(See "Rational Exuberance").
Call it post-bubble rational exuberance.
The real message is less about electoral reform than about intellectual vitality and exuberance.
An intellectual honesty, Celtic exuberance, and sardonic humour characterized his poetry, which combined a charming natural lyricism with the mundane patterns of colloquial speech.
The outbreak of war in 1939, as in 1914, brought to an end an era of great intellectual and creative exuberance.
As German in his fervent bombast, follow-me exuberance, and intellectual navel-gazing as Wiley is American in his own, Beuys is famous - okay, infamous - for his self-mythologizing symbology.
He combines such moments of youthful exuberance with mature intellectual inquiry to create a book that belongs alongside the finest wilderness-rambling narratives, texts such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker," Thoreau's "Walking," and Edward Abbey's sandstone sorties in "Desert Solitaire".
Duke's exuberance comes from the sheer physical and intellectual pleasure of playing music, and the audience is close enough to get a contact high.
After eight years in prison on charges that an informal political discussion group he organized in 2000 was seeking to overthrow the Communist Party, the intellectual seemed dazed by his new freedom, his youthful exuberance sapped by years of detention, the occasional smile quickly subsumed by melancholy.
