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Taking a cue from nickelodeon piano players, composer John Powell steers the mood with a vibrantly eclectic score of sprightly ragtime, violin pathos and popcorn crescendos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

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

The music is danceable, the editing is sprightly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

She is a sprightly, spidery woman, with a narrow nose and piercing hazel eyes as bright and sharp as a bird’s.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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

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

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

It is a fair sample of the unvarnished style and the deadpan humor that mark the weekly Lancet as the sprightliest and most outspoken voice in medical journalism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mary is Debbie Reynolds, giving one of her sprightliest performances as the wickedly witty, nearly divorced wife of Publisher Barry Nelson, who repeats his stage role in sharp, swinging style.

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

She took the ring—she slipp'd it on—and said, in sprightliest tone, "I'll have thee and thy golden ring, and be thy faithful one."

From An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics by Various