spruceness

The twinklingly collegial mood of Ms. Monk’s vocal trios were a tonic after this, and so was the spruceness of their rhythm.

The pleasure of his “Horseplay” comes principally from the spruceness of his rhythm and the way he makes each phrase feel brim full.

The spruceness had left him; all the color, too, had gone from his face, which was now sickly white—an evil face with its sandy mustache streaked with gray and its lusterless green eyes.

At least he learned the drill and the regulations and how to keep out of the guardhouse—except just after pay day; and his lank figure took on a certain military spruceness.

Even her new spruceness was a comparatively recent manifestation.