"There had to be a perkiness to Midge," DeCarlo says.
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It also helps that every instructor injects some degree of positive perkiness.
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RadioShack, I'm pretty good at disguising sadness with perkiness, too, and I see right through you.
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Even in its bleakest moments, the dialogue is punctuated with the wholesome teasing and perkiness of a family sitcom.
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Just as Reese Witherspoon's perkiness scores a few points in Tracy's favor, so does Broderick's affability make it hard to hate Jim.
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Just as Reese Witherspoon's perkiness scores a few points in Tracy's favor, so does Broderick's affability make it hard to hate Jim.
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"Older patients come in complaining of sad lobes that have lost their youthful perkiness," she says — it's a natural part of the aging process.
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Those composers include some from Luther's time and some from our time, and instrumental chorale preludes appear in Swingle Singers-like vocalise, without the insistent perkiness.
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After years of perkiness, Namibia's economic growth rate shrank from more than 5% in 2015 to a dismal 20053% last year—and may now have stalled completely.
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The actors look good together — never more so than on the movie's poster — but her character's strenuous perkiness and his character's damp sincerity cancel each other out.
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Andriana Chuchman has a tidy soprano that truly shines in its high notes, but Valencienne, the ingénue, needs, well, not perkiness, exactly, but more acuteness and vibrancy.
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Amid the busily changing structures of "Jeu," Ms. Fairchild's dizzy perkiness was fun; you want someone to give her a really comically silly role, à la Gracie Allen.
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"She is utterly content, usually bright to a point of perkiness, sustained by the company of friends and memories and the comfort of deep faith," he wrote in 2000.
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I'm a glass-half-empty, worst-case-scenario, dwell-on-the-imperfections, existential-dread ruminating worrywart, and I envy the people I encounter who seem to effortlessly exude perkiness and fun.
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Rather, she says, with the perkiness of a morning-show host, she chirped about the loveliness of the blue skies and hummed upbeat ditties as she whipped up banana-strawberry smoothies.
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"The perkiness of its commodity sector (is) the main driver of growth this Friday... despite another display of OPEC's ineffectiveness on Thursday," Connor Campbell, financial analyst at Spreadex, said in a note.
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" The Washington Post claimed, "She twinkled and winked and piled on the perkiness..." while the New York Times' Alessandra Stanley characterized Palin as "a little sister who knows her older brother cannot hit back.
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Saggy butt For people with backsides that don't have the perkiness they did when they were younger (or before having kids), in addition to regular squats and walking lunges, Kirsch recommends something called the platypus walk.
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It's more the latter; check out the pizzicato strings used by the score composer, Patrick Kirst, to add perkiness to a comic exchange between the heroine, Elle (Joey King), and three intimidating popular girls in their school cafeteria.
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The chooser comments on even their most private parts, noting a circumcised penis or the perkiness of a pair of breasts, as they decide who to kick off based on their weird knees or genitals that don't meet their standards.
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Lord D'Ezekial; the buxom heartiness of Lady Hyacinth; the pompous grumpiness of the reigning Lord Adalbert; the tallyho perkiness of the bright-eyed beekeeper Henry (spinning forth hilarious yet never vulgar double-entendres in a mock-homoerotic duet with Monty, "Better With a Man").
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It's no surprise that Maya — as played by the very sharp Driver — is their de-facto queen bee, but it is surprising when a new mom (the always welcome Michaela Watkins) joins in and manages to intimidate her with an excess of meticulous perkiness.
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Other MacMillan pieces feel less important or interesting; the 1974 "Elite Syncopations" (performed by a mix of principals from different companies) is set to music by Scott Joplin and other ragtime composers, and its insistent perkiness and slightly hammy jokes pall, even though it is choreographically challenging and smoothly constructed.
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37 (September 2001): 51–55. Her perkiness and intrepid approach to helping Rita because it is the right thing to do is reminiscent of Nancy Drew for reviewers.Roger Ebert, "Mulholland Drive," Chicago Sun-Times, June 2001. Her entire persona at first is an apparent cliché of small-town naïveté.
