Nathan Lyon heads into his third Ashes series both buoyant at the prospect of facing seven left-handers in the England batting order and feeling suitably emboldened to label their training camp in Spain this weekend "a holiday".
Although Princeton's 13-member team, SmashCraft Heroes, was knocked out in an earlier round, Zhang, the driving force behind the new league, seems buoyant about the prospects of competitive gaming.
Hayne spent the weekend watching his native Fiji at the rugby union Sevens tournament in Sydney but after hearing Parramatta had won the NRL Auckland Nines in New Zealand, he was buoyant about their season prospects.
Before each encounter with a prospect, she feels buoyant and eager, but again and again, she's left sexually and emotionally unfulfilled, in part because the men don't much care whether she's enjoying herself.
While the number heading overseas to study has been growing quickly, the number coming back has grown even faster; lured by good job prospects in a buoyant economy.
While the proposed bailout and the newly buoyant market raise Citi's prospects, the large bank — which has been inundated with an unusual array of managerial and financial debacles in recent years — still isn't out of the woods.
To drive over the city's Aurora Bridge in the morning rush and see 14,000-foot Mount Rainier unveiled after a week of rain, its melted ice cream cone summit afloat on a raft of dawn-pink clouds, is to feel suddenly buoyant about the day's prospects.
There is the sense that the job market is so buoyant that redundancy is an unlikely prospect and second, there are the signals from the Bank of England that interest rates will remain low for another year.
During the training camp of the Pittsburgh's inaugural season with the nickname Steelers, Bell was buoyant with optimism about the team's prospect, but he became crestfallen after Rooney denigrated the squad and flippantly remarked that they looked like the "[s]ame old Steelers" (SOS).
As the economy slowly recovers and the stock market is buoyant, economists are still worried about our prospects.
