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

A production of “One Man, Two Guvnors” at South Coast Repertory in 2015 failed to summon the necessary vivacity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025

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

Her creations combine the playful vivacity of Alexander Calder and the woven robustness of Ruth Asawa and Janet Echelman with the optical intelligence of Bridget Riley and the ethereal delicacy of Lygia Pape.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023

Dreaminess and vivacity, what a wonderful combination of qualities!

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

It is imagined that the gay disposition of the young gentleman was not very suitable to the old man's temper, which was, perhaps, too grave and austere to relish the vivacities of his nephew.

From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

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

Those vivacities of young Fritz, his taste for music, finery, those furtive excursions into the domain of Latin and forbidden things, were distasteful and incomprehensible to Friedrich Wilhelm: Where can such things end?

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 by Carlyle, Thomas

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)

M. Cacaut says that he used this expression, "After the scenes of Tolentino and of Leghorn, and the fright of Manfredini, and Mat�i threatened, and so many other vivacities."

From The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Durand, John