chirpiness

If we had the chirpiness of your voice in airports when they called for the last passengers to board, I would be grateful!

"He was never very aggressive, but he never had the same chirpiness and spring of life."

If she has a weakness, it is in the spoken dialogue, where she tends toward a cute chirpiness.

Some of their chirpiness had returned.

A person with Barney's hospital experience knows excessive chirpiness does not bode well for the chirpee.

And both project a sort of self-help chirpiness, which implies that they are giving the reader useful new insights into the workings of everyday life.

Young, medium bright, full of chatter and chirpiness, expecting from minute to minute the arrival of their boyfriends.

Rachel is the ultimate practitioner of such willful innocence, and much of the play's double-edged comedy comes from watching her chirpiness backfire.

Erasure, Vince Clarke's outfit post-Depeche Mode, were kings of such chirpiness.

But the Washington attitude, described by one Western diplomat as "resolute chirpiness," is unlikely to survive a departure by Mr. Fyodorov.

'The large number of calls from Merseyside involve the same problems as from elsewhere, but there is that extra chirpiness in the voice no matter what is wrong.'

Confronted by breaking news of its vulnerability, only two alternative responses seem available: irrepressible up-and-at-'em chirpiness or apocalyptic hysteria, Pollyanna or Chicken Little.

The result, called "Billboard," is a 37-minute-long drone: each hit song is reduced to its average timbre and key by an algorithm that speeds up the original work without giving it a chipmunk chirpiness.

Altogether it is a lighthearted and somewhat slick performance from an artist who, years ago, was thought to be a pessimist - not that chirpiness is a feature of any figural art from the postwar era.

Nanci Griffith, whose group reconstitutes the sound of the Band, sang about journeys, lost love and a halcyon past; the chirpiness is weathering out of her voice, though she still has a taste for saccharine messages.

In the fullness of time, Roger slept at last, but in consequence of his wakefulness, woke late and hcavy-eyed, with an incipient headache, which neither a cold shower nor Fiona's chirpiness over breakfast did much to dispel.

Ms. Brown, a tattooed former party girl and ski bum from Louisiana, is the latest young television reporter to be pegged as having the right proportions of gravitas and charm, of chops and chirpiness, to be a big-time network anchor.

Chirpiness continues into the 30's by way of Man Ray's Surrealists, including Yves Tanguy, with his prototypical punk hair style, the movie star handsome Max Ernst, a girlish-looking Salvador Dali and the photographer himself.

By alternating between a kind-of Kinks/Blur British Chas and Dave-inflected chirpiness and an American indie wig-out style of guitar thrashing, they showed a danceable rockularity that had the audience attempting an improbable moshpit.

At the start of "Conduct" (which opens Friday in Manhattan), he's trying to complete a conquest - and Mr. Tavernier gives this scene the busy chirpiness of a screwball comedy sequence until Aurenche's companion gazes out the window as Paris is being bombed.

'Chirpiness' May Erode American officials have played down Mr. Gaidar's resignation as an inevitable result of his perceived rebuff at the polls Dec. 12: even though his party won the largest number of seats in the lower house, there was a substantial vote of protest against his policies.