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

Langlois de Swarte, his tone clear but with an appealing hint of wiry bite, played with vivacity and wit.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 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

Whereas young Fritz has vivacities, a taste for music, finery, and excursions into forbidden realms distasteful and incomprehensible to Friedrich Wilhelm.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

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 Tasso, Torquato

My cousin's vivacities began to languish and the silence seemed to shape itself into a receptacle for my verdict.

From Crucial Instances by Wharton, Edith

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 Calvert, George H. (George Henry)

Without some sharpness of interest I shouldn't now have the memories; but these stick to me somehow with none of the hard glue of recovered "spirits," recovered vivacities, assurances, successes.

From A Small Boy and Others by James, Henry