The corps and Mr. Liang, who dominates the first lively movement, strike up a choreographic motif by raising one arm in diagonal.
Nothing, he said, and then the lady began an argument, and the first lively round of bickering began, a tight but somehow still loving exchange that, with the window wide open and her head against the back seat, faded off into nothing more than a pattern of clicks, wooden in nature, continuing until the engine died, and they left her asleep in the car.
A memorial to Halabja, the Kurdish city that Saddam Hussein attacked with chemical weapons, the piece sets the hoarse, gritty timbre of Mr. Kalhor's kamancheh (a Persian fiddle) within a hazily harmonized, lightly dissonant string bed — melancholy at first, lively toward the end — with an increasingly important drum part, played by James Michael Deitz.
Clever and energetic role-swapping by Jones and Karen Ardiff keep the first act lively, but the second sags as Gregg's innovations to the classic story increasingly strain credulity.
First the lively Delgado's ball from the right found Aldo De Nigris getting in behind Leonardo to head it hard and low at Cudicini.
"The History Boys" and "Borat" are the product of brilliant Oxbridge graduates — Alan Bennett, the intellectually distinguished but raffish comedian-playwright, made the first, a lively debate over the nature of education, and Sacha Baron Cohen, put-on artist supreme, turned the second into a cruelly funny exposé of American innocence and prejudice.
There is, first, a lively debate concerning putative epistemic aims, whether truth (or knowledge understood in the "weak" sense of true belief) (Goldman 1999), critical thinking or rationality and rational belief (or knowledge in the "strong" sense that includes justification) (Scheffler 1973/1989, Siegel 1988 , 1997 2005), or understanding (Elgin 1999, 1999a).
There was a whiff of the same problem in "Sin in the Second City," Ms. Abbott's lively first book, a highly atmospheric portrait of two legendary Chicago madams (the Everleigh sisters, Ada and Minna).
At first the liveliest voice to be heard is that of a droning fly, occasionally punctuated by static-distorted bursts of music from a portable radio or the kind of groaning yawn that makes you want to strangle the yawner.
Love melancholy is the subject of the lively first three sections of the third part.
In the sequence of stately phrases with which the piano introduces itself in the lively first movement, Mr. Lang played the first with clarity and grace, but then pulled back in volume dramatically, as if the phrase that followed was coming from some distant echo chamber.
