(a.) Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now, despite the challenges, Spurr appears ebullient.
(2) It was flattering, appropriate (despite inevitable "oo-er, heels at a sports event" comments in the media) and, crucially, the look was not overpowered by Obama's mustard cashmere cardigan – although she was as ebullient and as natural as we have come to expect.
(3) But the more understated David Tanner, GB Rowing performance director, and sailing's ebullient Stephen Park have been equally influential in their own sports.
(4) Toby Young called her a "petulant prima donna" in the Telegraph, while Observer critic Robert McCrum wrote that, as "an ebullient and pioneering feminist publisher from the 1970s [it's] hardly a surprise that she should find herself unresponsive to Roth's lifelong subject: the adventures of the ordinary sexual [American] man".
(5) In 1961, Freeman took over Pick of the Pops from David Jacobs, and successfully managed to relegate the musical content to second place with his ebullient presenting manner.
(6) It was a cruel irony that so ebullient and brilliant a speaker - he was the irreplaceable host of the Evening Standard Drama Awards for many years - should be deprived of his voice in the last months of his life.
(7) In 2011, director Michel Hazanavicius delighted Cannes with the grace and ebullience of his silent pastiche The Artist .
(8) After the John Birt regime, however, his ebullient leadership style involving "cut the crap" and "let's make it happen" initiatives was welcomed by staff,who had felt creativity had been repressed for far too long under the weight of bureaucracy.
(9) Merkel, the great political survivor of Europe, and Mr Ebullience, the new inductee from down under.
(10) To find ways of sharing their enthusiasm and gifts with our communities, above all in works of mercy and concern for others?” Mother of disabled child kissed by pope applauds Francis's 'love for everybody' Read more At the barricades, the ebullient crowd mingled with police, national guardsmen in fatigues, and wary agents from the secret service and FBI, in suits save for telltale holsters, badges and microphones.
(11) It is an ebullient, bustling and self-confident city, and any changes need to take these essential characteristics onboard.
(12) And Pakistan's ebullient media are having a field day.
(13) But not in a sort of ebullient way, I just feel quietly confident and settled.
(14) Sarah Sands, ebullient towards the end of a 12-hour first day as deputy editor last week, is to mastermind a daily Trends section with new columns on sex and style.
(15) As for his lordship, he is ebullient as ever and feels vindicated that he can defend “the values that led me to join the Liberal party in my teens”.
(16) And so the performance, rehearsed with the professionals and now played with them, proceeds on its mettle – boisterous and ebullient, ending in applause.
(17) While wealthy nations mull over climate projections and agonise over potential dips in GDP, the stereotypically ebullient Pacific islanders aim to bring some steely reality to Paris.
(18) Boys were rated as more attentive, hyperactive, ebullient and sociable; girls were described as more placid and talkative.
(19) A particular case attracted my attention: the Daily Mail interviewed "Rudi" , described as "an ebullient 28 years old" who lives with his family on benefits, around Nottingham.
(20) It is 11am and this is his fourth interview of the day, starting at some ungodly hour with a baptism of bosomy fire courtesy of Lorraine Kelly and followed by a stream of ebullient radio presenters.
Lavish
Definition:
(a.) Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.
(v. t.) To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.
Example Sentences:
(1) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(2) According to Hairullo, it was always Nazarov’s dream to live lavishly and easily.
(3) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(4) These late paintings were deemed too perfect, not "badly done" enough, perhaps, and unchallenging: there was in them a marked absence of painterly lavishness.
(5) What Norbert Lynton called "painterly lavishness" took over Scott's work.
(6) Obama and Cameron's display of unity on Afghanistan came during a visit in which the US president pushed the boundaries of protocol, bestowing on Cameron a lavish state dinner at the White House and issuing his most enthusiastic endorsement yet of the "rock solid" Anglo-American special relationship.
(7) Thus alternative medicine may become a disadvantage, a danger for science (lavished means) and society (misguidance of patients).
(8) It is what I do with it, rather than what I am worth, that I believe is more important.” Unlike some of his predecessors, such as Bendor, the 2nd Duke, who lavished diamonds on his lover Coco Chanel and wanted Britain to ally with Hitler, the 6th Duke gave to and supported a string of charities and other worthy causes – £500,000 to farmers hit by the 2001 foot and mouth crisis, for instance – and served diligently on the boards of many military and other charities, including Emmaus , for the homeless, for more than 40 years.
(9) Nowhere was this truer than him lavishing tens of thousands of pounds on slanted private polling rather than in helping friends and colleagues get elected."
(10) At some point in the future (the theory goes) publishers will no longer need to spend a fortune on marketing Max Hastings' next book by lavishing money on Waterstones or in print.
(11) News of the improvements came the day after Sir Michael Wilshaw lavished praise on the performance of England’s primaries, in contrast to the progress of state secondaries, which the Ofsted chief inspector described as being stalled.
(12) Indeed, lavish media approval of a scheme so fabulously harebrained as Fiennes's can't but suggest continued respect for a version of masculinity that will always reject domesticity and grandmothers in favour of all-male challenges in the Antarctic, or at the golf club, or, failing that, at the House of Commons.
(13) I lavish my kids with money, I lavish the house with it.
(14) The place was located in an old warehouse and had been lavishly decorated.
(15) Animal rights organisations have been handing out awards and lavishing praise on slaughterhouse designers and burger restaurant chains after "negotiations" for small changes that leave the systems of exploitation intact.
(16) The clean-up period – the financial and moral reckoning that can last up to a decade – is when you get to see what a bank and its culture are made of: whether they respond with remorse (rare), with distancing hubris (frequent), or with lavish payouts (always).
(17) The most visible sign of this is the arrival each day, when parliament is in session in its lavish, marble-decked halls in the new capital of Naypyidaw , of scores of officers, natty in their freshly pressed olive drab.
(18) I wanted a better life.” Dressed for the festival in a smart black skirt and a high-necked blouse adorned with a cameo necklace, she is enjoying the lavish spectacle.
(19) Speaking at the launch of BT Sport , the telecoms company's lavishly funded challenge to Sky's iron grip on Premiership football viewing, Balding said prospects for the women's game were improving.
(20) In this lavish reimagining of Los Angeles, traffic jams only happen when the narrative demands them.