With a light load, the sedan with the smaller engine is surprisingly lively.

They have written a surprisingly lively - and disturbing - tale of bureaucratic vexation.

While most intelligent discussion shows about film come with a heavy dose of pomposity, this one is modest and surprisingly lively.

Last year in these pages, Evan Thomas found this "a surprisingly lively - and disturbing - tale of bureaucratic vexation."

Sougia has two open-air clubs that can get surprisingly lively for such a small resort.

Instead, it turned its engineers loose to work their magic, and the result is a surprisingly lively and engaging car.

We can cite a dramatic increase in mortgage refinancing at a pace that seems surprisingly lively, given the recession.

Hischak described the original cast album as "surprisingly lively and mostly enjoyable for a musical that was considered so dull on stage."

The image was surprisingly lively, given the primitive medium.

That is how this surprisingly lively new series came by its droll promotional slogan, "You've just been bumped down the food chain."