peppiness

But a day later, his unbridled peppiness had returned.

Kodak's new peppiness is no aberration; it has been institutionalized.

And there is a new peppiness and look of engagement to the numbers the ensemble's three dancers perform after that act.

Credit for the peppiness goes to the allies and antagonists of Ms. Hill, who devour the camera.

Nobody on another continent has yet achieved the delicate balance of peppiness, boosterism and dementia that industrial music demands.

The peppiness, the high-def sets, the hyper-bright colors, the manic guffawing.

But there's a peppiness to her choreography here that banishes mortal shadows and recalls the far superior swing dancing in "Contact."

Too much peppiness can be as depressing as a Seattle drizzle and flabby legs and buns.

Veal shish kebab with special sauce had a welcome peppiness, even though veal is alien to most Chinese menus.

You are unlikely to see such industrious peppiness and such alarmingly fixed smiles anywhere else this side of a Miss America runway.

The second, a funny, scary account of a disastrous family vacation in Ethiopia, belongs to her mother, an amalgam of social peppiness and canned weltschmerz.

The plot of this "Wedding Singer," directed with bland peppiness by John Rando, sticks closely to that of the movie.

Meredith Scott Lynn invests the protagonist with a certain sensitivity and Danielle Ferland adds peppiness as her longtime best friend.

Certain authors emphasize peppiness and humor as attributes of his music (and personality) which, depending on the (musical) context turn at instances into parody and grotesque.

The chat segments meandered, despite Mr. Stoltzman's peppiness and Mr. Foss's wry humor.

Then there is the magnetic LaChanze (of "Once on This Island"), who manages to sustain Viveca's hard-smiling peppiness without turning tedious.

Most of the humor is supplied not by Shanté or Keith - her put-together peppiness and his nice-guy passivity grow tired pretty quickly - but by their friends.

The heightened brightness of all the ingredients - the eye-searing design palette, the bouncy orchestrations, the industrious peppiness of the cast - perversely meld into a general gray dimness.

But there is a dark side to the ostensible peppiness, starting with the tone color of the two solo cellos and continuing with some oddly angled arm positions and frozen poses.

But the approach also lends itself to a certain level of sanitizing peppiness that can recall the way Top 40 hits used to be transformed into revue numbers for television shows like Carol Burnett's.

The one performer who makes us forget about Mr. Martin is Ms. Foster, who has hitherto been known for her exhausting peppiness in shows like "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Little Women."

While we gravitated to the Thai dishes on the menu, hoping for a fiery peppiness, we found that the Chinese entrees - like the spicy duck (another signature dish) and Sichuan beef - were on the whole more successful.

It was not her best performance--some of the sassiness sadly seemed sucked out of her, and I longed for the old soul of "I'd Rather Go Blind" or even the peppiness of "Walking On Sunshine."

It's evident in the too-bright, predatory smile of Ms. Nixon's aging flapper; in the artificial peppiness of Robert Joy's bleached-out, exhausted-looking Paul Sears, Fred's songwriting partner; in the lonely brittleness of Albert Macklin's arch piano player.

As Pam's mother, Blythe Danner has an out-of-it Yankee eccentricity of her own, and most of the supporting cast members - like Kali Rocha as the flight attendant who uses her peppiness as a weapon - are fully invested in their roles.