zingy
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Johnson keeps the tone so zingy and loose that you don’t have to know Bourdain at all to enjoy the movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Yet she's friendly and engaging, full of zingy quotes that confirm her reputation as pop's most unfiltered star.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2025
Rainbow’s parody lyrics, which appear as subtitles, nearly upstaged him with their zingy brilliance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
There was more jazz with La Fosse and Reeder’s “Ad Lib City,” a zingy ballet — the best new work of the night — set to Duke Ellington.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
From barbecue to a zingy Italian blend to something more Asian-inspired and gingery, tempeh can take it on.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2023
The songs themselves are the same rather-forgettable numbers by John Kander and Fred Ebb who did a zingier job mixing fascism with feathers in “Cabaret.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
It has zingier dialogue and less shouting; more sweet than salty.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
The results are easy to imagine: more fragrant and wonderful and, I have to say it, "zingier" zengoula.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2021
Still, John Wilson's adapted score – which borrows from Andre Previn's movie arrangements – adds a sparkle to even the most drearily expository songs: the flutes somehow sound cheekier, the brass ruder, the strings zingier.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2012
Momly threw one of her zings that sound too sweet to be a zing, which makes it zingier.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
“Polite Society” doesn’t need the slickest fight choreography or the most innovative plot devices or the zingiest lines to make its combo platter work, either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
The Times rounds up the zingiest “Cats” reviews.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2019
The premise of Larissa FastHorse’s “The Thanksgiving Play” may be the work’s zingiest asset.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2019
Julia’s reaction: Some of the zingiest zings in this show were wordless.
From Slate ● May 21, 2015
But in John Kazanjian's unfussy staging, with two intermissions, "November" wears thin and is only as diverting as its zingiest punch lines.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2011
