vivacity

To put it plainly: Julian’s imitations lacked the vivacity that made his art unique, resulting in an uncanny dissonance between idea and result.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026

She said the 76-year old mother-of-four and grandmother-of-five was "a phenomenal person - full of vivacity and fun".

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2024

The spools frame her mask-like open mouth, decorating voids in the human skull that signaled the soul’s vivacity in pre-Columbian culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

The crisp acoustic of the recently renovated hall enhanced Ligeti’s rhythmic vivacity.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

There was color, light, and life in the boy’s face now, vivacity in his manner, and genuine merriment in his laugh.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

"Ah! friends, we are teaching each other how to die—let us not forget that," Mrs. Gannat murmured, gently, and there was a sudden hush in the exchange of vivacities.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

His sympathies are unlimited; and those who think him inferior to Tasso, only do so in consequence of their own want of sympathy with the vivacities that degrade him in their eyes.

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Torquato Tasso

Excellence in style demands three vivacities, and rather exacting ones, for they involve a somewhat rare mental apportionment; the vivacities of healthy and poetic feeling, of intellectual nimbleness, and of inviolable sequence.

From Essays Æsthetical by George H. (George Henry) Calvert

He busied himself instead with a wonderful series of pictures, mostly of no great size, in which he showed an astonishing command over vivacities of technique and modulations of colour.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

He was full of bright speech and argument; radiant with arrowy vitalities, vivacities and ingenuities.

From Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle