favorable reception; good reputation; popularity
being very active; being very useful; playing a very active part; making a spectacular showing; great efforts; splendid work
exhilarating; thrilling; intensely pleasurable
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
dramatization (e.g. of a novel); dramatisation; adaptation; dramatization; embellishment; exaggeration
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
to adjoin each other; to sit side by side
eyes sparkling; with shining eyes; for one's eyes to gleam
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
softly; mildly; gently; politely
small build; small stature; petite; small pattern
rabbit; hare; coney; cony; lagomorph (esp. leporids)
to strengthen; to emphasize; to emphasise
in 8 or 9 cases out of ten; in all probability
unhurt; uninjured; flawless (e.g. gem); unblemished; spotless (e.g. reputation); faultless (e.g. performance)
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
opening (one's mouth) wide; saying "aah"; crying loudly; wailing; bawling
flapping; rattling (sound); noisily; commotion; kerfuffle
tattoo (esp. a traditional Japanese one); tattooing
(not) anyone; (not) a single person; no one; nobody
to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum
the problem (at issue); the point at issue; problematic issue; problem
too much; excessively; too
sharp ear; long ears; ability to remember everything one hears
with a rustling sound; rippling (of a stream, etc.); murmuring; slurping down (ochazuke); quickly and easily (e.g. write a letter); with ease
clatter; clank; rattling; capsule toy vending machine
handsome man; man's looks; good looks; manliness
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
belonging to (a group, organization, etc.); affiliation (with); being attached to; being under the control of
guiding principle; single-minded policy; one's sole talent; single spear
beyond this point; from now on; after this