sprightly
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Little gets disclosed about his health, even when he’s sprightly enough to play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
It was not just Bora -- police were also seen struggling to catch up with sprightly young protesters on streets.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Taking a cue from nickelodeon piano players, composer John Powell steers the mood with a vibrantly eclectic score of sprightly ragtime, violin pathos and popcorn crescendos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Ms. Lewin has written a sprightly account of writers’ rooms on both sides of the Atlantic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
She did a sprightly pirouette, a curtsy, waved her hand in a window-washer motion, and said, “Hi.”
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
In all-wheel-drive form, the RDX is a bit sprightlier around corners than the GV70.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
For their second outing, the much sprightlier “The Devil May Dance,” he’s jumped ahead to the early 1960s and more glamorous locations.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2021
“I haven’t been home in a couple of weeks,” he says, sounding sprightlier than you might expect.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 5, 2020
At fifty-two, she is sprightlier than her more serious work suggests, a quality that helps earn the trust of her subjects, whether in Africa or in coal country.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2017
Miss Whitlaw seemed to lose ten years and become sprightlier.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
And the rhythmic and harmonic quirkiness of the two Contredanses made the sprightliest movements in the Bach, Handel and Muffat works sound staid.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2011
In the days of Alva Johnston and of Stanley Walker, the Trib's city coverage was the sprightliest in town.
From Time Magazine Archive
Result: one of the sprightliest TV hours of the fall.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a disapproving review last week, Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. accused Reeves of exaggeration but nonetheless placed him "among the two or three sprightliest political writers in America."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Au revoir, dad!" she said, in her sprightliest tone.
From The Odds And Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
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