The Christmas spirit has been a widespread phenomenon for centuries, commonly described as feelings of joy and nostalgia mixed with associations to merriment, gifts, delightful smells, and copious amounts of good food.
They listened with as much attention as I'd expect from an undergraduate audience – in other words, a few kids in the back fell asleep after a night's cramming (or, possibly, drinking), while their keener colleagues down front took copious notes and asked good, difficult questions.
Due to the low infiltration capacity, rain water stagnates on the soil easily and, in dry periods, cultivation is hardly possible without copious irrigated water and good drainage.
They are interspersed with copious amounts of food - good rather than excellent - onboard, where downtime was spent relaxing rather than partying.
The Kennedy Center's Roof Terrace Restaurant was available and provided copious quantities of some fairly good food along with a spectacular view of the fireworks.
The tom yum noodle soup is a crowd pleaser, and for good reason: with copious rice noodles and meat, seafood or vegetables (I had the vegetable version), and humming with galanga and lemongrass, it is a spicy-sour powerhouse.
This fluent translation by Desmond M Clarke, who died last month, comes with a very good introduction and copious notes to help us through what might otherwise have been obscure references to various religious controversies in 18th-century France.
Federman went first, speaking from copious notes, about how fish is good for you.
Curiosity about codeine can lead to copious information, so first it's good to focus on the basics.
"As for women, I have always found that the one I was in love with smelled good, and the more copious her sweat the sweeter I found it," he wrote.
The anthropologist Karen L. Kramer suggests another reason for copious note-taking: it's a good way to distract yourself when you're all alone, "in the middle of nowhere, with no entertainment and with people who do not speak your language".
