But, since he was not a boisterous man or noted for the wit of his after dinner speeches, we are entitled to ask ourselves how funny he believed his most famous indeed his only publicised joke to be? Whilst resisting one particularly savage spell of pace and lift, he walked down the wicket for what commentators undoubtedly called 'consultations' with Dennis Compton.
With his chin, Luke gestures across the lobby toward the hotel bar, from which come boisterous conversations and the notes of a live saxophone player.
Every piece chosen explored the concept of concertato, the musical equivalent of a conversation in a lively, eclectic social setting: a boisterous pub, perhaps, as the program note suggested.
"Something both more and less," a member of Baker's cast notes, "than the daily going to work, the bawdy, boisterous awakening of the City that she liked to listen to every morning from her doorstep before joining it herself".
This comment by a reader called Vint Chavala published in The Nation, a Thai newspaper, noted: "Local businesspeople are complaining that Chinese tourists are too boisterous.
Mary Williamson, a longtime resident of Kauai, was visiting family on Oahu and noted an eerie silence on what would typically be a boisterous Saturday morning on the island — no hum of cars on the roads, few people on the streets.
The notorious Mistral blew the Audi MedCup off its Sardinian track on Saturday, but not before a boisterous finale saw Britain's Team Origin bring the curtain down on a high note and Emirates Team New Zealand, with back-to-back championship wins, confirm its place as the world's top sailing outfit.
Moreover, Tani (2005) reports that the stereotypically quiet behaviour of Asian students may only be restricted to the classroom itself, noting that students who are quiet in-class may well be boisterous in an 'English Cafe' setting where an informal student/teacher set-up is found.
Altogether more boisterous is the Bristol Beer Factory's Belgian Conspiracy (7.5%), where the hops provide tropical fruit notes while a Belgian yeast gives a spicy, banana-custard character.
