Brighton's mayor, Bob Carden, is in similarly upbeat mood, eager to promote his city as the flagship venue for gay weddings.
He was in an expansive, reflective but talkative mood, eager to discuss his career trajectory; why he says "Grown Ups" is better than "The Artist"; recent controversies in comedy (including one he started); and what could keep him from returning to the stand-up clubs anytime soon.
Such was the mood -- eager, yet unworried -- as players reported for a late-afternoon meeting on the eve of two workouts scheduled for Friday.
Graffiti splashed across the walls exhort the people of Sidi Bouzid to stand up for their rights and to fight for their freedom.The feverish excitement of January, when Mr Ben Ali fled the country after 23 years in charge, has been replaced by a mood of eager if anxious anticipation.
The soloist, Ursula Oppens, always such an engaging player, responded to the mood by being eager and lustrous, enjoying the opportunities of an unusual tuning to bring out the piano's resonances, and carrying off with complete aplomb the zoom from Brahms's D minor Piano Concerto to Chinese-style melody right at the start.
— The Rangers were in an upbeat mood at practice Wednesday, eager to start their Eastern Conference semifinal series with the Bruins on Thursday night in Boston.
Whether the Picasso stunt kick-started the proceedings or whether the mood was already one of eager expectancy is anybody's guess.
More "Tara" will follow on Showtime, but otherwise, not unsurprisingly, Ms. DeWitt said she was eager for a mood-altering experience.
Not because the film's inventiveness wanes, but because its mood changes, slowly but noticeably, from eager enthrallment to desperation.
Eager to capture the mood of the original production, however, Mr. Duffas kept to the idea of a popular diversion.
The prevalence of the so-called crisis experienced at this juncture may well be exaggerated, whether by self-pitying 20-somethings themselves, their parents, psychologists eager to label every mood swing or marketers of self-help books.
