Word: gustos
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...band performed with gusto throughout the long show, and it seemed especially to enjoy the medley at the end which combined popular melodies from the past 50 years...
...walked on the square, some taking pictures of each other. Nearer the Monument to the People's Heroes, a crew of workers were dismantling a wooden structure used as decorations during the Chinese lunar new year festivities. At one corner, near Mao's Mausoleum, six teenagers played soccer with gusto. A few blocks away from the square, a group of residents walked up to the gate of Deng Xiaoping's city residence to offer a paper-wreath. Guards at the gate accepted the wreath and nervously told the visitors to go home." U.S. anaylsts believe that Deng's death...
Corinne Funk's Nov. 19 column "How to Get Good Grades," deserves an "A." Getting excited about a course or paper; taking charge and reading, writing or creating with synthesis and gusto; feeling empowered to go beyond the bounds of the assignment to integrate and think--this is what learning is about. How ironic that it is often when one becomes less concerned about grades and more concerned about learning that better grades ensue. --Robert Read, Ed.D., Psychologist, Bureau of Study Counsel
...that this novel, her third, is simply a misstep. Perhaps she has gone to the well once too often: A Regular Guy has the same theme as much of her earlier work--a child searching for a lost father--and it lacks the energy and rude gusto of Anywhere but Here. As for Owens, he loses his company, but in the end he is doing just fine on a diet of nuts, fruits and cauliflower, a gentler superman...
...provided one. With gusto. Over his book's 177 pages, he calls the Seminar "a 10-year exercise in academic self-promotion" and a "self-indulgent charade" and accuses Funk of "grandiosity and hucksterism." More substantively, not only does he find the Seminar wildly unrepresentative of scholarly consensus on the New Testament today; he thinks it "extraordinarily difficult" to avoid the impression that it is not hostile "to any traditional understanding of Jesus as defined by the historic creeds of Christianity...