"It's been that kind of day," he said, with a nervous peppiness.
A soundtrack piped into an adjacent room conjures the anesthetized peppiness of a vintage motel lounge.
It exudes an idealistic peppiness, especially regarding its white knight of a hero, that confines it to the era whence it came.
His voice doesn't have the same peppiness in it".
But his usual peppiness was visibly muted.
Her music generally became better after this, but her earlier songs had moments, too: the jerky, awkward peppiness of Everybody, the electronic fizz of Lucky Star, the Nile Rodgers-assisted career-breaker Like a Virgin, the perennially lemonade-fresh Holiday.
Then there is the magnetic LaChanze (of "Once on This Island"), who manages to sustain Viveca's hard-smiling peppiness without turning tedious.
The one performer who makes us forget about Mr. Martin is Ms. Foster, who has hitherto been known for her exhausting peppiness in shows like "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Little Women".
As Pam's mother, Blythe Danner has an out-of-it Yankee eccentricity of her own, and most of the supporting cast members -- like Kali Rocha as the flight attendant who uses her peppiness as a weapon -- are fully invested in their roles.
Nobody on another continent has yet achieved the delicate balance of peppiness, boosterism and dementia that industrial music demands.
David C. Woolard's costumes, as Peter Marks previously observed in The Washington Post, bring to mind the color-coordinated peppiness of Gap ads.
