Word: joviality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Boyle talked about one such fighter, “the teacher,” whom she described as a “kind, jovial guy” who hated Saddam Hussein...
...work inside a place like Palmer-Dixon. It takes a rarer talent to convert that practice into wins—13 in the Ivies last year, to be exact. Walsh, Harvard’s head coach, has it in spades. He’s a salty old cod, a jovial man bent on making games worth playing: he hasn’t had a losing Ivy season in ten years...
...fact, just ask anyone—coach, player, and referee, apparently—and you’ll begin to realize one thing: Brian Edwards is exhilarating on the field, jovial off it, and defiant of convention...
Obama is charismatic, but not in a jovial, Clintonian kind of way. He is intense, surprisingly so. He has a way of telling you something as if it's the only time he has told it to anyone (even if, like all politicians, he is working you with the same line he has used at every ballroom in the state). His brow is almost always furrowed, and his voice is deep, even somber, despite his boyish face...
Within the confines of a small blue room—whistling and singing to the tune of “Hollywood”—a jovial Frank T. Pasquarello awaits the countdown that will beam his image over local television to homes throughout Cambridge...