sprightliness's Usage Examples:

love: moderate-sized forces, judicious ornamentation, and rhythmic sprightliness, though not on "period instruments".

"epic" characterization, and "drum-tight" plotting, commending the "sprightliness" with which the novel's philosophical themes are integrated into the.

was perhaps a little too "steady and sure" there was still "plenty of sprightliness there too".

character of True Stories at the same time: I will merely remark that the sprightliness and sophistication of True History make it read like a joke at the expense.

author said that her descriptions of Palestine were "abounding more in sprightliness than spirituality.

John Evelyn the diarist, and is described by him as possessing unusual sprightliness and comeliness when 86 years old.

His sprightliness is a byword among his friends.

doubtless encourage her to adopt the stage as a profession, and her sprightliness and evident intelligence will make her path easy.

heard in his "flexible use of motif as a unifying force, in a certain sprightliness of texture, and in a forward-pushing upbeat quality of phrase".

compositions is required neither genius nor knowledge, neither industry nor sprightliness, but contempt of shame and indifference to truth are absolutely necessary.

the murder of the stepson neat enough; there is a marked decline in sprightliness later on, but half a shot is better than no dope.

pop/disco of the band's debut", with much of the album "forsaking earlier sprightliness.

there is a relaxed tone and a sprightliness which is preserved throughout the history of English delftware; the.

performance in the latter was praised in The Times as having "a great deal of sprightliness and a certain quaint oddity of manner which was very amusing.

charms in which Nature can array her, bedecked with beauty, youth, sprightliness, innocence, modesty and tenderness, breathing sweetness from her rosy.

speaks Anthony Burgess's peppery rhymed translation with unaffected sprightliness.

that sprightliness and sensibility which promises to ensure you the greatest happiness.

her, and to lavish pleasures and gifts as a reward for her beauty and sprightliness.

" The journalist Pierre About wrote that Gaul had "irresistible sprightliness [allegresse]", that he had "the air of an angel for which nothing is.

Synonyms:

esprit; elan; vigor; enthusiasm; buoyancy; animation; lively; exuberance; peppiness; life; liveliness; briskness; energy; breeziness; spirit; brio; airiness; smartness; alacrity; pep; ginger; vivification; vim; delicacy; high-spiritedness; jauntiness; vigour; pertness; ebullience; irrepressibility; invigoration; muscularity; spiritedness;

Antonyms:

tactlessness; spiritless; spirited; inactiveness; dull;