| There is a constant feeling of suppressed impatience from him, although every so often he breaks into a wheezy, rumbustious, infectious laugh. |
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| The atmosphere that prevailed was redolent of a Gainsborough studio set for a rumbustious period drama. |
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| Again, Bruckner advances his tonal phrases upwards, an Austrian trait that delights the senses with rumbustious feelings. |
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| Everybody knows that the politician has a rumbustious temperament, I think journalists know that more than most. |
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| That, in turn, leads to rumbustious popular numbers, dances and choruses, notably a riotous rumba. |
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| The rarely heard Loeffler work is a gem of beauty with a characteristically expansive opening and a rumbustious Russian dance as a Finale. |
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| Nothing in the work is more engaging than the start of the finale, where rumbustious high spirits reform into an infectious polacca. |
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| A rumbustious English beachcomber, Barker, has fetched up on its shores after half a lifetime at sea. |
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| Agathangelou admitted he had never felt so moved, on returning to the dressing room after hitting a rumbustious 42 not out. |
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| Hawick finally took the bull by the horns and, in typically rumbustious form, rumbled upfield where they won an attacking lineout right on the Melrose five-metre line. |
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| The good humour was infectious and the rumbustious crowd of students, boiler-makers, steelworkers, auto-workers and other union members stamped their approval. |
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| The capital's rumbustious mayor is probably the strongest candidate for the presidency at the moment. |
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| Opinions at Venice split deeply on Mr Kusturica's noisy, rumbustious, circus-like farce about gypsy grifters. |
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| There are rumbustious animal fights and wrestling matches, and Holi is celebrated on horseback, on elephant back, on foot, in a whirl of shifting colours. |
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| Lord Hailsham was one of the most rumbustious politicians of his age. |
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| Even the rumbustious Foreign Secretary and Deputy Leader George Brown got into the act. |
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| Passing on his experience and his know-how, even amid the rumbustious shouting of a growing family. |
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| While King Henry IV attempts to unite the warring factions making up his kingdom, his son Prince Hal prefers the rumbustious company of Sir John Falstaff. |
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| The large crowds at race courses and football matches, rumbustious but not often posing a real problem of public order, reflected a disciplined and orderly workforce. |
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| A rumbustious and at times over-wrought campaign turned out to have the most almighty twist in the tail. |
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| The familiar English Dances ranged from a slightly pedestrian opening, through a rumbustious Con Brio and a swaggeringly good conclusion. |
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| Equally enchanting but written and illustrated in a totally different style is Between the Pages, the rumbustious tale of Billy and Jack. |
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| By contrast, the rumbustious battles and plunderings of Don Quixote came as a wake-up call. |
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| The post-war consensus was ripe for destruction, and a host of new forces, from personal computers to private equity, aided her more rumbustious form of capitalism. The verdict of historyCriticism of her comes in two forms. |
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| Vltava opened with a little insecurity, but developed characterfully in the chorale-like melody and then in the rumbustious music of the folk festival. |
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| Apex caps Ramez Naam's rumbustious, idea-packed transhumanist trilogy. |
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