After the dull "No, you first" courtliness of New Hampshire, South Carolina brought the invigorating ugliness of "push polling," in which Bush campaign callers, posing as unbiased pollsters, did their best to trash Mr. McCain.
Behind this invigorating public push of transhumanism is a group that has historically been responsible for jettisoning movements: artists.
BEN RATLIFF CLASSICAL MUSIC By now just about everyone has noticed that the youngest generation of classical composers has been invigorating the art by pushing it toward the more experimental ("indie") corners of pop and jazz.
Through images of the edible, Hargreaves probes a variety of societal issues, setting aside stereotypes of food photography and pushing the genre in an unconventional, invigorating direction.
An invigorating encore came courtesy of the men's pole vault, pushed back into closing time by the weather but culminating just before midnight with a soaring win from Brazilian Thiago Braz Da Silva.
On these towering bluffs, an invigorating bluster buffets you from every direction, which is both refreshing after the uphill push to get here, and thrilling as you take in the panoramic views from the brink.
But Letterman was the new kid on the block, invigorating the format with his own oddball sense of humour, and lending it an abrasive edge that pushed back against Carson and Paar's audience-ingratiating gentility.
The characters in Smith's play have known each other for long enough that they know how to push each other to the limits – a barbed kind of intimacy that both actors found challenging and invigorating.
