sprightliness

Claire Saunders gives Myrtle Wilson, Tom’s mistress, a sprightliness and sass that styles her as a romantic second-string diva who feels trapped in her life, particularly her marriage.

His sprightliness and artistic libido are almost comically impressive in a man of his age, perhaps owing to his regimen of morning calisthenics that, he says, includes a regular series of pull-ups.

Its sprightliness in a sober time recalls Prokofiev’s “Classical” Symphony, written three decades earlier, which the Philharmonic played under van Zweden in February.

Yet Johnson’s overall sprightliness covers a ground bass of melancholy and lament.

Got the sprightliness of Yoda, the loquacity of Wookiees.