pluckiness

He interacted with amp feedback to turn the guitar's usual "pluckiness" into anything from mechanical growls to uncannily vocal timbres, to other-worldly sustained flute sounds.

Combined with the warmth of ginger and the pluckiness of traditional African spices, the bitter and sweet flavors of Red Drink were a liquid love letter in remembrance of a distant homeland.

It's some trauma, it's some garden variety naivete, and a kind of pluckiness that we all can, I think, identify with.

The pluckiness on display today was already burning inside the boy who had lost everything by the end of World War II.

But even in the face of a devastated economy and an insecure future, there is a persistence, a sustained, indefatigable pluckiness.