Despite all the spirited talk of the jihad, Mohamoud Hassan, the engineering student, seemed to waver, friends recalled.
The appearance of a rabble-rouser like Wyly, with his spirited talk of shareholder rights and the virtues of managerial accountability, was inevitable.
At the New Year's Festival, more than 220 people from the New York metropolitan region and as far away as Washington State surrendered to five days of good food, spirited talk and four movies a day.
Recently, the soul-searching and spirited talk about the long-term health and sustainability of the IPO market has included much discussion of the benefits brought by the JOBS Act, which the Securities and Exchange Commission rolled out two years ago to encourage emerging growth companies to file for IPOs.
He had a spirited talk about women with John F. Kennedy while giving the future president a massage.
And finally, maverick creator-entrepreneur Steven Grasse (Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction) closed out the day's discussions with a spirited talk about his journey from disgruntled ad man to revolutionary businessman.
As we drove along, there was a lot of banter and laughter and high-spirited talk among my companions of going out on the town and having themselves a ball tonight.
Any candidate who isn't man enough (and, sadly, it's just men in this race) to stand up to a mean-spirited talk show host who claims to be the standard bearer of their political party is too much of a coward to make it to the White House.
There was some spirited Rioja talk that night, among a handful of financiers, about Spain needing to start from scratch, and about how hard it was to fire people, and therefore to adapt to economic straits.
It was Wolf Blitzkrieg: even the more spirited CNN talk show hosts like Piers Morgan and Eliot Spitzer scrapped their planned shows (Kathleen Parker called in sick) and stayed on the news in Egypt, and viewers stayed with CNN.
