This evening is a large celebration, often enjoyed together with drinking, dancing and festiveness for the whole town.

Despite its political overtones, the rally today had a festiveness not unlike that of a major sports event.

You can feel an exuberance in the streets, a festiveness, a sense of rediscovery.

The diner's festiveness was only the start.

Yet I love the drama and festiveness of a big, beautiful dessert decked out in the color of fall.

There's a magic to his strange and often exquisite work, and a festiveness about it that left me feeling buoyant.

Its red and yellow lights twinkled in festiveness or in warning, depending on your mood.

The comfort and festiveness of the blaze made the prospect of leaving the ledge even more melancholy.

Archbishop Tutu, who was invited to preach by Father Laban, his former seminary student, played upon the festiveness.

The mood, as shaded by these circumstances, is one of abandon, denial, desperate festiveness and mad risk-taking in the face of imminent danger.

Events If you like crowds and giant spectacles, Rio has three extraordinary events that for sheer size, exuberance and festiveness surpass those of any other city.

Alomar Is Anathema There is a palpable sizzle to the October baseball air, a festiveness that inflates the senses.

But the traditional festiveness of opening day was overshadowed by the death of Umpire John McSherry, who collapsed just seven pitches into a game in Cincinnati.

There is a forced festiveness to the scene, a payday party where men - single and married alike - dance and drink with prostitutes surrounded by murals of nudes.

Most American parades have a focused carnival festiveness, like Mardi Gras, or involve cartoon characters or boast a regimented, quasi-militaristic order.

As the number reaches its climax, the festiveness of a Nuyorican street fair is evoked by the singers' swaying bodies and the vibrant tattoo of Afro-Caribbean drums.

Bright blobs of colour, flowers placed precisely at the doorways to heaven, gave the panorama a rather false festiveness as if they stood in the middle of a newly abandoned state fair.

The festiveness of things coming out of a box could usually be counted on to cheer Mrs. Chase, but as she saw the lid taken off, a melancholy uneasiness cornered her.

The design is also intended to convey a feeling of festiveness and drama, with banners hanging from the facade and a warm glow of interior lights shining through expanses of glass.

The little valley-meadow they'd chosen for the new nexus-point cupped the sunlight and held it, and the bright colors of the elves' costumes and armor shone with ironic festiveness in the golden light.

This festiveness had partly to do with the opening and attendant financial supporters' dinner, but perhaps even more with the fact that last night's repeat concert was televised as part of the "Live From Lincoln Center" series.

But in recent years New York musical institutions have for some reason fastened on Bach's concertos as seasonal fare, evidently finding in them an all-purpose festiveness perhaps enhanced for the occasion by Bach's well-known religious devotion.

A flagpole provides a yachtlike festiveness, but it would also identify the structure if it were ever buried by a deep snowfall "I believe in architecture that touches the earth lightly and opens doors to the future," Mr. Horden said.

The Sabri brothers went on to perform, in Urdu and other languages, before many audiences, including some in Germany and in the United States, where they were praised for the festiveness and soulfulness of their music and its presentation.

Ups If you went back to work this week, how has it been going back after the xmas break/if your at home how has your week been after all the festiveness Not too bad, but it was a loooooong week.