What is "buoyant"

Usage examples of "buoyant".

Buoyant, Tad turned and made his way back up the access tube to A Deck where Bap and Anoshi were already waiting for him.

Neutrally Buoyant First Order Ubiquitous Climax Clade Gas-Giant Dwellers, to grant them a still more painfully precise specification - were large creatures of immense age who lived within the deliriously complex and topologically vast civilisation of great antiquity which was distributed throughout the cloud layers wrapping the enormous gas-giant planet, a habitat that was as stupendous in scale as it was changeable in aerography.

But the cobber was trying, substituting obsession for buoyant enthusiasm.

Another witness was Peter Pitseolak, a local artist who had customarily piloted 11BC ships into Dorset but on this, of all occasions, had been rebuffed by Waters, who thought he could outdo Smellie by bringing the ship in himself A few hours after the vessel went aground, the captain ordered everyone ashore in lifeboats, but the mood was still buoyant because it was a beautiful windless day and except for her ten-degree list to stern, the ship seemed unharmed.

As they approached the area where the dreadnought had gone down, bits of flotsam and buoyant wood floated up to greet them.

Adieu, thou facetious sprite, and may the graybeard Time tread lightly on thy buoyant spirits!

Captain Flume had entered his bed that night a buoyant extrovert and left it the next morning a brooding introvert, and Chief White Halfoat proudly regarded the new Captain Flume as his own creation.

Soon it became evident even to the most buoyant spirit that this disease was no casual accident but a fate inherent in the nebular nature.

It had been her fortune to know two or three in the casual, unconventional manner of villages, and there were few in the land, great or humble, who did not turn twice to look at her as she passed through the Vier Marchi, so noble was her carriage, so graceful and buoyant her walk, so lacking in self-consciousness her beauty.

The blurb mocks itself: Van knows its buoyant blitheness reflects only his own first raptures at Ardis, not his later discovery that life always mixes radiance and remorse.

In a dream-like state I envisioned the final struggles of a primordial protocell trying to properly align its pigmented spot to sunlight for the energy required to keep itself buoyant and replicate.

The weight of the Sealskin eased from my shoulders, but that was only the ordinary magic of the buoyant sea.

Nor did Etowan Elacca ignore the plants native to his own region of Zimroel, merely because they were less exotic: he grew the odd bloated bladdertrees that swayed, buoyant as balloons, on their swollen stems, and the sinister carnivorous mouthplants of the Mazadone forests, and singing ferns, cabbage trees, a couple of enormous dwikkas, half a dozen prehistoric-looking fern trees.

Intellectual light, become that very light, pure, buoyant, unburdened, raised to Godhood or, better, knowing its Godhood, all aflame then--but crushed out once more if it should take up the discarded burden.

This is the virile aesthetic and ethic of the extensor muscles -- the bold, buoyant, assertive beliefs and preferences of proud, dominant, unbroken and unterrified conquerors, hunters, and warriors -- and it has small use for the shams and whimperings of the brotherly, affection-slobbering peacemaker and cringer and sentimentalist.