After Jimmy Rollins — who else? — knocked in the go-ahead runs with a two-run double, many among what had been a spirited group started streaming out.
Then the ladies broke into a spirited cancan as the models streamed out in childish skirts and glittery platforms.
It was nothing of the sort: the word means to flash or sparkle, which was not at all what the stream of mean-spirited invective did.
It is an American-style parade, not a series of free-floating streams of costumed, spirited dancers and steel-pan players as in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, where this Carnival was born.
Bernard Holland offers a spirited and savvy analysis of the many distinctive streams of American music ["Coexisting and Colliding the American Way," May 31].
One of the most reliable pleasures of the Internet is "How Did This Get Made?," a podcast in which an intrepid band of comedians — Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas, June Diane Raphael, and a regular stream of special guests — take high-spirited aim at the low points of the American cinema.
"Mean Girls" zips along, propelled by Fey's steady stream of funny one-liners and Waters's spirited visual style.
If he encounters a tweet stream or a Facebook wall filled with trivial or mean-spirited comments, or simply ones having nothing to do with the solution he's seeking, the contact will go no further.
That is a lot of money for even the most public-spirited billionaire, especially now that (we are told) owners of papers can no longer expect a stream of private dinners at Number 10 or invitations to Chequers, and will have to make do with the occasional sausage roll at the bi-annual drinks for Lobby hacks, or something of that sort.
Leslie soon proves her point: at the party, he takes China aside and chats her up with a suavely overwhelming stream of compliments and cant, spiced with a lecture about feminism and a declaration of free-spirited artistic amoralism.
