Just as important, they are generally a blast — witty, exuberant, despairing, engaged, apocalyptic.
John Ashbery, whose own exhilarating and controversial writing has frequently looked towards the innovations and energies of French poetry, delivers one of the strongest, most exuberant and closely engaged translations of Rimbaud's work.
Celtic manager Ronnie Deila says he will continue to engage in his exuberant post-match celebrations with the fans if his team defeat Rangers in the League Cup semi-final, but maintains he doesn't want "to do anything to harm the others".
Somewhere out there there's a version of this movie that uses all the spaces in its script to engage audiences in creative and exuberant ways.
Mark Frutkin's In the Time of the Angry Queen was an exuberant mélange of eccentrics engaged in playing games from chess to blindman's buff.
Engaging when exuberant, with strong brass, Jonathan Holland's trumpet solo stood out, while Harris's worthy if highly disciplined contrapuntal writing seemed contrived.
They also effectively engage graffiti and Op Art tropes in free-wheeling paint sessions that reveal both slow, built-up paint and fast, exuberant impulses.
But it has a highly engaged citizenry, an exuberant annual Carnival and a tradition of achievement in the arts.
The brooding, private man, father of more than a dozen children, who mourned the deaths of his wife and, earlier, two sons killed in a car crash, gave way to a man who engaged in an exuberant, very public romance that led to a second marriage.
