McCain's lively personality and knowledge of military matters made his post in the Russell Senate Office Building a popular gathering spot for senators and staff.
When we shape our class, we look for students who will continually challenge themselves and contribute to a lively exchange of knowledge and ideas in the classroom.
The book lacks the intimacy of a full-fledged biography — if you want to know who John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr really were, you'll do better elsewhere — but it compensates with an imaginative intelligence and a lively breadth of knowledge.
Nozick's always lively, engaging, audacious, and philosophically ambitious writings revealed an amazing knowledge of advanced work in many disciplines including decision theory, economics, mathematics, physics, psychology, and religion.
Possessed of a penetrating talent augmented by a knowledge of physiognomy, Stuart apparently sussed out his subjects in lively conversation as he worked.
"He was hugely popular with our listeners, who valued his lively mind, his wit and humour, his love of satire and deep knowledge of politics, which helped to turn the show into what it is today.
To promote general knowledge of "Dagen-H" (H-Day), the Swedish government sponsored lively festivals, advertising campaigns featuring scantily clad women, and a song contest for which the winner was "Håll dig till höger, Svensson" or "Keep to the right, Svensson".
3. Tarantino the Genre Filmmaker Schooled in the lively swamps of a California video store, Tarantino has always delighted people with his encyclopedic knowledge of B-movies, his delving into disreputable genres and trolling through the bottom drawers of schlock.
What Holroyd adds to the picture is an extended dual focus, as well as lively and entertaining writing — among contemporary biographers he is almost without peer as a stylist — and an unparalleled knowledge of the period.
