zingy
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Maybe, suggests the DreamWorks Animation feature “Forgotten Island,” which also celebrates Filipino mythology, zingy girl energy and the importance of memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
He didn’t mince words or allow nuance or second thoughts to stand in the way of a zingy phrase or a colorful wisecrack.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
Without it, laddus, biryani and pulao would lose their beautiful depth — floral yet slightly zingy.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026
The show saw the drag queen document her travels to Los Angeles in order to make a music video and was complete with her classic Northern humour and zingy one-liners.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025
No, it’s not Ibsen, a dramatist rarely noted for zingy one-liners.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
The scenes are zingier if you laugh at Shelly’s artistic ambitions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 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
