In some cases – "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" springs readily to mind – there's such an excess of cosy satisfaction that it's like being suffocated in fine cashmere, and I quickly found myself yearning for the soul belter whose effortless gusto animated "Stoney End".
(They just called 'em plain-old autobiographies back then.) As the chapters whiz by, the bewhiskered and bright-eyed Mr. Countryman creates a lively portrait of a man whose friendly gusto helps you overlook the sometimes generic-feeling nature of his wild peregrinations.
July 18 , 1848Downend, England October 23, 1915 London, England William Gilbert Grace, (born July 18 , 1848 Downend, Gloucestershire, Eng. died Oct. 23, 1915, London) greatest cricketer in Victorian England, whose dominating physical presence, gusto, and inexhaustible energy made him a national figure.
Mr. Fagan has his favorite dancers, but I was drawn — here and in "Griot" — to Sade Bully, whose razor-sharp extension and silky gusto takes the awkwardness out of some of Mr. Fagan's more static poses and unwieldy transitions.
It brought a belly dancer to twirl through part of its set, and it was equally impressive with a singer upfront: Salah Rajab, whose baritone conveyed romance, elegance and gusto.
It really scuppered the aliens, who, broadly speaking, came in peace but had no way to express it, and whose diplomats were shot down with customary Earth gusto.
She has been running around San Jose with gusto, a mariachi ambassador and talent nurturer whose recent presence at a community garden in a low-income neighborhood brought to mind Princess Grace in Monaco.
In a winning combination of carnival gusto and despair, Essiedu is a Hamlet whose life is wrecked because – just as they told me at school – he cannot make up his mind.
"The Walworth Farce," mounted with gusto by the Druid Theater, of Galway, Ireland, whose "DruidSynge" was a hit at Lincoln Center last summer, begins in a comic sprint.
Tynan said that this "beautifully observed" parade ground martinet, a prole by birth, went over to the enemy whose orders he carried out with a wry and humourless gusto.
