The transaction had felt flirtatious to him, and the atmosphere of the downtown, beneath its drooping festoon of useless cables, seemed festive.
Health care is a grim and gloomy subject, and that was aptly reflected in the uninviting setting: the participants sat in a square of banquet tables that made an ad hoc working group of the United NationsGeneral Assembly seem festive.
Everything and everyone seemed festive.
But on a Friday night when Peacock Alley seemed festive, the Bull and Bear seemed to have little energy.
WHENEVER I wanted to whip up a meatless meal for company, I'd fall back on the time-honored strategy of pouring in the cheese, eggs, butter and cream to make everything seem festive and satisfying.
"I've served wine and cheese at every event so things would seem festive, and I made sure the staff of the store read the author's book and was charming.
On the ground floor of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan on Friday morning, a clown blew marble-sized bubbles that floated above and among about 150 children, almost making this bastion of the old Times Square seem festive and innocent.
They certainly seemed festive on Sunday, exuding a ruddy good health as played on modern instruments, the stage bathed in a warm glow emanating from the raised orange lid of the harpsichord.
The Hillary-for-prison sign outside Mine Lifeline on Main Street was so enormous that it attracted attention, even though its message was so ordinary in Logan County, West Virginia, that the sign seemed festive rather than threatening.
While Sunday's fish migration seemed festive enough -- one man was seen lugging home a case of Budweiser along with his catch -- there was a lot of noticeable mourning going on, too, because by the end of the summer, the Fish Train will be no more, at least for a while.
