Word: zestfulness
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...Tabasco: "Mosquito" The 130-year-old red-pepper sauce provided zest during a 1997 Super Bowl full of commercial clunkers. When a mosquito bites someone consuming Tabasco and explodes seconds later, you don't have to live on a bayou to appreciate the piquant sauce's power...
Jessica's zest for life is something mother imparted to daughter. Since she was seven, Jessica had witnessed her plucky mom battle angiosarcoma (cancer of the vascular system), which claimed her life 14 days after Jessica's interview with Time. Patty cherished life, says Tackett, and in that way "Jessica is so much like her." --Reported by Leslie Everton Brice/Conyers...
...book's subtitle, "Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable." A host of other characters parade through the book as well; in aristocratic Creole New Orleans three or even two degrees of separation applied. Benfey delves into this byzantine web of relationships with zest, retrieving kernels of enthralling although often irrelevant fact. In his introduction, he mentions that as he wrote the book he had to force characters he "had once chosen for starring roles" to recede from the forefront of his tale, but these characters remain burgeoning starlets...
Herschbach, who calls the experience of being a House Master "strenuous" and "special," is known for taking on new projects with zest. At the age of 45, he began playing the viola after being inspired by his daughters' musical interests...
...second half of the concert went to the Pastoral Symphony, one of those old favorites that many can hum from start to finish. The orchestra attacked it with zest and did a fine job handling this picturesque masterpiece. However, with so well known a piece, any orchestra has to work that much harder to present the music in an engaging and expressive manner. That extra oomph was lacking in the Bach Soc's standard, somewhat unoriginal interpretation of the symphony. The most lyrical moments sometimes came across as a bit too brisk and deliberate--as, for example, in the famous...