sprightly
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Another of his horses was named in the Guinness Book of Records for the fastest 10-metre dash while on hind legs -- a sprightly 4.19 seconds.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Its cast is exactly the sprightly ensemble needed to land its what-if laughs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
This delightful production, directed with a sprightly touch by Robert Falls, who led the Goodman for 35 years, glitters with the incisive wit that was a hallmark of Mr. Greenberg’s writing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
The sprightly 72-year-old is a familiar and much-loved figure in the neighbourhood.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025
She did a sprightly pirouette, a curtsy, waved her hand in a window-washer motion, and said, “Hi.”
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
Likewise, after 2024’s narratively dreary “Wicked,” returning director Jon M. Chu persuades us to come back to Oz for this smarter, sprightlier follow-up that’s all about the pageantry of propaganda.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
In all-wheel-drive form, the RDX is a bit sprightlier around corners than the GV70.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
At fifty-two, she is sprightlier than her more serious work suggests, a quality that helps earn the trust of her subjects, whether in Africa or in coal country.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2017
Musically a little lighter and sprightlier than Samson & Delilah, it’s still not quite the return to the big-chorused pop of her debut, but there’s a lot to love in its squelchy, ever-shifting electro-throb.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2015
Miss Whitlaw seemed to lose ten years and become sprightlier.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
And the rhythmic and harmonic quirkiness of the two Contredanses made the sprightliest movements in the Bach, Handel and Muffat works sound staid.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2011
Result: one of the sprightliest TV hours of the fall.
From Time Magazine Archive
While dramatic series have become drearier, commercials have developed into the sprightliest little plays on television.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole show pokes fun at auto-mania, is one of the sprightliest in the transportation area.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lady Tressady, following the idiosyncrasies of her disease, sprang from death to life—and life of the sprightliest kind—in the course of a few hours.
From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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