Just as important, they are generally a blast — witty, exuberant, despairing, engaged, apocalyptic.
Engaging when exuberant, with strong brass, Jonathan Holland's trumpet solo stood out, while Harris's worthy if highly disciplined contrapuntal writing seemed contrived.
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.
But it has a highly engaged citizenry, an exuberant annual Carnival and a tradition of achievement in the arts.
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".
"She has defined what it means to be an open-minded, intellectually exuberant, as well as responsible and engaged scholar". Outside of the classroom, Skokowski competes year-round on the varsity cross country and track teams.
Many of his works quoted freely from swing and bop classics; his sense of collective improvisation recalled New Orleans traditions; and his floating group concept, the Jazz Workshop, foregrounded the process of music-making along with the personalities of the musicians — above all, his own, which was exuberant, explosive, gruffly humorous, and politically engaged.
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.
Boty was passionately engaged, like Smith in this novel, with the present moment, and Autumn brings her vibrant canvases and exuberant life force back to our attention.
