spruceness

Mr. Diamond's Quintet had a little of the open-fifth, outdoors air of Copland, and more of the spruceness of East Coast classicism.

But I do know that he gave an impression of far greater spruceness, haleness, clean-cutness, virility, call it what you will, than almost any dark-haired man you see about you, once past twenty-five.

Philip reddened, feeling his own spruceness an intolerable reproach; for of late he had begun to pay some attention to his toilet, and he had come out from England with a pretty selection of ties.

Well, as with Marriner's recordings of the later Mozart symphonies, I often felt the comfort factor was a shade high here: sonorities tend to be smooth and string-dominated, with spruceness and suavity more in evidence than drive and dynamism.