sprightly
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Sprightly and trim at 83, Kelvin described a can-do culture that produced the 747 in the 1960s, an attitude he credits to inspirational upper management led by Sutter, the chief engineer.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2023
Sprightly and small-figured, speaking with an elder’s even command at 89 years old, Esparza is one of the most revered visual folk artists in California, if not the country.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2021
Sprightly despite his 90 years, Impagliazzo is known as Rome’s “chef of the poor”.
From Reuters • Feb. 6, 2020
Sprightly Over the last five years, the designer Guillaume Henry has considerably freshened the house of Carven, and this jeune dame, now robust, has dropped her valise in SoHo.
From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2014
Sprightly, she walked back to the wide thoroughfare near the park.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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