high-spirited
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Either way, the high-spirited jams are a throwback to a time when you still felt like clapping your hands, and maybe even saying “yeah. “
From Salon • Jun. 28, 2025
Lives lived: Seiji Ozawa, a high-spirited Japanese conductor who directed the Boston Symphony Orchestra for decades, died at 88.
From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2024
The event was scriptless, to honor a compromise with striking writers, but chock full of high-spirited Broadway performances drawing raucous cheers from an audience clearly thrilled to be there at all.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 12, 2023
What might appear violent and aggressive is actually a friendly, high-spirited celebration of music and collective enjoyment.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2023
He sprang up, a smallish man, high-spirited and ebullient.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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