Researchers responsible for winner selection would listen to telephone messages left by entrants to identify those "who sounded lively" and would be entertaining participants.
Organ aficionados may wince, but to non-specialist ears the instrument sounds lively and flexible, from delicate to all-out beefy, much like its communicative player.
From the poolside-pitch perspective, her new series sounds lively enough: it's "Mystic River" plus "The Fighter," set in a noirish modern Los Angeles, then spiced with an Elmore Leonard-esque assortment of colorful losers.
As a game mechanic, this sounds lively, although it is a pity it doesn't account for the effect of a hike in Marmite prices on your enthusiast star striker.
Still, it sounded lively enough.
Even the ball off his strings sounded livelier on this sun-kissed Melbourne afternoon.
One customer, James Rosenthal, said the soundstage was wider, but less deep than that of the CD player, but he also thought the instruments sounded livelier.
The stadium wasn't close to being full, yet the sound was lively, approaching loud.
THE PLAYLIST On weekends, the sound is lively funk and old-school hip-hop.
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