sprightliness

There was an air of sprightliness about his father's standing figure.

And he walked off slowly with none of his usual sprightliness.

More sprightliness in the name-tag might not have gone amiss.

She was speedy, with a sprightliness that belied her obvious great age.

But now I want more sprightliness and a taste that is radiant with sunniness.

The pilot shrugged; the sprightliness of the gesture seemed to convey good humor.

The discomforts of primitive traveling are described with much sprightliness and not a little humor.

Adults, however, soon begin worrying about the possible impact of that sprightliness on the human observers (not to mention their Jeep).

"And where have you hidden our two paragons of sprightliness, my lord?"'

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

He thought her smile affected, and the coy sprightliness of her manner irritated him.

He has more sprightliness than Sally and most say he is handsomer, but not so good-tempered.

There was a sense, too, of comfort with the music as well as a pristine clarity and sprightliness of movement.

You get depth but sprightliness.

"I can move," said Jurgens, "but with no sprightliness.

But John Quincy did not look well and seemed to have lost "much of his sprightliness and vivacity."

Thomas, who had been quite taken with Louisa Catherine, wrote to his mother of her "sprightliness and vivacity."

It was oddly touching to see how Camilla's natural sprightliness faltered as she approached the moment of violence in her narrative.

She sang Annchen's music with agility and sprightliness.

They added sprightliness and sparkle.

He had a glamour to him, this modern Marius, and a sprightliness that his costume of the old days had apparently concealed.

The ringmaster's whistle trilled for the next act, and the show went on with its characteristic dash and sprightliness.

Trystin offered her a smile, relieved at the diversion her sprightliness offered.

Madam de Larnage added to her natural vivacity that portion of sprightliness which should have belonged to the daughter.

Camilla is his favourite niece, her sprightliness and lively sweetness endearing her to him.