zestful

Example Sentences

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But with Rouvali softening the orchestra into intimacy, she brought characterful wit and zestful German to “Ich wollt ein Sträusslein binden” and “Säus’le, liebe Myrte!” and Zerbinetta-esque dexterity to “Amor.”

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022

Last week, I called and listened to Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee,” then called back and heard a zestful reading of a New York Times excerpt about the Great Seattle Fire, published in 1889.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2020

He strikes through “JW tour of Portugal” and “JW tour for ‘Bloom’ with Carmen Staaf and Michael Formanek” with a zestful flourish.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2020

It follows on the awkwardly zestful Biennial of 2017, which, having been assembled, by and large, before the 2016 national election, seemed pointed toward a future that was abruptly kaput.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019

For Boone the approaching summer was no longer a period of zestful anticipation.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville