vivacity
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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
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
Her creations combine the playful vivacity of Alexander Calder and the woven robustness of Ruth Asawa and Janet Echelman with the optical intelligence of Bridget Riley and the ethereal delicacy of Lygia Pape.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
Susan Calvin rose to her feet with a vivacity almost girlish.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Life manifests in these neurotics in the form of vivacities merely; not as vitalities.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
He was full of bright speech and argument; radiant with arrowy vitalities, vivacities and ingenuities.
From Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle
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 Edmond About
Excellence in style demands three vivacities, and rather exacting ones, for they involve a somewhat rare mental apportionment; the vivacities of healthy and poetic feeling, of intellectual nimbleness, and of inviolable sequence.
From Essays Æsthetical by George H. (George Henry) Calvert
Karl, beaming at his companions in his old way, but rattling off French vivacities without the faintest trace of accent.
From Stories in Light and Shadow by Bret Harte
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
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