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Bregy said staff consistently monitored the “spirited demonstrations” this week and “acted swiftly to de-escalate when expressions crossed into disruption.”

Judging from the torrent of polling divinations, spirited debate and reportage dedicated to the potential ballot choices of our sons, brothers, husbands and uncles, women’s voting trends must be stagnant or just simpler, right?

“She could be very spirited and quite bold and fierce in what she wanted to say.”

“It was a spirited debate,” he said when I commented on the barbed tone.

A spirited storyteller, he recounted how he had been terrified as he arrived for his first day and how faculty members stopped by his new office to offer their support and well wishes.