Word: zestful
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...celery is always wonderful," said Mrs. Mildred Mackenzie, a plump, pleasant housewife. "In midsummer, our delphiniums will grow nine feet high." With matronly zest, she waved round her garden, still deep in snow. "You never tasted vegetables as good as the ones we grow, and you should see our poppies and sweet peas...
...decision made, Harry Truman, President of the U.S., was talking like a new man. In some ways, he sounded a good bit like Candidate Harry Truman, yearning for the whistle stops again. But to the old back-platform folksiness and give-em-hell zest, he had added another quality: the regardless candor of a man who is soon to become plain Harry Truman, U.S. citizen...
...Idler Players have given life and zest to Claire Booth Luce's witty comedy, The Women. True, there is little originality in the plot which concerns woman's unceasing efforts to hold on to her husband. But an enthusiastic cast, headed by Sandi Rosman as Mary and Sheila Flaherty as Sylvia, has made it an amusing and, at times, very funny play...
...thing about Novelist Erskine Caldwell: he plays no regional favorites. He sniffs out fictional meanness and degeneracy with the zest of a Berkshire in a barnyard, and he imagines them as readily in staid old New England as he does in the meaner stretches of Georgia. Actually the region doesn't matter. By now, Caldwell's characters are not so much recognizable people as mass-produced toys which squeak set speeches and make appropriate gestures when wound up. In Episode in Palmetto (1950) he blessedly called a halt to the "cyclorama of Southern life" that got its start...
...sticking up for the existence of demonic possession, the authors readily concede that many people reportedly "possessed by the Devil" probably belong in the psychiatrist's consulting room, not the chapel. The frantic witch burnings of the 16th century, furthermore, in which Protestants and Catholics participated with equal zest, are explained in Satan largely as the products of their times. This heyday of witch burnings, black Masses (i.e., profane renderings of the Catholic Mass) and Devil worship, writes Belgian Scholar Emile Brouette, represented "the dawn of the false empire of Satan in a Europe gripped by religious and moral...