21. Inflation's recent perkiness reflects a seasonal spike; the readings should head lower through the rest of the year. 22. But for the 14 cheerleaders at this Mill Valley school, a new demand has pushed the limits of their perkiness . 23. For all the exercising, there is a haunted quality in her blue eyes, and the old perkiness is gone. 24. This is the great American perkiness , the over-animation that never fails to impress ( or distress ) foreigners. 25. He says his typical client is a thirtysomething mother who wants to have her breasts restored to pre-pregnancy perkiness . 26. His style both embraces and spoofs the all-American appetites for spiritual uplift, sitcom perkiness and slimy tabloid prurience. 27. Susie, the essence of perkiness , greets freshmen with lines like " I have a message from your elf !" 28. Ms . Ryan, muting her customary perkiness , finds a core of pugnacious resilience under Bonnie's bleary-eyed dishevelment. 29. He's left the bulky, Eastern Bloc look behind and managed to bring a little perkiness to the discipline of deconstruction. 30. Maureen McCormick ( Marcia on " The Brady Bunch " ) leads us back in time with an almost unbearable perkiness .