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(One brief passage irritated: a dance for six women that began with cutely perky in-and-out arm movements. The perkiness is there in that section of the music, too, but I wish Mr. Andersen hadn't drawn my attention to it).
And while Mr Blair chills out on holiday, this ludicrous character is left in charge of the country.All of which adds to the perkiness of the Tories.
After rather tetchily enduring a miserable few months in early summer when spin and sleaze dominated the headlines, the prime minister has recovered his usual perkiness.
The slump in the building trades in the past six months contrasts with an odd perkiness earlier.
Traditional sellers of baby gear, laden with too many stores and creaky technology, have all the perkiness of sleep-deprived parents.
In fact, a contradictory reticence punctuated by moments of perkiness characterises her conversation, which takes place in a tiny, serene space at the back of Union Chapel in north London, where she takes some time admiring a "particularly fat pigeon" nibbling on bird seed.
The intention is presumably to be instantly engaging, but th ere is an excess of motor-mouthed perkiness and insufficient bleak silence.
She's moderately raucous on "Lonely Avenue" and boisterous-ish on Nat King Cole's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", but she fails to replicate Marilyn Monroe's effortless perkiness on "Running Wild" (from Some Like It Hot) and cannot match Betty James's robust raunchiness on "I'm a Little Mixed Up".
Given the current lag in consumer perkiness , we've seen all manner of discounting, BOGOFs and aspirational advertising as part of a sector-wide plea for us to part with cash in the name of economic growth.
Beyond these notables, though, come lesser names, cleverly cast by McQuarrie as links in the chain of consequences that violence drags behind it: Alexia Fast, who, as a young woman caught up in conspiracy, has a heartbreaking perkiness about her, plus the wisdom to know that nothing will end well; and James Martin Kelly, who gets one majestic scene as a victim's father.
Symptoms: Infection begins in a barely noticeable way, with increased perkiness , and typically becomes more and more pronounced, as the sufferer makes everything in his or her life sound "just terrific".
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"Perkiness" functions primarily as a noun , referring to the quality of being cheerful, lively, and energetic. Ludwig's examples show it describing characteristics of people, music, and even economic trends. It quantifies the state of being perky.
Expression frequency: Very common
