The economy is growing at a sprightly 3.2% a year.
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We also have a sprightly brisket for the Passover table.
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The melodies themselves are sprightly, but what surrounds it is terrifying.
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Not that sprightly Cui will be needing such products quite yet.
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Athan is sprightly — his luminous eyes dart and flutter like butterflies.
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Still, plenty of viscous books have been transfigured into sprightly films.
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Its compound of the hearty and the sprightly was an embarrassment.
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Nearby, Mariam, a sprightly woman of a certain age, was chain-smoking.
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The film, having launched a sprightly comic conceit, lets it glide away.
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Off the lobby, the 75-seat restaurant Scout does a sprightly business.
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But like the newly energized "Iceman," this "Journey" is often downright sprightly.
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Not showing the same sprightly bounce when you tug at the ends?
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She is in her twenties, a sprightly pop star with lungs of gold.
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It's a big, big swing for what is ultimately a pretty sprightly sitcom.
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Or does our electron have the sprightly insouciance of wind generation, or solar?
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However, that sprightly spirit is completely intentional and stands for something more political.
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It stars Taylor Mead, that sprightly nymph-like spirit of American underground cinema.
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And the evening's presentation of trophies was mostly an enjoyable, even sprightly time.
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Sprightly and energetic, it's also looser and more expansive than If You're Reading This.
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Instead, they were sprightly and fun, zipping along from big moment to big moment.
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Better was a crispy tempura crusted soft-shell crab atop a sprightly green salad.
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Sprightly despite his 90 years, Impagliazzo is known as Rome's "chef of the poor".
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Sprightly they are not, and one reason is that nostalgia is a burdensome emotion.
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Even the instrumentals, once sprightly and bright, have taken on a burnt, dusky timbre.
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There was a touch of impishness in his sprightly playing of the Rondo finale.
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The mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes sang with dazzling fullness as the sprightly page Urbain.
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Its low-slung body recalls a bulldog rather than a cheetah or sprightly prey animal.
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Its 100-mile range is plenty for city routes, and it's surprisingly sprightly to drive.
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The pair were lucky enough to snag a photo with a sprightly looking John backstage.
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The day after starts, deGrom's arm is sprightly enough to fling a football 50 yards.
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But Magda Haroun (pictured), a sprightly 65-year-old, wants to keep their memories alive.
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"Yes, yes, I am still alive," a sprightly looking Mahathir said at a 222 a.m.
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Obviously kicking the legs rapidly diminishes a man's ability to move in a sprightly manner.
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Sprightly is a product emerging from Microsoft's internal incubator and R&D outfit dubbed Microsoft Garage.
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White portrays Westheimer as sprightly even in advanced age, always eager to embark on new projects.
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Something sprightly is afoot, however, and it's Oldman's feet, among other things, that make the difference.
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We meet a sprightly gray bunny who burrows into the territory of a hulking, lonely bear.
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Five knights in plastic armor encountered five sprightly maidens but made little progress in wooing them.
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He heard the click of her heels, a sprightly sound, different from the thump of boots.
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Because it skips around on electric motors instead of standard hydraulics, its movement is unusually sprightly.
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It begins with sprightly Celtic fiddle music and show-off knees-up and step-dancing moves.
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The sprightly beginning of the Sanctus barely held together; the Dies Irae lacked grandeur and terror.
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At a loss, I asked my boss, Gladys, a sprightly senior, one month away from retiring.
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Starting Monday, Ballet Theater switches gears from somber to sprightly with "Don Quixote," another ballet staple.
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Mr. Lund's playing is hunkered and cleanly stated; Mr. Fortner has a sprightly and additive sensibility.
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Warren, who is sixty-nine, is thin and sprightly, with bright-blue eyes and flushed cheeks.
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Death creates orphans, the Victorians' sprightly vehicle for social mobility — Oliver Twist, say, and Jane Eyre.
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While remarkably similar in concept to Adobe Spark and Canva, Sprightly has a slightly narrower core focus.
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Sprightly falls in this latter category, given its conceptual similarity to established players in the design space.
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"All breeds welcome," it lied, with an image of a really tiny and really sprightly corgi puppy.
