more sportive
Example Sentences
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And is there a consciousness more sportive and splendid than Tom Stoppard’s?
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2018
A light, familiar grace, and mild unpretending pathos are the characteristics of his more sportive or serious writings, whether in poetry or prose.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
And here we find that the fancy is not more sportive in dreams, than are the poets in their descriptions of her nocturnal vagaries.
From Thaumaturgia by An Oxonian
In others, again, it flashes and sparkles, more sportive than tender.
From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Gabriel Setoun
Reports of experiments, as full and as prompt as the telegraphic reports of cricket in our more sportive atmosphere, will go about the world.
From A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