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All of the main characters have issues with their life after death, but they cope with it in different ways: Mason (Callum Blue) resorts to alcohol and drugs; Daisy (Laura Harris) puts on a veneer of perkiness; and Roxy (Jasmine Guy) is physically and verbally aggressive. Rube (Mandy Patinkin) and George are more straightforward about their sadness.
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Maupin, Elizabeth (1993) "Bowen's Perkiness Won't Stop: Bubbly and Uninhibited Lorraine Bowen Even Gets the Audience Involved in Her Wackiness", Orlando Sentinel, 29 April 1993, p. E1 Themes often include food, film stars (one of her most popular songs is about Julie Christie), mobile phones, fish fingers and launderettes. Bowen is known for her catchy choruses in songs and encouraging audience participation.
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Things don't start off well for Tiffany. As well as showing hatred towards each other the supermodels are instantly put of by Tiffany's excessive perkiness. Things go from bad to worse for Tiffany when she starts hearing the voice of Ryan from her self-help tapes in her head telling her to murder the supermodels. Once Tiffany starts hearing the voices a Ninja begins to murder the supermodels.
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Nicknamed , rides the Machine Bull with Sen-chan and often is partnered up with him. She tends to be a ditz, but she has a good heart, and can often bring the team together under the most dire of circumstances with her perkiness. She spends every moment she can in a bubble bath with her three rubber ducks, whom she calls Umeyo, Umenosuke, and Umegoro. Her number is 5.
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The album received mixed reviews from critics. Hermione Hoby from The Observer gave the album two stars and quipped "Stylish, rather than substantial, it's filled with busy arrangements of standards such as 'I Got Rhythm' and 'Moon River', which, for the most part, are irritatingly light. Mannered perkiness reaches its nadir on 'Good Morning' – its fussy tempo changes, cuckoo clocks and spoken 'good morning's will have you wrenching the duvet over your head and groaning." Andy Gill from The Independent also gave the album two stars.
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Delores Herbig (Christine Willes) "as in 'her big brown eyes'" (or as George once said "as in 'her big fat ass'" and "her big strange heart"). Delores is George's boss at Happy Time. She is highly obsessive-compulsive, which manifests in her dedication to propriety, correctness, and rules, and her artificial perkiness, which she believes to be the "right" attitude and tries very hard to maintain. She disliked George, but she displays a high appreciation for "Millie", both professionally and emotionally, and even goes so far as to model George's personnel file after her after Joy requests a copy.
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The Los Angeles Times reviewer Michael Wilmington called Foreman a "New Wave Carole Lombard crossed with early Shirley MacLaine". However, Robert Blau of the Chicago Tribune wrote that Foreman "gives a breathlessly irritating portrayal of Casey". In contrast, Charles Taylor of the Boston Phoenix wrote that Foreman "is an appealing comic actress who goes at even the most inane situations with tireless enthusiasm and dimpley sex appeal" and although "she can't salvage My Chauffeur, she does give perkiness a good name." That same year, Foreman played dual roles in the offbeat dark comedy and preppy murder mystery April Fool's Day.
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Hardy's vocal delivery has been described as "disarmingly conversational". Mason felt that throughout the record, she sings "in an attractive but chilly drop-dead monotone that's far removed from the perkiness of almost every other female singer (minus Nico and Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las) of the '60s." Hazel Cills wrote in 2015: > Her lyrics would never hew this close to yé-yé traditions again: See the > "whoa-oh-oh" echoing on tracks like "Il Est Tout Pour Moi" and her cover of > Bobby Lee Trammell's "Oh Oh Chéri". The title track "Tous Les Garcons Et Les > Filles" remains an iconic vision of Hardy's aesthetic: frank music for > romantic wallflowers.
