With her blonde hair, chiffon scarves, ebullient manner and address book full of celebrity friends, many of them benefactors (Bob Geldof among them), Hamilton at first appears to be an incongruous mentor for men who might once have shut down Taliban bomb-making cells, survived Iraqi roadside bombs or fought the IRA.
Still, he seemed ebullient as he addressed reporters at his news conference, even playfully sparring with them as he reflected on a year he said was not his worst ever, despite the budget fight.
Mr. Santorum was only too happy on Tuesday night to engage on the subject while addressing ebullient supporters in Louisiana — which holds its primary a week from Saturday — reminding them that Mr. Romney and the outside "super PAC" supporting him substantially outspent Mr. Santorum and his supportive outside group.
Naturally, he was ebullient late Tuesday night addressing supporters at the Harlem restaurant Sylvia's.
"Trump Addresses An Ebullient CPAC Crowd," NPR reported.
Just five weeks after his inauguration, Obama addressed an ebullient Democratic congressional majority and an embattled but reinvigorated GOP minority as well as anxious viewers at home.
It was a less ebullient Hugo Chávez than usual who addressed his compatriots from Havana, where he was recovering from a second major operation to remove a cancerous growth.
In a brief speech, Mr. Paterson was ebullient.
Boy George has defied pop-music pigeonholing by directly addressing the sad fact that even ebullient eccentrics get older in a society where age is synonymous with conformity.
The president, in marked contrast from his somber address last week announcing his battle with cancer, seemed ebullient on Monday.
Perhaps this is one reason why the usually ebullient Schwarzenegger appeared unusually subdued yesterday in his final annual luncheon address to the state capital's press club.