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Burst Mode can be helpful in taking pictures of sporting events, sprightly toddlers and fast-moving pets.
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She is simply reminding me, in her earnest and rather sprightly way, that death comes for everyone.
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When I meet Hunter Schafer the morning after Burberry's London Fashion Week party, she's warm and sprightly.
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"We were told not to talk about bad things," said Wu Guilan, a sprightly 67-year-old woman.
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To keep up with the sprightly senior with a taste for cake, you can follow her on Instagram!
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Tsuneo Watanabe, editor-in-chief of the world's biggest-circulation newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun, is a sprightly 90.
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A recent video by their Bavarian chapter shows rolling hills and sprightly young men boxing in woodland dells.
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The series of tubes we know and love as the web is now a sprightly 30 years old.
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He has blue eyes, a prominent nose, a sprightly step—he often takes stairs two at a time.
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In the sprightly first variation, Mr. Labadie's arrangement for full string orchestra sounds like a hearty concerto grosso.
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Normally sprightly and chatty, Frazier declined to speak with reporters after his move to the I.L. was announced.
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But Charyn's empathic first-person strategy keeps the tone sprightly positive, undercutting the braggadocio with paradoxical self-deprecation.
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Amid sprightly ad jingles, a program director wants to hear Irving Berlin's "God Bless America," which Guthrie detested.
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Sprightly, too, aims at democratizing design, but is especially targeting smaller retailers who engage with customers on social media.
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But he is a sprightly 45, allies say, despite any suggestions that he was born in a starched shirt.
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The BKT salad swaps out lettuce for kale, and there are many cool Asian influences in the sprightly dressings.
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Some are sprightly and speedy, others slower around the baseline but hit with a lot more power than most.
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It is both stone cold academically astute and symbolically intriguing, revealing the sprightly potential inherent in all revolutionary hopes.
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On the table, there are rosemary sprigs plucked from a nearby bed, sprightly succulents and white hydrangeas and roses.
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The song, a sprightly Huttese rap number called "Jabba Flow," was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of Hamilton.
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Microsoft is taking on Adobe Spark Post and startups like Canva with its new app Sprightly, available today on iOS.
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A sprightly person who died suddenly might be able to pass on millions, since their care costs would be zero.
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Microsoft also released an Android app called Sprightly this week, which is meant to let businesses quickly put together fliers.
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If anything, the data suggest that our minds are more sprightly at this time of year than in the summer.
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Google, for its part, has always portrayed the shape of its sprightly, two-passenger pod as cute and non-threatening.
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Sprightly beats are ransacked from Bernstein's own "West Side Story" and "Trouble in Tahiti," losing their spring in the process.
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Valencia looked more dangerous and sprightly going forward, but didn't have the cutting edge to match its build-up play.
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They all follow an almost identical progression of movements loosely based on dance forms, including grave Sarabandes and sprightly Gigues.
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But where the 2019 awards were sprightly and largely entertaining, the 2020 awards felt like they had absolutely no focus.
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Ms. Childs, now 19933, has long been famous for her choreography's blend of dance minimalism, sprightly virtuosity and geometric patterns.
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Then your teeth would sink into the gently simmered filling — beef or lamb, maybe, punctuated with sprightly flecks of pepper.
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Europe's biggest economy grew by 0.4% from January to March, propelled by higher household spending and a sprightly construction sector.
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Perry's sprightly painting style and use of radiant, almost neon paint, forms a rambunctious lusty image, forcing the viewer's undivided attention.
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Joel Jeske, another Parallel Exit member who has teamed with Big Apple before, supplied the concept and the sprightly clowning material.
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Mahathir Mohamad, a sprightly 92-year-old former prime minister who had quit the ruling party in disgust, will replace him.
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Not since Watership Down have rabbits carried the weight of such violent and vulnerable premonitions, but Luchs's figures are nonetheless sprightly.
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As it happens, the congress, which concluded in pomp on January 28th, ended up backing an only slightly more sprightly reptile.
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And insiders have also suggested she fears that she might trip over younger, sprightly pups as they scurry around her feet.
