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It was a woman, her white dress flapping excitably in the wind.

The group is excitably trying to dig out a log that's too large for them to lift.

Broadly speaking, it prefers to live in the moment, to celebrate the present and peer excitably into the future: what's hot?

But John Gallagher's film rarely gives them more to do than ramble and improvise excitably.

'You are right, Angus,' he said excitably.

"Volcano" begins so excitably and hurtles so quickly into fiery pandemonium that the audience may take a while to ask the essential question: Why?

The members of the club have a tendency to speak loudly and excitably at times, but if they do, that is merely their way and means nothing.

It's been more than 25 years since the maiden voyage of the Enterprise, yet the camera still rocks excitably while the actors cower during simulated explosions.

When Ms. Prioleau writes excitably - which is often - she sounds like the cheerleader-in-chief for a generic brand of pedestal queen.

Her platinum-blond locks had been shaved in the back and on the sides, leaving a punkish mop atop her head that still looked excitably feminine.

Twenty-five kids, aged nine to twelve, chattered excitably or threw crumpled biscuit wrappers at each other before ducking down behind their seats to avoid retaliation.

In recent years a few publishers, editors and agents have become celebrities similar to, although not quite as excitably visible as, some famous writers and movie and television executives.

Tricks of the sitcom trade (like knowing how to talk on the telephone with elbows flung out excitably, whirling about and tripping on the cord) suit this light, undemanding comedy just fine.

In this role, Mr. Danson waves his cane excitably, rhapsodizes about science, addresses a bartender as "noble barkeep" and speaks as if every line ended with an exclamation point ("Life!

Janet Maslin writing in The New York Times, said early on, "Volcano begins so excitably and hurtles so quickly into fiery pandemonium" but casually noted that "in the disaster realm, it's not easy to have it all.

"Wide Blue Yonder" sometimes indulges in noxious run-on neologisms: "fattypale," "bangboom" and, most excitably, "WHUMPCRUNCH," this last describing the sound of Harvey landing a frying pan on someone's head.

The Cape people excitably promise 'a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity and a confession', but it's a racing cert that it will be Roth nagging away at his Jewishness, his Roth-ness, his menagerie of doppelgangers, turning solipsism into style.

In "The Other Side of the Story," Ms. Keyes dreams up a light-hearted, three-heroine romantic farce full of excitably overwrought plotting and snappy, girlfriendly prose: "I refused to be just another besotted girlie toppling for Anton like a brain-dead domino, it simply wasn't my style.

Mr. Teitelbaum's former City Hall colleagues - some of whom admit to a bias against him because of his tactics - also say that he routinely sought special consideration from city officials for those he considered to be supporters of the mayor, sometimes so excitably that he had to be told to calm down.