Lissek may sound like a holdover from some 1960s revolutionary movement, but he is in fact the chief spokesman for Deutsche Telekom, the now privatized German telecommunications company that is in the vanguard of an unlikely plan to transform Bonn's culture from bureaucratic stodginess to Silicon-Valley sprightliness.
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John Preston of " The Telegraph " also noted Romola Garai as " particularly good " in the titular role, and noted that while Jim O Hanlon's direction was perhaps a little too " steady and sure " there was still " plenty of sprightliness there too ".
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"Even in the most bulldoggy " of pit bulls, she wrote, recalling the dog, " there is something _ a sprightliness in the stance, some suggestion of the possibilities of tap dancing and vaudeville, some impish gleam of the eye to suggest the terrier ."
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"' Karl M�nchinger "'( 29 May 1915 & ndash; 13 March 1990 ) was a German Bach's " oeuvre ", his greatest musical love : moderate-sized forces, judicious ornamentation, and rhythmic sprightliness, though not on " period instruments ".
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To these compositions is required neither genius nor knowledge, neither industry nor sprightliness, but contempt of shame and indifference to truth are absolutely necessary . " These essayists often saw retribution for their published words; Henry Hetherington, a prominent radical, was imprisoned for claiming the tax was a tax on knowledge, and his printing presses were ordered to be destroyed.
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English delftware pottery and its painted decoration is similar in many respects to that from Holland, but its peculiarly English quality has been commented upon : " . . . there is a relaxed tone and a sprightliness which is preserved throughout the history of English delftware; the overriding mood is provincial and naive rather than urbane and sophisticated . " Its methods and techniques were less sophisticated than those of its continental counterparts.
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The full title of the book was " Chater's Annual for ( here was the year e . g . 1878 ) containing Mirth for Midsummer, Merriment for Michaelmas, Cheerfulness for Christmas, and Laughter for Lady-Day, forming a collection of Parlour Poetry and Drawing Room Drollery, suitable for all seasons; And supplying Smiles for Summer, Amusement for Autumn, Wit for Winter, and Sprightliness for Spring.
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Lambert starred in the sequels, which lost whatever sprightliness the first one had, perhaps because that quality was embodied by Sean Connery, playing Lambert's mentor and, even more absurdly, a Spaniard with a Scottish lilt . ( The inappropriate accents are a big part of " Highlander "; Connor seems to have been singled out to be an immortal because he has the least convincing Scottish accent in the country .)
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Romer was described by a near-contemporary, the Irish writer Richard Robert Madden, as a " shrewd, lively, mystery-loving, and'a leetle conceited,'occasional authoress, prone to expatiate rather extensively on themes merely personal, and regarding her own feelings, but always redeeming slight defects of that nature by vivid delineations, and smart, interesting, and entertaining descriptions . " The same author said that her descriptions of Palestine were " abounding more in sprightliness than spirituality ."
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Fellow crime writer Anthony Berkeley Cox, writing under the " nom de plume " of Francis Iles, reviewed the novel in the 6 December 1957 issue of " The Guardian ", in which he confessed to being disappointed with the work : " I have only pity for those poor souls who cannot enjoy the sprightly stories of Agatha Christie; but though sprightliness is not the least of this remarkable writer's qualities, there is another that we look for in her, and that is detection : genuine, steady, logical detection, taking us step by step nearer to the heart of the mystery.
