The Virago Modern Classics list was meant to be more ebullient, a library of women's fiction with Boadicea rather than Newton waving the flag.
He is more ebullient in rehearsal, where he clearly displays his gifts as a dancer, moving with highly coordinated whipping arms and legs and soft, plush jumps, demonstrating movement with accompanying exhalations to indicate the way he wants currents of energy to surge and abate.
"She was more powerful than the prince," an ebullient waitress said on a recent night.
"Wild Sweet Love" is more typical: ebullient, overflowing with ideas and feeling, and closely responsive to an eclectic score that jumps from Mendelssohn to the Partridge Family to Queen.
But it was UKIP's anti-immigrant scaremongering that energized the Leave movement, and when Farage stepped up to the cameras for his second speech on Friday, he was much more ebullient.
Male editors are businesslike in their gratitude; female editors are more apt to be ebullient.
But while in many ways the personalities of the Yorks could not have been more different -- she was ebullient where he was glum, relaxed where he was awkward, garrulous where he was laconic -- they were surprisingly well suited.
