daintier
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Hnath creates his own universe, and the design choices should reflect this wonderland quality to a jauntier degree.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025
Two portraits of composer Arnold Schoenberg depict him seated in a chair, but one is formal and mostly in shades of gray while the other is looser, jauntier and heavy on reds and pinks.
From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2019
The new Peter, unhaunted and largely conscience-free, is Indy plus Han Solo; and Guardians is a jauntier, far brattier Star Wars.
From Time • Aug. 1, 2014
The Austrian baritone Florian Boesch and the pianist Roger Vignoles offer a gnarlier, angrier “Edward” and a jauntier “Wandelnde Glocke” on “Loewe: Songs and Ballads,” another Hyperion disc.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2012
Cromwell, in more sober garments, had an even jauntier attitude than the King, for he sat astride the chair, with his chin resting on the back of it, smoking a cigarette in a meerschaum holder.
From Revenge! by Barr, Robert