sprightly
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The Oracle of Omaha made that remark a quarter-century ago, when he was a sprightly 71-year-old.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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
From the outside, it's just a public leisure centre on the edge of town, with sprightly pensioners staying flexible in aerobics classes and excitable kids in for swimming lessons.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
If he liked the majestic, she was the very type of majesty: then she was accomplished, sprightly.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
In all-wheel-drive form, the RDX is a bit sprightlier around corners than the GV70.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
Though Grande’s subject matter shifts after “Shut Up,” the song’s Disney-like strings carry through the rest of “Positions,” which is brighter and sprightlier than the comparatively bleary “Thank U, Next.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 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
Musically a little lighter and sprightlier than Samson & Delilah, it’s still not quite the return to the big-chorused pop of her debut, but there’s a lot to love in its squelchy, ever-shifting electro-throb.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2015
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
The whole show pokes fun at auto-mania, is one of the sprightliest in the transportation area.
From Time Magazine Archive
Result: one of the sprightliest TV hours of the fall.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the days of Alva Johnston and of Stanley Walker, the Trib's city coverage was the sprightliest in town.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was one of the brightest and sprightliest and wittiest of women.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by George Frisbie Hoar
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