Put on your favorite music (making sure that it's upbeat), close your bedroom door, and dance.
The story from Pitti Uomo, the twice-yearly men's fashion fair, was more upbeat: On the closing day Friday, Raffaello Napoleoni, chief executive of Pitti Immagine and its many cultural and commercial activities, said that although there was a slight fall in Italian buyers due to the spluttering economy, international visitors were up by just over 5 percent.
Despite a few gestures towards closing on an upbeat note, this final episode of series four leaves you feeling shocked and forlorn, but caring.
The fortunes of middle-class, working Americans also appear less upbeat on closer consideration of the data.
It's a credit to the courage of mother and daughter that they remain steadfast, upbeat and close, and determined to make a difference.
With the bare minimum of movement, this quiet, compassionate piece evoked complications, compromises, failures and perseverance – a harder but more deeply felt vision than any upbeat gala-closer would have been.
Closing out a day of upbeat, yet sometimes frustrated testimony from JPMorgan executives, Mr. Dimon said that he wanted to speed the bank's capital requirements compliance.
"We're still America -- that's what's good!" Rubio hollered as the elevator doors were closing and he finished rifling his synapses for something upbeat.
She closes an upbeat set with her US breakthrough hit, Here, a moody rumination on feeling alienated at a house party, even though her self-depiction as an "antisocial pessimist" is hard to square with the eager-to-please beacon of positivity before us – an especially confusing label, considering she ends the set by jumping into the crowd, to work the room just that little bit more.
