"What a great afternoon of fellowship," Roger McDaniel said, beginning an upbeat minisermon as the players' kin widened the human circle.
Ira Shepard, counsel to the committee of the two associations negotiating with the unions, began his upbeat assessment of the strike from the management perspective with this quotation from an editorial in The Wall Street Journal on May 2, the day after the strike began: "When the Screen Actors Guild is striking, the joke goes, you can't find a waiter".
But first a quick extract: The Arkestra make their way on stage to tinkling piano from Farid Abdul-Bari Barron, take their place next to piles of torn and dogeared sheet music, pick up their instruments and begin an upbeat Interplanetary Music.
Thousands of mourners filled the massive Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St . Louisfor the funeral, which began with upbeat music punctuated by clapping.
The music, which begins with an upbeat in fairly rapid 3/4 or 3/8 time, appears occasionally among the optional movements, or galanteries, of the suite, notably in Bach's Partita in G Major and English Suite No. 5.
The strong upbeat that begins the ostinato might be somewhat hard to hear correctly, at least for those unaccustomed to a syncopated style.
The chorus in "April Fools" begins with an "unusually upbeat attitude" and was considered by Greenwald to be the most accessible track on the album.
Mr. Bush began broadcasting an upbeat television advertisement that showed children shouting his praises for traffic light installation.
He began the week upbeat, evading hundreds of teenage girls camped outside his hotel and hitting Tel Aviv on a motor scooter while providing a running commentary on Twitter.
Last year began on an upbeat note with annual growth in the first quarter at 6 percent as strong government spending on reconstruction from the March 2011 tsunami disaster helped spur demand.
