zestful

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Actress Angela Lansbury who stormed the New York stage in 1966 as the zestful, eccentric star of “Mame” and solved endless murders as crime novelist in the TV series “Murder, She Wrote,” died at 96.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2022

Ami Okumura Jones and Mei Mac, both adults, play the girls with a zestful appetite for experience that never turns cloying, and Dai Tabuchi is infinitely touching as their kindly father.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 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

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

When Brink hung up, Fitzgerald had a look of zestful anticipation on his face.

From The Ambulance Made Two Trips by Leinster, Murray