On the other hand, there are high spots: the staging of the "Lonely Town" pas de deux, the spirited night-club scenes.
In the process, they have exported some of the high-spirited night life of their younger years in Manhattan to the skateboard-filled driveways and deer-tracked byways of suburbia.
Their energetic and fresh sound set the tone for a high-spirited night that also featured beloved Shanghai-based alternative rock band, Duck Fight Goose, whose performance shook the concert hall with trembling guitar riffs and abstract keyboard melodies.
Were she not making slick, spirited Friday-night pop like this, she'd be at a Vodka Revs necking Mai Tai shooters and showing strangers she's got your name tattooed on her arse.
"Gone Girl" is apt to inspire a slew of spirited date-night debates, as the surprisingly subversive popcorn movie, adapted by Gillian Flynn from her bestselling novel of the same name, slides down a razor's edge of sexual politics.
There were tender renditions of "Penny Lover" and "Say You, Say Me" for couples looking to slow dance; there was also a spirited take on "All Night Long (All Night)" for audience members who wanted to move faster.
Gospel singers and groups found themselves embraced by the free-spirited culture of night clubs.
I no longer know the d.j.s in most places, and New York now lacks the spirited and cohesive night-club scene of our youth, but the d.j. is still the cynosure where clubs do exist.
I still go out to certain clubs, but less to hear the music...than to search out d.j.s who possess the authority that Miss V. and I used to look for... New York now lacks the spirited and cohesive night-club scene of our youth, but the d.j. is still the cynosure where clubs do exist.
Temporarily invading District 28, the event housed a plentitude of spirited day-into-night performances from both local and international techno gurus.
Peppered through the night is spirited conversation about the issues of the week, personal and political.
