Unlike the tense, 15-minute meeting earlier this week between President-elect George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore, today's meeting in Mr. Lieberman's Senate office had the air of nothing more serious than two old friends who ended up on opposite sides of a spirited touch-football game.
These spirited touches make her punishments more agonizing.
It's a welcome, public-spirited touch, inspired by the food allergies of Mr. Fant's 13-year-old son, Patrick, and the restaurant should make more of it: on both of our visits the staff neglected to mention it, and we had to ask.
Fina Torres's comedy has a spirited light touch, but, Elvis Mitchell wrote in The New York Times, "one wishes 'Woman' had more fun with the food-as-sex metaphors it toys with".
One wishes "Woman" had more fun with the food-as-sex metaphors it toys with, but the director Fina Torres -- whose previous "Celestial Clockwork" was also about legerdemain, appetites and a Latina heroine experiencing dislocation -- has a spirited light touch.
Former EastEnders star Samantha Womack makes an engagingly spirited and touching fist of this cock-eyed optimist's emotional journey from unexamined Little Rock bigotry to rueful self-awareness.
And, on "The Wind," he's used an occasion that might have proven ponderous or sentimental to say goodbye to his audience in a way that is at once dignified, high-spirited and touching.
According to at least one game developer Touch Arcade spoke with, their game was removed because it contained "images of the Confederate flag used in offensive and mean-spirited ways".
I came across this, among a dozen mentions of Bennett, in one of Sir Alec Guinness's published diaries, "My Name Escapes Me": "As often, when feeling anxious and low-spirited, I got in touch with Alan B and asked him to spend the evening with me.
Cinderella-star Lily James is well cast as the spirited Elizabeth, Sam Riley brings a touch of dourness to the role of Mr Darcy, Sally Phillips raises a giggle as Mrs Bennet, and Matt Smith is gamely gormless ("Oh, fuddle") as Parson Collins.
