sprightliness

IPA: sprˈaɪtɫinʌs

Examples of "sprightliness" in Sentences

I suddenly feel a new sprightliness, quite unexpec ...
She was not without a certain kind of sprightliness that passed for intelligence; and she could by her adroitness of manoeuvre
This little sally may be considered as a specimen of that playful sprightliness which is so much the characteristic of the french female.
But he was very tentative, fastidiously so, letting Ruth set the pace of sprightliness and fancy, keeping up with her but never daring to go beyond her.
Many of her letters have been preserved, and show a sprightliness which is well borne out by her portrait, that of a charming old lady in a turban, with bright eyes and a humorous mouth.
But nature has liberally supplied them with a fund of wit and sprightliness, which is certainly no small inducement to those, who have only transient glimpses of their charms, to wish very earnestly for a removal of those impediments, that obstruct their more frequent presence.
An omnivorous troubadour, he roves from Manchester libraries to Colombian villages to salvage musical traditions – with recordings that move from Berber beats to the raptures of a raga, from the thrilling stillness of an Armenian lament to the sprightliness of an Elizabethan galliard.