Electrifyingly

As electrifyingly eloquent as King could be in front of a crowd, as a professor he was didactic at best, plodding at worst. ❋ Rebecca Burns (2011)

A few months before the Beatles donned Sgt Pepper attire, Ron "Smoky" Townsend whose ashes are now interred in Holy Trinity's garden beat the Fab Four to it, by winning permission for clowns to turn up in full "motley and slap", producing an ecclesiastical scene more electrifyingly peculiar than any psychedelic vision. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Unlike his later "Young People's Concerts," Bernstein's seven "Omnibus" shows were made specifically for adult viewers, and they used the medium in a way that remains electrifyingly fresh to this day. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)

An electrifyingly colorful "Bust of a Woman Wearing a Hat" 1962 is estimated at £300,000-£350,000 at Christie's. ❋ Margaret Studer (2011)

Each of these three figures addresses the court, the dead man via a medium – an amazingly, electrifyingly strange conceit, carried off with absolute conviction. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One listen to these electrifyingly tight recordings, though, dispelled those notions. ❋ Chris Kompanek (2010)

This year, ethnic-music authority Steve Shapiro played an electrifyingly hot version of the 1935 pop tune "A Latin From Manhattan" and dared us to identify the band. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His embarrassing, sloppily handled, and extremely public encounters with venereal disease and marijuana took some of the bloom off the rose, but the man could play football, could play it electrifyingly well in fact and, given his myriad brushes with the law and his sometimes petulant attitude, it's not clear what he would have been doing if he couldn't. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sotheby's will feature Alexej von Jawlensky's electrifyingly colorful "Schokko with Wide-Brimmed Hat" (circa 1910), a portrait of a young woman nicknamed Schokko because of her affinity for hot chocolate when posing (£6.5 million-£8. 5 million). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Four days later President de Gaulle arrived in Bonn and, brushing aside the memory of three wars, addressed a crowd in German—a lot more fluently than Kennedy … but less electrifyingly. ❋ Daniel Schorr (2001)

From Amaryllis to Obsidian Prey, critics adore the electrifyingly passionate and suspense-charged novels of ❋ Jayne Castle (1998)