The kind of ebullient confidence that Ben Bradlee displayed has, in most places, been superseded by an elaborately polite, pained respect toward anybody who takes issue with press coverage.
When it comes to leaving teams and joining new ones, Stephon Marbury has possessed the kind of ebullient optimism and uncanny vision that he never quite had on the court.
Then big bass notes began to growl, and in a matter of seconds the song transformed itself before one's ears into the kind of quirkily ebullient anthem that Björk specialized in earlier in her career: "Who is it that never lets you down?
I discovered this only recently as my 13-year-old's school papers had progressed from an ebullient, readable style to the kind of turbid prose reminiscent of the lesser academic journals.
Based on the same source material as the movie "Kind Hearts and Coronets," this ebullient show starred a hard-working Jefferson Mays playing several heirs to a British fortune, most of whom start meeting most unfortunate and unexpected ends.
(Woolfe) Classical Music David Amram (Monday) The ebullient Mr. Amram — a veteran of all kinds of music scenes, classical and otherwise — brings his inimitable show to the intimate Cornelia Street Café, playing alongside Kevin Twigg, John de Witt and his son Adam Amram.
The ebullient energy bursting from the stage is the kind of rare, genuine adventure that can change comedy and make people rethink theatre altogether.
While this opening isn't as heart-stopping as BB's Walt pointing a pistol trouser-less in the desert, it does have some intriguing elements, it's a different kind of sensation and Bob Odenkirk gives an ebullient performance.
"We were talking and smoking one night in my apartment in New York and I had this kind of vision," says Kornfeld, who, at 66, remains an ebullient character with a neat line in shameless self-mythology.
He doesn't have the ebullient enthusiasm that Roosevelt had and Reagan had, but it's a different kind of confidence".