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But nearly everything has a sprightly energy and a hypnotic power that exceeds its size and effortlessly synthesizes East and West.
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The moment we stepped off the plane, he transformed before my eyes from an antediluvian Israeli politician into a sprightly statesman.
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Hard cornering reveals some understeer, but the Civic is sprightly with brake torque vectoring and road feel through the steering wheel.
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A sprightly employee named Yvonne said we could burn 500 to 800 calories and asked what we wanted to listen to.
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In the solo "American Overture," the sprightly Twyla Tharp dancer Reed Tankersley is Uncle Sam dancing to a Leonard Bernstein score.
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Because this is Bollywood, the training montages are accompanied by sprightly pop music, though not as choreographed song-and-dance numbers.
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Perfectly roasted Brussels sprouts, however, ooze with blue cheese and are quickly devoured, while thyme renders a chicken sipping broth sprightly.
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At 78, he would be the oldest president by far — Trump will become the oldest in January, at a sprightly 70.
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Where the first installment of Daily Rituals delighted in the anecdotal for its own sake, the second is a little less sprightly.
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" Even good reviews, like the one Edward Guthmann wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle, dismissed the "sprightly comedy" as "not particularly deep.
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But things turned around when the sprightly Jord Haider was elected in 1986, and the Freedom Party started inching towards the mainstream.
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Just one in five of those sprightly 18 to 21-year-olds choose to cough up the cash for a civilised pint.
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So he sets off, with the aid of a sprightly, sensible townie, DeeDee (Stefania Owen), for the author's home in New Hampshire.
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Baird sounds both sprightly and weary, anchoring us in this world even as Lattimore's pristine harp tries to take us somewhere else.
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This, it turns out, is fairly close to reality for cuttlefish, the sprightly relatives of squids and octopuses, according to new research.
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The decade of aging has given it a moderately tawny color and a softer, less sprightly and more complex set of flavors.
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The other refers to sprightly Sue Ann who, despite her infectious giggle, turns out to be far more pathological than her suitor.
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I see him in the White House photos, but he never has that sprightly Prince of Darkness gleam in his eye anymore.
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Dan Budnik took the picture in 1975, around the time the artist was a sprightly 88, but didn't print it until 2000.
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He is sprightly in manner, but sometimes uses a walking stick, and two strokes and triple bypass surgery have slowed him down.
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Their sprightly first waltz suggests their pleasure both to be in human form and to be protected by the prince and his men.
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At a sprightly 49 years old and appointed to a life-long term, Mr Gorsuch could easily remain on the court for decades.
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Asia's coal-fired power regiment has a sprightly average age of 15, compared with a creaky 40 years in America, close to retirement.
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The "Brothers" were a concept 19783-21978—Danish-trained electronics whiz Álvarez plays and sings every sound on every strange, sprightly track here.
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A film that plays during the sprightly overture shows Beauty and her lover dancing at a club with friends, passing around drug tablets.
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My body was soon back to its productive, sprightly ways, and I went through the day without much thought to my culinary experiment.
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In the opening section, Ms. Wilde, wearing a kilt, led two men in a sprightly dance filled with crisp footwork and small jumps.
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Harvey's most recent book, You an Orchestra You a Bomb, recalls in sprightly color and inky darkness the shortness of our time on earth.
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People are living longer and staying healthier, so many have at least 20-30 years of retirement, for much of which they are sprightly.
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Collins' portrayal of Fantine is sprightly and full of optimism — making it all the more heart-wrenching as her bleak future comes to pass.
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A sprightly 68-year-old, Mr. Seelig is one of the artistic directors of the London International Mime Festival, which he founded in 1977.
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FIVE years ago Zach Sims, a sprightly, striving 21-year-old, launched Codeacademy, a startup, to offer online courses about how to write software.
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He wheels his bike confidently up to the cafe, birdlike and sprightly in a striped shirt and skinny jeans, and wolfs down an éclair.
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During an early scene in the film, Blanca entertains the guests with a performance of a sprightly toccata by the 18th-century composer Paradisi.
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But the particular years recounted in this essential, absorbing and mostly sprightly history went a long way in shaping the pulsating city we know.
