But the prospect is that, once we emerge from the present trough, exuberance will re-assert itself, encouraged by the apparent creation of wealth that it brings in its wake.
Or life, anyway, as it is presented with such exuberance in "Salvage," the concluding play in the brave and gorgeous New York production of Tom Stoppard's "Coast of Utopia" trilogy, which opened last night at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center.
The enigma of "The Eagle's Throne," this 18th-century science fiction novel about the present, is its tragic exuberance.
John Edwards is a brilliant orator who presents a hopeful, youthful exuberance that is also an interesting Bush alternative.
I went through my collection and came up with a Swing piece to dance to with Jay, which suited his new style (suits!) and exuberance, and presented Jay and Christina as two of a kind.
Diana Ross presented Bob Mackie with a Fashion Exuberance Award, the significance of which, Mr. Mackie said later, escaped even him.
Some of the exuberance and panache are present too.
2. "For fall, Bottega Veneta presents a collection poised between restraint and exuberance.
For all the diversity and exuberance that India's democracy presents to outsiders such as French, it often leaves its voters with little real choice.
In Firstborn, she derives energy from the surrounding exuberance of the sixties, and presents concrete images, if a little too obscure to understand because of their derivative nature.
