A wiry, ebullient figure with dark glasses, he smiled as Ms. Payne read his poem, called "Very Well".
But now some senior figures, including some OECD ambassadors from north European countries, wonder where the OECD is heading with this ebullient figure at the helm.
He is a witty, ebullient figure and a highly-rated coach.
Large and enthusiastic, with a Falstaffian relish about him, Robertson was an ebullient, buccaneering figure, commanding the respect not only of his immediate colleagues, but also of the Arts Council and the house god of Cambridge theatre, George Rylands.
The gaps between the stripes are much more definite than in the Black Paintings, since Mr. Stella outlined them in pencil, but a certain lack of neatness persists, especially when the stripes turn corners, contributing to ebullient play between figure and ground.
The comparison here is with Cagney — another compact figure, more ebullient, but equally fond of hopping from one genre to another.
In the month after his installation as head of New York's Roman Catholic archdiocese in 1984, Archbishop John J. O'Connor cut an ebullient, outspoken and photogenic figure, making rounds of parishes and schools.
Jack French Kemp, who died May 2 of cancer, was the most ebullient, joyful, optimistic American political figure since Hubert Humphrey.
Schwarzenegger, who did not merely visit Mars in one of his greatest movie hits but freed it, also proved to be an up-wing figure with his ebullient embrace of innovation and new technologies, global issues and political reform.
Playing the lead investigator's culture-starved wife, thrilled to have Truman Capote in her living room, Ms. Ryan made the ebullient, martini-shaking hostess both a comic figure and a delightful one.
Ng'ok has developed a confidently ebullient Expressionism of layered drawing — faces and figures teeming laterally and in depth — and of flowing brushwork, in deep-toned, plangent colors.
