Haunting and raw with gusts of free-spirited joy — the stellar sex romp of "Open Up," for example — Hurley's two records are at times peculiar but in the most human of ways. .
The man with the arena-sized ego managed to create scenes of spirited communal joy.
In particular, Moira Dearnley claims that the hymns contain a "high-spirited delight in the day-to-day life of children, the joy that characterizes the best the Hymns for the Amusement of Children".
Benson's spirited photographs capture the joy and beauty of urban farming's bounty.
The state of "play" is to "strip away the ordinary... (and) shift into a spirited, fun, sense of joy place where you're tapping into your own childlike, playful qualities," Sunday told me, to free up your authentic self.
"I like joy, I like things spirited and I still think fashion can change that spirit, after 35 years of doing this".
A baby's laugh tells us instantly that she is happy; similarly, we have no trouble knowing that a dog's spirited bark is a sound of joy.
The likable but muddled screen biography of the yippie activist Abbie Hoffman paints that left-wing merry prankster and inventor of the "politics of joy" as a free-spirited innocent who became a political martyr.
Hull remain second bottom, three points behind Palace, but their wonderfully spirited performance left the manager, Mike Phelan, torn between joy and sorrow.
But Mary and Bert's spirited rendition of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is still three minutes of total joy: an animated band, ridiculous (and easily mimicked) dance and of course, Dick Van Dyke's wandering accent that is as much a part of Mary Poppins as Andrews' clipped and perfect tones.
