Though naturally ebullient, Lotto, whose father used to say that he would become President or an astronaut, suffers from depression, and starts drinking.
It is hard to watch Dury without looking for glimpses of his father; the ebullient presence of the Blockheads' bassist in his band makes it impossible.
Mr. Wiwa, 40, said his father was an ebullient, ambitious man with a wicked sense of humor.
Born in London, the son of an English child psychiatrist father and an ebullient Polish mother, he was brought up, from the age of one, by his mother and an uncle, Jurek Krainski, and to them, he acknowledged the formative influences on his life.
David Cornwell's father, Ronnie Cornwell, was an ebullient criminal and a seductive charmer, whom David adored for decades — and finally loathed.
Brown is an entertaining writer of what could be called High Magazinese, a prose of front-loaded descriptors and punch-line squibs (from the introduction: "Large, blond, and ebullient in his well-tailored suits, my father filled a room with his commanding height and broken nose"), and, winsomely, she seems to write this way even when writing for herself.
PRUNTY--Richard Pratt, ebullientsesquipedalian, ebullient, chaetophorous, neo-luddite bibliophile --above all, beloved father, brother, and friend.
But while Talcott is brooding, suspicious and has a troubled marriage, Mr. Carter is ebullient and has a happy marriage and a father who is alive and well.
Father Dall'Oglio, 55, is a big, ebullient Italian who seems constantly in motion.
Mr. Lane, for the television cameras, was ebullient; Mr. Broderick, who is, after all, a new father, somewhat somnolent.
