spriteliness

And with the help of the internet, the pendulum swung way to the other side: The cutesy spriteliness that used to haunt discussions of pregnancy was overwhelmed by a hyperspecific, anxiety-inducing array of horror stories.

With his characteristic mane of white hair, his twinkling smile that never quite disguised the toughness beneath, and, until the last few years, his youthful spriteliness, Wolfgang carried the Bayreuth legacy from the Germany of Hitler – co-directing the festival after its denazified reopening in 1951 – to the Germany of Angela Merkel, also a regular visitor to Bayreuth.

They all return’d, and struck up with more Spriteliness than before.

Everything is excused by the play of images and the spriteliness of expression.

I am now passed from the spring to the autumn of my days, but I am without those comforts that should succeed the spriteliness of bloom, and support me in this melancholy season.