This, of course, assumes that like mine, your Thanksgiving will be an exuberant extended-family gathering.
The exuberant Jewish retirees gathering for their 26th summer at a modest Catskills bungalow colony in Andrew Jacobs's documentary "Four Seasons Lodge" appear like any group of older Americans on vacation.
Another settler wrote in a diary: "This evening there was a grand Korroberry [sic, for corroboree, an exuberant, possibly spiritual, gathering] – I endeavoured to dissuade them, telling them that it was Sunday – but they said, 'black fellow no Sunday.'" Why the resistance?
If the conventions would be good for New York, so New York would be good for the delegates, lobbyists, journalists, bigwigs, oddballs and all the rest who make these quadrennial gatherings the exuberant if somewhat overblown rituals they are.
The sometimes exuberant, sometimes tearful, consistently cathartic three-day gathering was framed by rituals defining what it means to be one of those warriors.
In the grandly conceived diptych "Panethnikon" (1978), Mr. Levine — depicting a semifictionalized gathering of the United Nations Security Council — presented an exuberant portrait of the human race, whose identifiable members included Leonid Brezhnev, Idi Amin and Ibn Saud.
Spontaneous gatherings of any other kind – unruly, exuberant, open-ended, oppositional – are banned.
Elsewhere The 1975 offered a rocky warm-up to Dolly, with an exuberant, if unpolished and slightly immature, set that baffled gathering Dolly die-hards.
Joy was the basic mood of congregational gatherings and was often expressed in an exuberant jubilation.
Rose Skelton, music journalist Few other gatherings in the Khmer calendar are as exuberant as Cambodia's Bon Om Tuk (Water Festival), a 400-boat regatta on the banks of Phnom Penh's Tonle Sap river.
Not long after, I attended Richardson's spirited gatherings, where the scholarly and high-minded collided with wilder, more exuberant friends in rooms filled with Picassos, Pre-Raphaelites and Roman busts.
