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vivacity

[vi-vas-i-tee, vahy-] / vɪˈvæs ɪ ti, vaɪ- /


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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

A production of “One Man, Two Guvnors” at South Coast Repertory in 2015 failed to summon the necessary vivacity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025

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

Her creations combine the playful vivacity of Alexander Calder and the woven robustness of Ruth Asawa and Janet Echelman with the optical intelligence of Bridget Riley and the ethereal delicacy of Lygia Pape.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023

Not that Trabb’s boy was of a malignant nature, but that he had too much spare vivacity, and that it was in his constitution to want variety and excitement at anybody’s expense.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

He busied himself instead with a wonderful series of pictures, mostly of no great size, in which he showed an astonishing command over vivacities of technique and modulations of colour.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

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

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

Whereas young Fritz has vivacities, a taste for music, finery, and excursions into forbidden realms distasteful and incomprehensible to Friedrich Wilhelm.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

Pardon me certain vivacities of style, which I had not time to correct, and plunge boldly into the heart of the book.

From The Roman Question by Edmond About




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