Word: zestfulness
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...approached all his lectures and writings with enormous zest which he passed on to his students," Montgomery added...
What his personal history has cost Skvorecky, only he can measure. But in the process of recording his pain he lends a keen zest to the act of living and writing. So this is what the novel has been! So this is what the novel can still be! Readers for whom contemporary fiction has meant obligatory searches for self-fulfillment or another go-around at suburban malaise may never be the same...
...short, Ferraro is a New Deal Democrat with a good seasoning of traditional family values. Like Walter Mondale, she thrives on schmoozing, gladhanding, doing favors. Her zest for politicking suggests that she will be a sturdy campaigner this summer and fall. But she also shares some of Mondale's political liabilities. The television camera may treat her unkindly, as it does Mondale, though for a different reason. Mondale often comes across on the tube as wooden and buttoned up. Ferraro can be animated, but her edgy, fast-talking style is hot for the cool medium. Her Queens accent might...
...There he goes again!" The President then nodded with zest: "I would look forward to a debate." He smoothly exploited the advantages of incumbency. Questioned about the fairness of the Reagan Revolution, he insisted that the Administration is "helping more people and paying more money than ever in the history of this country in all of those social programs." He allowed that 850,000 presumably undeserving people had been cut off from food stamps, but insisted that more than that number of needy people get them...
...should have recognized then: that being anything outside of New York City in any election position is not for me. I'm like a fish out of water. It showed my spirit at the time...I didn't convey to the organization that was supporting me the kind of zest for the mayoral...