The report proves false after a few larkish hours, considerably freshening the story line.

But all this talk about combinations makes it seem a larkish form of eclecticism - a Beck record, say.

"They just plain get larkish.

A Range of Age and Motives Participants' motives range from larkish recreation to grave competitiveness.

"Things happen when I'm around," Commissioner Schembri once remarked, reflecting the larkish and supremely self-confident management style that opponents say has contributed to his current problems.

The Parks Department urges fishermen to release what they catch - this is larkish recreational fishing not food pursuit - but officials note that some people pay no heed and go ahead and dine on their fish.

But Mr. Mabern is a wild, larkish element, a contemporary of Mr. Coleman's who will quote any melody that pops into his head and who plays dense chords through his improvisations.

Sify.com praised the film labelling that "Prashanth is top class", "Sneha steals some of the scenes with a larkish spontaneity and vivacity", while that director Susi Ganesan who has written the story and screenplay has done a neat job."

The push to market their horse has been made partly out of necessity and partly because of the larkish character of a bunch of regular Joes who paid $75,000 for a horse that so far has earned nearly $2 million in purses and galloped them into folk-hero status.