Felix Adedeji before the soccer season began, he said. "Felix has the strength of a Bogovitch, the ball control of a Kydes, the gusto of a Gomez, and a little something of his own besides...
...watching over the bargaining sessions and the eventual enforcement of pay-price rules. He has given that job to Connally, who will now have a vastly expanded stage on which to play his roles of charmer and back-room arm twister. Connally has plunged into the task with gusto. At a televised press conference last Friday, he was incisive, seemingly candid, pleasant and shrewdly disarming enough to give Spiro Agnew still more reason to fear for his spot on the Republican ticket next year...
Thomas considers Adedeji a worthy replacement for last year's captain Solomon Gomez. "Felix has an all-around style. He has the strength of Bogovitch, the gusto of Gomez, the ball control of Kydes, and a little something of his own," Thomas said...
...directs his actors in the same manner that a red light may be said to direct patrons. No matter. Pornography is customarily, in Nabokov's fine phrase, a copulation of clichés. Not here. Garfield takes this insanely, inanely plotted movie and lends each scene a Rabelaisian gusto and surprise. His movements are reminiscent of the hippopotamus in rutting season; his expressions are unique. Who else could register such dismay when he finds that he has been making love to a corpse? Who else could transmit such concern for the girl who replaces her lover with a personal...
...drawl that her name was Nannie Leah Washburn, and that she had traveled all the way from Atlanta to lie down in front of cars in a traffic circle. "I was born a rebel and I'll always be a rebel," she croaked, and the crowd cheered with gusto. When she told them it was her 71st birthday, she was rewarded with a thundering chorus of Happy Birthday...