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The cutest image is the final one: the poised and sprightly Robyn Hendricks lounging on a giant recliner formed by the other dancers' bodies.
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The tales come in a sprightly variety of modes, from a handwritten list to a meditation on school buses that brushes up against poetry.
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The crack was directed at Bay, the lone American among the three of them; Bay is not fat at all, but slight and sprightly.
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There is Lady Leshurr, who recently released a winning EP, "Mode," and who sprinkles bits of dancehall and grime into her sprightly hip-hop.
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This family-friendly work incorporates bright costumes, kamishibai (a form of visual storytelling that was big in the early 20th century) and sprightly characters.
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Abounding in sensuous melodies, sprightly meters, lavish colors, it's the main reason "Raymonda" keeps being revived, either in full-length stagings or one-act abridgments.
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The average Lord is 69 years old—nearly a generation greyer than the Commons, whose average age is a sprightly 50—and 13 are nonagenarians.
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Mr Weah, himself a sprightly 51, lost to the current president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, in 2005, and then as a vice-presidential candidate in 2011.
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That is partly because of Mr Prabowo's running-mate, Sandiaga Uno, a businessman who is a sprightly 49-year-old, whereas Mr Amin is 75.
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Intel is still one of the giants of the global tech industry, but it's no longer as healthy and sprightly as it used to be.
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Here, she steps out on her own to celebrate "Young in All the Wrong Ways," a sprightly and nuanced album that arrives on July 1.
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When thoughtfully made with really good ingredients, pasta salad can (and should) be divine — the fresh and sprightly sleeper hit of your next summer soirée.
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Since its April opening in Ashland, it has proved a sprightly hit, packing the 600-seat Angus Bowmer Theater, where it runs through Oct. 27.
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Mr. MacGregor, a sprightly man who gives the impression of unbounded energy, said he tries to look past the many obstacles the Forum has encountered.
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By the time the music proper kicks in, with its jouncing 4/4 strings and its sprightly whistled melody, she has invariably stopped crying altogether.
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Salutes to the rough glories of the period's downtown scene begin with wallpaper, by Keith Haring, printed with linear webs made in his sprightly style.
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The film is a little too sprightly to land any heavy punches — it's more of a comedy with satirical elements than a true satirical tale.
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They represent an experienced core, while youngsters like Roma forward Stephan El Shaaraway and Juventus striker Simone Zaza should bring some sprightly exuberance to the team.
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Then Mr. Ax and Mr. Lang, making an unlikely piano duo, gave a sprightly account of Dvorak's Slavonic Dance in G minor for piano four-hands.
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It was a lovely, sprightly choice, less glamorous than what Ms. Obama often selects for such events, but in this case, well suited to the occasion.
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Chirping synths, sprightly woodwinds, and jittery juke percussion wow and flutter with all the life and biodiversity of a rainforest floor, baking in the summer heat.
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"I've been working for a long time, too long," a relaxed and sprightly Li said on Friday after announcing he would step down on May 10.
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She plays Jenny Mellor, a sprightly 16-year-old ingénue who starts dating an older man at Oxford University, much to the chagrin of her teachers.
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The show, "Rodin at the Met," offers eerie moonlit allegorical scenes by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes that enliven Rodin's sprightly bronze portrait bust of that painter.
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In any case the duo—made up of Jeff Cormack and Kelly Lueke—make a very sprightly kind of indie-pop, 60s-tinged and feeling fine.
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The fire god Loge (Russell Thomas, sounding bronzed and burnished and wanting just a touch more viciousness) isn't the usual sprightly trickster, but wry and thoughtful.
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Tall, sprightly and home from day care, she wanted to dance and talk and hold hands and draw a portrait of her mother all at once.
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If all these videos focused on was the sprightly crispness of her onion dicing, De mi Rancho a Tu Cocina would be worth the admission alone.
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But Biden, too, was bolstered by the presence of 78-year-old Bloomberg, whose often sleepy countenance made the 77-year-old seem sprightly by comparison.
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Playing to a packed house in the National Theatre in Tokyo is one of those groups: the Reigakusha ensemble, led by Sukeyasu Shiba, a sprightly octogenarian (pictured).
