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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

To attempt to tell the story of America in movies is to confront a form that, relative to our 250-year-old nation, is still in its sprightly youth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Another of his horses was named in the Guinness Book of Records for the fastest 10-metre dash while on hind legs -- a sprightly 4.19 seconds.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

Little Hamlet is a sprightly child with his father’s dark hair and Gertrude’s gray eyes.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

Crews has also utilised his linebacker physique in more visceral projects, including playing one of the sprightlier members of Sylvester Stallone’s OAP action ensemble The Expendables.

From The Guardian ● May 22, 2018

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

They appear on the labels of some of the most intrepid clothes around, and they belong to two of the sprightliest newcomers anywhere on the fashion map.

From Time Magazine Archive

While dramatic series have become drearier, commercials have developed into the sprightliest little plays on television.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Madame Daunoy, one of the sprightliest of observers, visited the court of Philip IV., she found it was considered shocking among the ladies of the best society to wash the face and hands.

From Castilian Days by John Hay