The 90-minute debate, which unfolded in rapid tempo, offered a spirited airing of the sharp contrasts over the administration's handling of the terrorist attack in Libya, the pace of the economic recovery at home and the role of government in addressing the nation's fiscal burdens.
Now, a year and a half after the devastating 9/11 attacks, and in the face of mounting threats from countries like North Korea, all the old arguments about research and openness are getting their most spirited airing since the end of the Cold War a dozen years ago.
Madsen and Lawrence have the same spirited, spiky air about them, part kooky, part soulful, part dangerous.
Five years after Ms. Peng's spirited rendition was aired by the state broadcaster CCTV, the shocking, early flickers of self-immolations appear to be spreading into something more like a horrifying and persistent fire.
The spirited interview, which aired on Friday, seems far from contentious.
"This is not some figure spirited out of the air".
Most notably, the consistent range of about 120 to 130 miles is delivered even when your drive is a spirited romp and the air-conditioner is run full-blast.
They stunned Cliff Lee in a sloppy 11-7 victhat that surely had people in New York giving thanks that the public-spirited barons of Cablevision and Fox managed to keep the game off the air.
(Anderson) ★ Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (Thursday) Punk-rock's seemingly ageless regent, who honed her chops with the influential young Runaways, eats a funnel cake and then disrupts the oceanside air in a spirited set with her longtime rock crew, the Blackhearts.
Hyde's most recent book, Common as Air, is a spirited defense of our "cultural commons," that vast store of ideas, inventions, and works of art that we have inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present.
As my colleague Amy Davidson pointed out earlier today, the N.R.A. is already on the air with a mean-spirited and inflammatory ad that attacks Obama personally.
