sprightly

To attempt to tell the story of America in movies is to confront a form that, relative to our 250-year-old nation, is still in its sprightly youth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Its cast is exactly the sprightly ensemble needed to land its what-if laughs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

The legs have not looked as sprightly as they once did.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025

Teenage star Yamal underwhelmed in last week's defeat by Real Madrid after coming back from a groin issue, but looked more sprightly against Elche.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2025

It was as though we were on safari, for we encountered all manner of animals, including a battalion of sprightly baboons, which I followed for some time, admiring their military-like organization and movements.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

In all-wheel-drive form, the RDX is a bit sprightlier around corners than the GV70.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

For their second outing, the much sprightlier “The Devil May Dance,” he’s jumped ahead to the early 1960s and more glamorous locations.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2021

Though Grande’s subject matter shifts after “Shut Up,” the song’s Disney-like strings carry through the rest of “Positions,” which is brighter and sprightlier than the comparatively bleary “Thank U, Next.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2020

Crews has also utilised his linebacker physique in more visceral projects, including playing one of the sprightlier members of Sylvester Stallone’s OAP action ensemble The Expendables.

From The Guardian ● May 22, 2018

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

In the days of Alva Johnston and of Stanley Walker, the Trib's city coverage was the sprightliest in town.

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

In a disapproving review last week, Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. accused Reeves of exaggeration but nonetheless placed him "among the two or three sprightliest political writers in America."

From Time Magazine Archive

"On his own perticular well-wrought row, That he's straddled for ages— Learnt its lay and its gages— His style may seem queer, but permit him to know, The likeliest, sprightliest, manner to hoe."

From In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories by Robert Barr