Word: gustos
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...darkest hours of the financial crisis now behind us, so too, Cooperman believes, are the stock-market lows of March, not likely to be seen again anytime soon. "The lows [of this stock-market cycle] are in," he flatly told his audience. He then repeated the line with gusto, as if to jog a crowd still paralyzed with fear in the wake of the losses suffered earlier this year...
...smart contrast to the manic Travolta, who's channeling his strutting killer from Face/Off (an annoying switch from Shaw's steely British mercenary). Tony Scott, who did Top Gun and the earlier Washington movies Crimson Tide, Déjà Vu and Man on Fire, directs with his trademark gusto and a surfeit of many circling camera movements. A congestion of cars, arranged as carefully as clusters of Rockettes, isn't traffic; it's just the backdrop for a spectacular crash...
Eliot: Although its game of Assassins wrapped during reading period, one Eliot contestant deserves a special mention for creativity, creepiness, and gusto for the fine art of the kill...
...silliness has always been the currency of the best power-pop. Cheap Trick were so successful in part because of how cheerful they were about their triviality, delivering the lines “I want you to want me / I need you to need me” with unabashed gusto. Tinted Windows fail to match up to Cheap Trick in part because the rest of the album fails to maintain the melodic quality of the first three songs. Power pop sans hooks is music that has entirely lost its raison d’être, and most of the album...
...Artists had their skill to display, and they did so with gusto: combining many figures for maximum drama - see the Florentine Ewer with the Triumph of Neptune (circa 1721) - or freeze-framing a body falling into ecstasy or death, as in a small Bernini clay sketch for Tomb of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni (circa 1761-74). Baroque went way over the top and beyond, and this exhibition is the perfect way to revel...