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She was trying to write with flair, though, in short spaces, and most of the reviews are sprightly, wisecracking things that seem more like Parker than Didion.
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Sir Vince Cable, a sprightly 277-year-old, was crowned leader of the Liberal Democrats on July 21970th after Tim Farron, a whippersnapper of 250, stepped down.
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EU officials speak of a window of opportunity for reforms opened by Emmanuel Macron's election in France, a sprightly economic upswing and the unfamiliar absence of crisis.
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The overpowering nature of Violet's mother, Pauletta (Lynn Whitfield), is matched with confidence by the sprightly Zoe, who quickly snaps back at her in their first encounter.
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Mahathir appeared jubilant and sprightly at a news conference claiming victory overnight, even joking with reporters, and will have an audience with Malaysia's king later on Thursday.
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You can sense the director Jonathan Silverstein's enthusiasm for the material in the bright pacing, the sprightly use of the onstage band, the generosity toward the performers.
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Immediately after the jubilant ending of "Iolanta," the sprightly opening bars of "The Nutcracker" play as that proscenium expands, revealing it to be part of a mansion.
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BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA A deep dive into (more) Bartok over two evenings, this sprightly orchestra's stand will doubtless be enlivened by its music director Ivan Fischer's surprises.
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Played by Ms. Namekawa with sprightly sensuality and exuberant wit, it burst with precocious energy — and outdid in profundity much music written by composers many decades older.
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Without reading the label, you would not know that avocado is one of the base ingredients (along with onion purée) in this sprightly new line of sauces.
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Designed as a framework to be stuffed with tuneful songs, vaudeville turns, sprightly dancing, insinuating jokes and cartoon characterizations, "Mattress" has its charms, but they do wear thin.
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Battle of Okinawa Urasaki's childhood experience of the US military couldn't be further from that of 215-year-old Yoshiko Shimabukuro, whose sprightly demeanor belies a tragic past.
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Yep, that innocuous herb we've been digging out for lamb roasts or sprinkling on potato wedges if we're feeling fancy could be what keeps Acciaroli's citizens so sprightly.
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Meet South Korea's Park Mak-rye, a sprightly 70-year-old whose Youtube channel "Grandma's Diary", has made her a social media sensation, drawing more than 277,000 subscribers.
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As Wael, a former street child who steals wallets and hearts, Kheiron prowls through "Bad Seeds" with a sprightly restlessness that seems rooted in his stand-up comedy.
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J.P. The new Lil Baby mixtape "Harder Than Ever" has impressive guest appearances by Drake, Gunna, Lil Uzi Vert and more, but this sprightly standout has no distractions.
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A modern glass house, for example, might call for sprightly metal-and-mesh chairs, while a more traditional one may demand heavier teak pieces or ornate wrought iron.
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Each legal team was allotted five minutes to answer each question, meaning that the day -- that unfolded almost like a law school seminar -- unfolded at a sprightly pace.
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Minutes later, Olivier Giroud, fed by sprightly substitute Coman, forced a diving save from Patricio, who then parried away a pile-driver from Sissoko as France turned the screw.
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China's main bourses made back almost half the 4 percent they lost in Friday's mauling as the central bank chief pledged more support, but not everywhere was so sprightly.
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Here's an excerpt from that 2011 review: Playing for Pizza should be a sprightly, introspective read about the folly of prolonged youth and the different forms redemption can take.
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Janet Waldo, a voice-over actress who played sprightly teenagers for decades on popular cartoon shows, most notably "The Jetsons," died on Sunday at her home in Encino, Calif.
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Nothing was wrong with succulent grilled squid (ika) on a bed of sprightly greens; or a half-dozen fresh, gently fried whole baby octopus (tako) on sesame-laced seaweed.
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There is a marvelously sprightly, loose and intuitive feel about Twombly's operatic paintings that manages to merge mythic, classical intellectualism with a Dionysian sensual immoderation that verges on shit.
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In fact, the leather was shaved to considerable lightness and leavened further by the sprightly game of peekaboo Ms. Castiglioni seemed to be playing with all the other clothes.
