jaunty

Erling Haaland stood on the pitch in Dallas, a goofy grin across his face and a Viking helmet atop his head at a jaunty angle.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

An hour before the climb, I arrive at the Zimmerman Bandstand, where a troupe wearing Navy whites plays jaunty tunes.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

Indeed he was, as evident by the jaunty white beret he’d worn for the occasion, which quickly went viral on social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

The brief “Target Practice” opens the LP with a jaunty acoustic guitar figure and Mr. Picton’s somewhat reedy voice, and then adds a string section and massed voices that ratchet up the density and volume.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

The cold, jaunty faces stared back at me: jacks in black and red, the Queen of Spades with her fishy eye.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Hnath creates his own universe, and the design choices should reflect this wonderland quality to a jauntier degree.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025

Listen to the way he slips subtly from the work’s grim opening to the jauntier, waltzing second section.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2017

It may reenact a true story with gasp-inducing digital verisimilitude, but “The Walk” still seems like a fantasy — a throwback to an upbeat, jauntier age of filmmaking.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2015

The new Peter, unhaunted and largely conscience-free, is Indy plus Han Solo; and Guardians is a jauntier, far brattier Star Wars.

From Time ● Aug. 1, 2014

Even Grim's back, away ahead on the leading camel, assumed a jauntier swing.

From The Lion of Petra by Mundy, Talbot

That “Going Shopping” is the album’s jauntiest cut — with a music video that restages Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al,” no less — only sharpens the critique.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

The distinct period setting and sleek, angular design of the first “Incredibles,” with its Midcentury Modern home furnishings and retro-futuristic architecture, made it the jauntiest, most American of Pixar masterworks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2018

American insouciance melts Russian sanctimony in Arthur Freed’s 1957 production “Silk Stockings,” the jauntiest of Cold War movies.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2016

On the pitch at least, Euro 2012 has been the jauntiest of tournaments so far and we could be in for a cracker tonight too.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2012

They might live by their wits, but they knew how to wear always the jauntiest indifference of manner.

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart