vivacity

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

The spools frame her mask-like open mouth, decorating voids in the human skull that signaled the soul’s vivacity in pre-Columbian culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 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

There was color, light, and life in the boy’s face now, vivacity in his manner, and genuine merriment in his laugh.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Bearing this in mind, the reader will perhaps excuse certain small vivacities, sallies that meet fools with their folly, masking the main attack.

From On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

How much ten years did at this time, one is apt to forget; and how irregularly the slower minds of the older men would surrender themselves, sadly, or awkwardly, to the vivacities of their pupils.

From Val d'Arno by John Ruskin

Either I am very much mistaken or the Parisian of yesterday will soon weary of the antiquated surroundings, and ere long regret the vivacities of her poet.

From Artists' Wives by Laura Ensor

Life manifests in these neurotics in the form of vivacities merely; not as vitalities.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

These superficial vivacities were the slighter play of a self-consciousness which in its deeper recesses was steadily gathering power, richness, and assurance.

From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford