Mae Barnes introduced the dance in the first act, but Ms. Harris's spirited third-act version also drew enthusiastic attention.
So what may seem to be a public-spirited act is creating litter and environmental damage.
Yet DeSarno believes that such a "mean-spirited" act could actually prove counter-productive.
The poet Adrienne Rich, writing in The American Poetry Review, called the book "one of the most vindictive and mean-spirited acts in the history of poetry".
At least in my world, we rejected racism, which we defined (in what I now see as a conveniently narrow way) as intentional and mean-spirited acts or attitudes -- like the laws passed by segregationist Democrats.
Stay focused on the mean-spirited acts, the rudeness and the bad behavior.
When Beckett calls someone a morpion — originally a crab louse, and thus a term of irritated scorn — we are spirited ahead to Act II of "Godot," in which Estragon flicks the word at Vladimir.
As spirited and well acted as the characters are in this Women's Project and Productions presentation at the Women's Project Theater, they are neither funny enough to be highly entertaining nor deep enough to be touching.
On October 8 at Pikes Peak Center in Colorado Springs, Dorothy was alive and well as the spirited opening act that won over plenty of new fans, judging by the long line at the merch table after a fast and furious set.
When another person projects negative energy onto you -- whether they come to you in anger, act mean-spirited or say unkind things about you -- it's time to turn to Four Agreements author don Miguel Ruiz's second agreement: Don't take things personally.
Diski was too honest and spirited a writer to make that impulse ever seem like an act of spite.
