vivacity
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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
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
He and his SigAlert fathered hosts of airborne Los Angeles traffic reporters, gifted with vivacity and great eyesight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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 was full of bright speech and argument; radiant with arrowy vitalities, vivacities and ingenuities.
From Life of John Sterling by Carlyle, Thomas
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
His sympathies are unlimited; and those who think him inferior to Tasso, only do so in consequence of their own want of sympathy with the vivacities that degrade him in their eyes.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Tasso, Torquato
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 Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
Karl, beaming at his companions in his old way, but rattling off French vivacities without the faintest trace of accent.
From Stories in Light and Shadow by Harte, Bret
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Stories of Ourselves
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