I remember a bunch of old men doing joyful half-leaps.
Blinking owlishly behind his spectacles, that old pussycat Nicholas Parsons explores the life of Lear, the writer and artist who forged a half-joyful, half-melancholy type of illustrated verse he dismissively called "Bosh" (and whose depictions of parrots David Attenborough considers among the most accurate of the 19th century).
"Oh," he says intensely, "it was just – it was just – it was just joyful!" Almost half a century later, Merton still seems just as intoxicated by the joy of it.
They range from the lush sensuality of two women tenderly undressing each other, to the joyful thrill of a half-dressed man and a woman rolling over and over across the stage in an intensifying embrace, to the raw, potent rutting enacted by a couple who, joined back-to-front in coitus, gallop together like a horse.
Schubert was not Irish – not even a touch of the blarney – but his music filled the first half of a joyful celebration of the contribution of Irish musicians to international musical life.
After cooking at several different places, the couple opened Carafe in 2003, a joyful, informal bistro that is half French — Mr. Sauton's wide, friendly face is as unmistakably French as a bottle of Beaujolais — and all northwestern.
Every song is bright and immediate, every lyric half fantastic and half complete, joyful nonsense.
The act was unscripted, a joyful reaction to ending a year-and-a-half title drought and becoming the third woman to surpass $2 million in career earnings.
Truly joyful, (I swear) Marie Since last October, 42 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan, nearly half in combat.
The band, whose rise over the past half-decade has been as unlikely as it has been impressive, revels in joyful chaos, audience participatation and celebration -- and they dress kinda like vintage circus bums.
You could cut the picture in half and each of them would be alone in their own little world: Lauryn was joyful but cool, while Wyclef had his eyes closed as he relaxed and played his guitar.
