In eschewing the usual cliched images of hands-in-the-air abandon, McConnell's more measured documentary portraits caught that uneasy mix of vulnerability and toughness that teenagers – even those in search of ecstasy-fuelled transcendence – often exude.
Whether or not the classic rock reference points are by design, it feels structured in the same way a series of guitar riffs scorching a sneering vocal, all of it designed to provoke lighters-in-the-air abandon.
The former was designed to compel him to seek cover, the latter, being heavier than air, to abandon it on pain of suffocation.
The Giants went to the air with abandon because Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis was single-handedly shutting down Tiki Barber's running attempts.
Laundry does not scream FUN! Laundry does not make me want to throw all of my clothes in the air with abandon like Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby.
Roth turned the sexless narrator into a young girl, but other than that it was the only piece that required no changes, as the original evokes a thrilling Sendak-ian air of abandon.
In "Asolo," which is far less physical than Ms. Muller's other works, Mr. Smith crashes to the floor and leaps in the air with abandon but always returns to the same spot in the middle of the stage to stare pointedly at the audience as he speaks.
The new rules would also allow 17,000 existing power plants to dump pollutants into the air with abandon.
The militants lost Tal Abyad, a crucial border crossing with Turkey, last week to an assault by Kurdish militiamen backed by coalition air strikes, abandoning the city and retreating to Raqqa, the self-proclaimed caliphate's seat of power in Syria.
When they played one of those songs of the early 1980s, to which everyone does the same preposterous routine with their arms in the air, we abandoned all dignity and did that too…." I shall try to get that image out of my mind.
The subgrade, the six-level basement, contains galleries of enormous pipes; specially built motors that power the oversized air compressors; abandoned subway tracks that tunnel from nowhere to nowhere; and four blocks of debris-strewn loading docks visited steadily, like temple altars, by trucks leaving pallet after pallet of offerings.
