Another person familiar with the deal said talks between the parties were rather vigorous until Saturday afternoon, when it became evident that WABC would stop transmitting to Cablevision.
—Marine Le Pen, a right-wing French presidential candidate "We all know that he's rather 'vigorous,' if I may say so, but that he'd let himself get caught up in something like this is simply bewildering".
The petrol-fuelled XV 2.0 is rather less engaging, especially in Lineartronic form, in which the plentiful mechanical, rotational activity somehow fails to be converted into vigorous movement.
But the conclusion he drew, as he looked back on what was, by any standards, a vigorous and committed life, was rather too grandly knowing.
I remember being rather puzzled as to why Rushdie's defenders were so vigorous in arguing for the right to offend Muslims.
At a later stage - the fruit-water being rather rich in sugars and other nutrients - microorganisms start to develop and eventually lead to a vigorous fermentation.
But the government is actually a rather vigorous defender of deregulation and labour market flexibility in Brussels.
The interviews were not sedate conversations but rather vigorous discussions with frequent debates.
Maurice Richardson, reviewing Colonel Sun for The Observer, wrote that when being judged as a thriller, the novel "is vigorous, quite exciting, rather disorderly, a bit laboured".
Page has the unfortunate habit of over-characterizing some of the voices, and he makes Knightley sound too old — imposing, certainly, but almost crusty, as if Knightley were a retiring country gentleman of sixty rather than what he is, a vigorous young man of thirty-seven.