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He praised the mystery surrounding her and her independence, commenting that she seemed to be the "antithesis" of Amy Pond as she was "a girl who will wait for no-one". Radio Times reviewer Patrick Mulkern admitted that he had "found Oswin's perkiness a tad wearing", but he was "completely won over" by Coleman's Clara in "The Snowmen". Neela Debanth of The Independent felt that Clara's demise in "The Snowmen" made the episode "a bit of a tease" and set up the question of what the travelling Clara would be like. Unlike Mulkern, she favoured the Oswin version, describing her as "much more fun and flirtatious".
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Meanwhile, Stan and Francine are in for a surprise when Tungee, their sponsored child from Africa shows up on their doorstep. While not even sure if he was real, they had sent encouraging letters inviting him to someday come live with them. His enthusiastic attitude leads them to ditch Tungee at a Costgo, but once home they begin to have regrets about what they have done and rush back, reuniting with Tungee in a psychedelic sequence and promising never to leave him again. On the ride home, Tungee's perkiness immediately begins to annoy them once more and they leap out of the car, allowing it to roll down the road with Tungee still inside staring in horror from the rear window.
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" Critic Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter also praised her, saying "What infuses the entire series with sweetness and positivity is Kemper's never- flagging, completely endearing portrayal of Kimmy, who doesn't want to be a victim and doesn't want to waste another day of her life." David Weigand of the San Francisco Chronicle said "Kemper is hilarious, advancing perkiness to a comically psychotic level without having Kimmy ever lose her fundamental appeal." TV Guides Joyce Emper said "Kemper sells Kimmy's wide-eyed naiveté and cluelessness at iPhones, selfies, slang and the like with irrepressible cheerfulness, curiosity and joy." Critic Robert Ham of Paste also praised her, saying "What is... evident is how perfect a star vehicle this is for Ellie Kemper.
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Brenda Strong was the subject of mainly positive reviews for her narration and occasional performances as Mary Alice. Both the character and her role as narrator were generally well received by critics throughout the series, and for which Strong received nominations for multiple accolades. In his review of the pilot, Tom Shales of The Washington Post complimented Mary Alice character's narrations, writing: "Even though narration has become the most overused technique in prime-time television (needed, perhaps, to help move the narrative along quickly now that hour- length shows have shrunk to as little as 41 minutes plus commercials), the producers of Desperate Housewives use it well, and Strong's uncomplaining perkiness adds yet another layer of irony to the enterprise."Shales, Tom (October 3, 2004).
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Los Angeles Metropolitan News-Enterprise Editor Roger Grace describes the original flavor as "mellow yet perky" with the mellowness attributed to the aging in oak barrels, and the perkiness to the use of more ginger and sugar than "dry" ginger ales. Many people believe that the taste of Vernors has changed significantly in recent years. Grace describes the current flavor as an "emaciated version of a product that once was" and "sweetened carbonated water with ginger flavoring". Theories as to the reason for the claimed change in flavor include that the secret formula has been changed to use new products not originally available to Vernor, such as high fructose corn syrup; that it seems to have less carbonation than formerly; and that Vernors is no longer aged four years, but three in oak barrels.
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But in a sense, when they have finished the song they have already delivered the whole show...Bounce, which features the vibrant Michele Pawk as a zestful gold digger (of both Klondike and jazz-age varieties) and Jane Powell as the Mizners' mother, only rarely kicks into a higher gear than the one that gently propels the opening duet...their trajectory feels as straight and flat as a time line in a history book. The bounce in Bounce is never very high...Much of the music, while whispering of earlier, more flashily complex Sondheim scores, has a conventional surface perkiness that suggests a more old-fashioned, crowd-pleasing kind of show than is this composer's wont. But his extraordinary gift for stealthily weaving dark motifs into a brighter musical fabric is definitely in evidence, mellifluously rendered in the peerless Jonathan Tunick's orchestrations." Brantley, in his review of the 2008 production, praised Cerveris and Gemignani, but declares that, "The problem is that this musical's travelogue structure precludes its digging deep.
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