The best were energetic and exuberant, offering the sort of blithe refreshment that people used to associate with Beaujolais.
The most obvious is the financiers themselves especially the irrationally exuberant Anglo-Saxon sort, who claimed to have found a way to banish risk when in fact they had simply lost track of it.
If it is indeed riesling, it is much more like the fruity, exuberant Alsacian kind than the steely, reserved German sort.
"Lucky had a sort of exuberant, unpretentious feel to it," Ms. France said.
"Call him cocky and brash but he has the sort of exuberant talent that keeps your eyes on the screen," the New York Times said of Rooney in a 1940 review.
"Scratchband" (1996), the expansive curtain-raiser, begins with a mechanistically insistent, syncopated beat and expands into a wild, exuberant party piece, a sort of post-Minimalist bacchanalia.
What John shares with so many of Fox's characters is a sort of exuberant defensiveness, a willingness to speak the unpleasant truth, even when doing so leads you, as it does one of Fox's characters, to get a salad dumped onto your head.
Christian Petroni — the young and talented chef, and a Bronx native — spent boyhood summers on an island near Naples, and his cooking is a sort of exuberant take on tradition (Mr. Petroni is also an owner of Cooked & Company, the takeout shop in Scarsdale).
The show begins with a prologue, set to "It's Still Rock 'n' Roll to Me," in which the characters introduce themselves with the sort of exuberant, rough-edged poses common to teenagers, guys flexing their muscles and girls wriggling their hips.
He is scheduled to perform at this dance party, put on by DJ Cypha Sounds, but don't be surprised if his brief set is less memorable than the D.J.'s, who are to spin the sort of exuberant, eclectic multi-ethnic dance music that New Yorkers are lucky enough to be able to take for granted: hip-hop, reggae, reggaeton, salsa, merengue and more.
