Preposition: of

• youth: Ah, the exuberance of youth, a delight to watch.

• color: Already noted by the BBC and a national magazine, another powerful exhibition brings us the same exuberance of color and technique.

• performance: The immense exuberance of the performances could hardly have been bettered whatever the forces engaged.

• spirit: But Mallory records that that morning there was no exuberance of spirits in the party.

• life: It's diving features sea walls, sheer drop-offs, caves and an exuberance of marine life.

• summer: After the exuberance of summer, the garden in its winter transformation is every gardener's greatest challenge.

Converse of object

• capture: No other group since the sixties has captured the exuberance and rawness of the original British beat group sound as well as the Milkshakes.

• show: The park shows the exuberance of the Amazonian forest and all its biodiversity of flora and fauna.

• have: The mixed planting style of Gertrude Jekyll ( b. 1843 ) had a cottage garden exuberance.

• love: Finally, I love the exuberance in Salman Rushdie's writing.

• exhibit: Although Caroline attracted several unfulfilled marriage proposals, she exhibited a natural exuberance and lack of inhibition that troubled her parents.

• match: Godber directs his own script with now trademark physicality and, while effective, it doesn't match the exuberance of earlier productions.

Adjective modifier

• youthful: His youthful exuberance always manages to keep the family on their toes.

• irrational: In the FTSE 100 at least, we are some way from being in a wave of irrational exuberance.

• sheer: The small audience made up for numbers by their sheer exuberance.

• natural: The tragedy of disablement seems never to have smothered her natural exuberance.

• such: Many people lead very passive lives and such exuberance actually scares them.

• linguistic: Many of these make no strict sense and stem from the same kind of linguistic exuberance that brought us cockney rhyming slang.

Noun used with modifier

• market: These pressures have been largely unnoticed due to stock market exuberance.

• siecle: Immediately to the right on entering the lobby, lies the Bistro which evokes a Parisian fin de siècle exuberance.