vivacity

To put it plainly: Julian’s imitations lacked the vivacity that made his art unique, resulting in an uncanny dissonance between idea and result.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026

She said the 76-year old mother-of-four and grandmother-of-five was "a phenomenal person - full of vivacity and fun".

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2024

The spools frame her mask-like open mouth, decorating voids in the human skull that signaled the soul’s vivacity in pre-Columbian culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

Langlois de Swarte, his tone clear but with an appealing hint of wiry bite, played with vivacity and wit.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

There was color, light, and life in the boy’s face now, vivacity in his manner, and genuine merriment in his laugh.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

These superficial vivacities were the slighter play of a self-consciousness which in its deeper recesses was steadily gathering power, richness, and assurance.

From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

His sympathies are unlimited; and those who think him inferior to Tasso, only do so in consequence of their own want of sympathy with the vivacities that degrade him in their eyes.

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Tasso, Torquato

"Ah! friends, we are teaching each other how to die—let us not forget that," Mrs. Gannat murmured, gently, and there was a sudden hush in the exchange of vivacities.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis)

Pardon me certain vivacities of style, which I had not time to correct, and plunge boldly into the heart of the book.

From The Roman Question by About, Edmond

How much ten years did at this time, one is apt to forget; and how irregularly the slower minds of the older men would surrender themselves, sadly, or awkwardly, to the vivacities of their pupils.

From Val d'Arno by Ruskin, John