In those days period ensembles that sounded vigorous on disc often proved anemic in concert, and the instruments' antique technology was regularly blamed for mediocre performances.
U2 is enjoying positive reviews for "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," which sounds like one vigorous, catchy single — "Vertigo" — surrounded by a lot of well-meaning, ambient warmth.
In these moments, Ponsot sounds less like the vigorous writer she is than a bright 15-year-old trying to Express her Individuality.
Schubert's Rosamunde Quartet in A minor, a minefield of rapid fingerwork and answering phrases which have to mirror and echo, sounded lean and vigorous.
At a news conference in Texas five hours later, Mr. Bush said that his running mate had sounded "strong and vigorous," and asserted flatly that tests had shown there had been "no heart attack".
But it was Mr. Qurei, speaker of the Palestinian parliament, who sounded the most vigorous call to action, a significant turn for a man who had been among the architects of the 1993 Oslo peace agreement, which now lies in tatters.
Heavy metal is traditionally characterized by loud distorted guitars, emphatic rhythms, dense bass-and-drum sound, and vigorous vocals.
Sounds like exactly the sort of vigorous innovation, expanding consumer choice, falling prices and cut-throat competition that policymakers should want, right?
The president often sounds as if he believes in a vigorous economic populism.
With its solid brass choirs and vigorous, dramatic string writing, it sounds powerful and cohesive, not hastily cobbled together.
