Word: joyous
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...communicable crush on life. She's got a lean, almost Twiggy figure, long arms, and a lilting voice. More of a pop than a jazz singer, she goes against all cabaret conventions. She opens with downbeat tunes such as I'm All Smiles, and then follows with joyous ballads - Let Your self Go, Nothing Can Stop Me Now, Sunny - achieving an intense dramatic vocal projection that plays an audience much as Streisand does...
...breathes and says to the world, T'm here,' there's something quite cosmic about it. We're all here. All in harmony. Only the chords are different. I play about the unity of everything. The love, the totality-like bringing everyone together in a joyous dance. I play love vibrations...
...superiority, Goans rejected the merger with Maharashtra by a vote of 172,191 to 138,170. In the territorial capital of Panjim, the results were cheered by a crowd of 10,000, who danced in the streets carrying branches symbolic of victory, set off firecrackers, and created such a joyous disturbance that the government had to call in police with tear gas to restore order. Goa is not yet gone...
...filling the Temple of Solomon with blood has been the dark paradox of religious faith in every time and place. Just and holy wars are incompatible. The just war is predicated on awareness of human intemperateness, inadequacy and guilt; the holy war drowns all that in the joyous, irresponsible assumption of being an instrument of God's will. In this respect, Protestantism was no different from the Church of Rome. Luther and Calvin reworked Augustine's just-war doctrines, but the religious wars following the Reformation and periodic outbursts of heresy-hunting discarded the Sermon on the Mount...
...breadth and projection of a contralto, says one camp. Ah, yes, but the Strad has the clarity and finesse of a soprano, counters the other. That Stradivari enjoys a more illustrious reputation, says Heifetz, is because "he had a better pressagent." Actually, claims Jascha, "the Guarneri is a joyous woman, richly experienced in life; the Stradivari is a young, unsophisticated girl...