sprightliest

The sprightliest is The Banjo, no longer a paean to the instrument as in the Broadway version but now a "dance sensation" - a concept that sets the number up much better and gives the talented, hardworking dance ensemble its best chance to ignite the show. which in stage form remains a second-tier work.

chron.com Chronicle 2009

On her debut album, "Sparks Fly," she was aided by the likes of Kesha, Avril Lavigne and pop svengali Dr. Luke, but on Sunday she was on her own: She sang one of the evening's sprightliest numbers, "Last Christmas" by George Michael's first band, the '80s duo Wham!

'Christmas in Washington,' warm and fuzzy David Malitz 2010

On her debut album, "Sparks Fly," she was aided by the likes of Kesha, Avril Lavigne and pop svengali Dr. Luke, but on Sunday she was on her own: She sang one of the evening's sprightliest numbers, "Last Christmas" by George Michael's first band, the '80s duo Wham!

In concert: Mariah Carey, Annie Lennox, Maxwell and more, "Christmas in Washington" at the National Building Museum David Malitz 2010

The travel and time schedules of a presidential campaign are brutally taxing even for the sprightliest of contenders.

UPDATED: McCain makes a major mistake about a very basic Iraq issue -- two days in a row 2008

The travel and time schedules of a presidential campaign are brutally taxing even for the sprightliest of contenders.

UPDATED: McCain makes a major mistake about a very basic Iraq issue -- two days in a row 2008

Great Pavilionstone Hotel, the sprightliest porters under the sun, whose cheerful looks are a pleasant welcome, shoulder your luggage, drive it off in vans, bowl it away in trucks, and enjoy themselves in playing athletic games with it.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

But far worse was the complete lack of wheelchair access to the river - indeed, only the hardiest and sprightliest rambler would have had any hope of getting near it.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007

But far worse was the complete lack of wheelchair access to the river - indeed, only the hardiest and sprightliest rambler would have had any hope of getting near it.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007

He had been talking in the sprightliest mood before, but he sunk at once into utter silence, and in a few moments got up and left the house.

Washington Irving 2004

Hence it is that Fire itself is splendid beyond all material bodies, holding the rank of Ideal-Principle to the other elements, making ever upwards, the subtlest and sprightliest of all bodies, as very near to the unembodied; itself alone admitting no other, all the others penetrated by it: for they take warmth but this is never cold; it has colour primally; they receive the

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952