(1) Ishaq Siddiqi, market strategist at ETX Capital , summed up the markets: Equities looking perky, US dollar gaining lost ground versus other currencies, gold reversing previous session gains... and bonds falling out of favour on risk-on mood currently sweeping price-action.
(2) Mental visual imagery interferes with vision: the Perky (1910) effect.
(3) When I asked a Swedish friend what the tent, pastel kitchen units, and perky crockery displays in All of Sweden is Baking brought to mind, she replied, immediately: “Ikea and summer weekend cabins.” Phillips has not even lost hope of selling the format to China, which has no tradition of covered ovens, let alone baking – despite the fact that one broadcaster has turned her down on the grounds that Chinese audiences won’t watch a television programme “that makes you fat”.
(4) One Wild Moment was previously remade by Hollywood in 1984 as Blame it on Rio, with Michael Caine as the older man who embarks on an affair with Michelle Johnson's perky teenager in a version that also provided an early role for Demi Moore.
(5) Fleet Street Fox, media blogger, aka Susie Boniface Jane Austen is a perfectly good writer, and I enjoy reading about perky young girls and smouldering, tightly breeched heroes as much as anyone.
(6) On interest rates, the Bank of England still has the pedal to the metal, and George Osborne has made sure the housing market is perky verging on pesky .
(7) In a recent Grantland podcast , the head of the US network Comedy Central suggested that the success of perky shows such as Parks And Recreation was due to Generation Y's more optimistic outlook on life.
(8) His chatter on- and off-air has a smooth, perky tone perfect for linking Zack FM favourites such as REO Speedwagon and Madonna.
(9) Entertainment Weekly, which has had the inside line on Abrams’ film, has posted an intriguing look at the perky orange-and-white ball droid, which we believe begins the movie as an aide to X-Wing pilot Poe Dameron, but has been seen in the company of Daisy Ridley’s Rey, and even on board the Millennium Falcon, in trailers and TV spots.
(10) Skylarks are smallish, brown birds with a perky crest and streaky plumage.
(11) Before that, his teenage band the Jades had released two entirely unexceptional doo-wop tracks in 1958 and two years later he had chanced his arm as a solo singer, recording in the perky, post-rock'n'roll style that predominated in pre-Beatles America.
(12) It's a bit late now for Sir Mervyn to talk of taking away the punch bowl, just as perky ministers boast of green shoots, turning corners and Danny Alexander's "increasing momentum" .
(13) There's perky, honeyed jazz from the live band when guests step on stage and plenty of warm laughter from the live audience, which sits rather awkwardly on radio: it's not always clear what the laughs are about, and it's odd to hear the midday news, for example, signed off with unexplained guffaws.
(14) This interference was interpreted as showing the assimilation of the signal tone into imagery, i.e., the effect described by Perky in 1910, occurred in the auditory modality.
(15) While the perky Jack Russell was banned from the Oscar nominations owing to an academy rule, he did take the coveted Palm Dog gong at Cannes in May 2011 and triumphed in the inaugural Golden Collar awards in LA in February.
(16) Here is Alfred Drury's perky 1930s statue of Sir Joshua, palette in hand and manner breezily conversational.
(17) Then I looked at the lyrics, and what strikes you is the crazy dichotomy of the very perky music, and these incredibly revolutionary lyrics.
(18) And the truth is, most of them were never in a recording studio again (2007) ON STEPHEN GATELY BEING GAY I had no idea… on my mother's life (2008) ON USING A "BANG" (BAND AUTOMATIC NAME GENERATOR) Some of the suggestions I got were Perky Gravy, Silk Radius, Witless and Curly Spam (2007) ON THE BEST THING ABOUT THE X FACTOR It's real, everything is real, nothing is staged (2007) ON GIRL BANDS There's a common perception that behind the scenes it's all catfights and screaming rows.
(19) These are riddled with misogyny (the cook on the Good Ship Venus serves up a stew of female gynaecological waste products) and other bigotries, including the perky verse in Four and Twenty Virgins when the “village cripple” who “wasn’t up to much” is laid on his back so that he can be “fucked with his crutch”.
(20) Grazia Daily , for example, recently ran a whole article about how Kardashian dresses her "designer booty", cooing over how her "perky posterior ... wiggles with abandon in a suede pencil skirt", as though the journalist were a thigh-rubbing Benny Hill fan as opposed to a writer for a magazine ostensibly aimed at women.
Vivacious
Definition:
(a.) Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived.
(a.) Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet.
(a.) Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial.
Example Sentences:
(1) In court on Wednesday, Masipa described Steenkamp as “young, vivacious, full of life and hopes for the future”.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jo Cox: ‘We’ve lost a great star’ – video obituary “Jo Cox was the most vivacious, personable, dynamic and committed friend you could ever have,” he said.
(3) In the 2nd week, however, a vivacious bone remodelling with wide Haversian canals and vessels starts from the medial cortex as could be seen identically in every series of our experiments.
(4) Reviewing, the Guardian’s Andrew Clements admired the work’s vivid and vivacious writing.
(5) Most foreigners were struck by the affluence, vivacious commerce and great manufacturing capacity of the Georgians.
(6) Judy was under five feet tall, a sprightly figure, vivacious and pretty rather than beautiful, her pale skin accentuated by the bright red of her lips in the old three-strip Technicolor.
(7) Fibroblasts which vivaciously produced collagenous material invaded the xenografts and built up solid strands of connective tissue which tightly contacted surviving tumor cells.
(8) Her mother, Sally, described the four-week trial as an "awful experience" in which her "happy vivacious, fun-loving girl" had been defamed.
(9) The second group of dogs never became normoglycemic but remained vivacious; insulin level in their splenic vein increased moderately only after glucose injection.
(10) "When you hit it right on guitars in pop, it can be vivacious and exuberant and shiny.
(11) Produced by Sikandar Khan, Anjunaa Beach, which portrays Keeling as a vivacious teenager who rode elephants, hung out at beach shacks and occasionally took drugs, is already the subject of controversy.
(12) She described Steenkamp as “young, vivacious, full of life and hopes for the future”.
(13) The EMG findings were characterized by vivacious spontaneous activity and the high rate of different EMG pattern in one patient.
(14) "Her books are very popular and she's so vivacious," Donaldson said.
(15) Priya was the vivacious one, a bright five- year-old who loved music and wanted to be a teacher.
(16) Be playful and vivacious, but lose the teenage fantasy that you don't depend on anyone and they don't depend on you."
(17) Friends described her as vivacious, upbeat and larger than life.
(18) The bunny "has a sexual meaning", he said, "because it's a fresh animal, shy, vivacious, jumping – sexy.
(19) Gone are the dark days when Catwoman and the Shadow prowled the murky recesses of the Blockbuster Video bargain bucket: instead, comic book fans have been treated to a series of vivacious and well-planned Marvel Studios films culminating in last year's $1.5bn The Avengers .
(20) They waited nine years for justice for their "happy and vivacious" daughter Milly.