Massive, bearded, and profane, the most persistent and humane hero to be seen in any recent movie, Strada rushes around the front with two companions, an implacable British nurse, Kate Rowlands, and a veteran Italian journalist, Ettore Mo, a chipper old man who prospers in the midst of disaster — Mo's gaiety is a kind of tinkling obbligato running through the first part of the movie.
One of those citizens was a chipper young man in a Newsies cap who was running for office in Fairbanks and had just started up a local chapter of the Second Amendment Task Force, a national organization of people who think guns are where it's at.
— With the chain saw man working from above and the wood chipper man working from below, removing one of the last trees on the newly cleared lot at Bay Drive and Nassau Street here took all of an hour the other day.
Trying not to loose his cool, King Herod assembles a bunch of big shots to ask these three overly chipper men where this 'Christ' was to be born.
Three weeks later I received a call from a chipper middle-aged man asking me to come in for an interview.
She played a chipper mix of dance and hip-hop until the early morning.
The opening page of each story in "Third Class Superhero" bears a faint portrait of a chipper cold-war-era man who grins broadly beneath his perfect Brylcreemed haircut.
But, within weeks, he was at work on a chipper mural for the men's lounge at Radio City Music Hall: orchestrated virilities of smoking, card playing, motoring, horse racing, sailing, and a barber pole.
Yes, when I got on the train this morning, I was in a chipper -- albeit sleepy -- mood, and the grumpy man next to me initially took that away from me.
An unnamed protagonist transforms from a chipper boy sitting wide-eyed in front of a TV screen to a weathered, aging man watching the world turn into a living hell around him.
