Upon the whole we think they will, the average American showing in politics that remarkable lenity which arises from perfect freedom, and the consequent absence of fear; but he is also excitable, and it is on the first direction of that excitement that everything will depend.
He is confident rather than arrogant, blunt, and an excitable talker, tumbling over words in his North Yorkshire burr.
Brown's work has none of the hyper-loveliness of the pre-Raphaelites with whom his name is so often bracketed, even though he was never a formal member of the Brotherhood, that group of seven excitable young men who made a pact in 1848 to revolutionise English art by returning it to the purity of the 14th century.
But the problem, apparently, is that "combined with their deep voices and 1940s haircuts, this rhetoric from the alpha males frames the issue in a 'practical expert versus excitable hysteric' narrative that is very hard to counteract if you are following one of them in a debate and are young and female.
Only today I have been reflecting on movie journalists' excitable habit of taking awards nominations far too personally.
Don't listen to the (loud, excitable) voices.
Certainly, Syco's follow-up One Chance – and its first foray into narrative – has slowly and inexorably lamed out since excitable critics suggested Cowell might have a "word-of-mouth hit" on his hands at the Toronto film festival.
But by introducing us to literature (fiction, but also real life accounts and diaries), we may realise that this was a war fought by children: excitable and oblivious.
Pristina's cafés are now full of excitable young men eager to take up arms to set Kosovo free.
Nicole Kidman's revealing appearance in "The Blue Room" at London's Donmar Warehouse was described by one excitable critic as "pure theatrical Viagra".
Disciples of one of Iraq's more excitable sects protest at the arrest of armed preachers who hailed the emergence of Khomeini-style rule.