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LeBron James just finished his absolute tear at the Eastern Conference Finals, defeating a sprightly Raptors squad that at least gave the Cavs mad chase on their way out.
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Mr Ellenhorn countered that Mr Greenberg continues to run an important insurer, C.V. Starr, that buried within its operations is control of a securities firm, and that he remains sprightly.
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And then there's this... Although it's not exactly Loreleai and Rory palling around or snapping repartee across a dinner table, it is a very sprightly-looking Ms. Patty's dance studio.
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Mostly, it just clomps, two-steps and square dances along its relentlessly exuberant way, with sprightly choreography by Connor Gallagher and rowdy barn-dance music, performed by the band onstage.
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The cluing on this puzzle was sprightly and very balanced, especially when you consider that its maker has probably lived about 98 percent of her life in the 21st century.
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Over four seasons, the Netflix series "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" turned the story of a woman freed after being kidnapped and held underground for 15 years into a sprightly, joyous comedy.
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That a wayward dokebi should choose to haunt a serene block in Williamsburg, and serve variegated, sprightly Korean fare, exemplifies the spirit's enduring mischief and its shape-shifting culinary offerings.
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Instead, look past Gucci Mane to the piano, where his longtime producer Zaytoven is sitting, enthusiastically playing some roadhouse soul, maybe a little jazz, and oodles of sprightly little fills.
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Over nearly two decades, this Canadian collective — featuring the frontman A. C. Newman and the singer-songwriter Neko Case — has turned out seven remarkably consistent albums of sprightly power pop.
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The northern Thai-inspired Isan set is another oversize tray holding a sprightly som tum salad, minced pork larb and exceptional charred chicken thighs served in a rooster-shaped basket.
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LONDON — The story of Keira Ball, a sprightly 9 year old, did not end in the summer of 2017, when she was fatally injured in a car accident in England.
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It concludes a program that also features Ms. Snider's premiere and Shostakovich's sprightly Concerto for Piano (Yuja Wang, in some luxury casting), Trumpet (the orchestra's principal, Christopher Martin) and Strings.
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New Wave band DEVO and the iconic 'energy dome' hats worn by its members are perhaps the epitome of 80s sprightly extravagance, highly-memorable relics of a highly-specific cultural moment.
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They sprightly discuss the merits of Joseph Lenin, stealth kill-tactics and the need to suspend civil liberties for a short period between overthrowing the government and installing a new one.
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TechCrunch itself has covered several of these Garage projects, for example, including design app Sprightly, the Hub Keyboard, notes app Plumbago, news app News Pro and email app Send, among others.
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It has the aura of a morbidly picturesque fairy tale, with Monaghan's compact, sprightly and inexhaustible Richard bringing to mind one of the vengeful, quick-tempered gnomes common to such stories.
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It's the jangley guitars, the effects on Brad Oberhofer's voice, the delightful quiver-quaver of his delivery, and the sprightly bounce of this melody—they all smack of days gone by.
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In Jack E. Davis's sprightly and sweeping new history, "The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea," the spill is both culmination and footnote to five centuries of restless human energies.
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Jane Austen's "Emma" is given a charming, sprightly adaptation by Autumn de Wilde, a director of music videos making her feature debut with novelist turned screenwriter Eleanor Catton's lively, faithful script.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the Communist-backed candidate who, thanks to support from young people, surged in the polls ahead of the first round of France's presidential election, is a sprightly 22011.
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The production design and costumes are sprightly and colorful, and Lawrence is terrific at keeping the story moving, even when it doesn't seem like it has any reason to keep going.
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Pop & Rock Over nearly two decades, this Canadian collective — featuring the frontman A.C. Newman and the singer-songwriter Neko Case — has turned out seven remarkably consistent albums of sprightly power pop.
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The way in which he overlaps his drawings with the image projected on his phone creates a seamless and sprightly visual illusion, blurring the lines between the physical and digital world.
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The Jerusalem Quartet leads the charge, bringing its youthful energy and old-school gloss to Beethoven's sprightly Op. 18 quartets in two concerts at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday at 5 p.m.
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The plot is a standard (if sprightly) tale of genius overcoming limitations: Would-be gourmet chef Remy is the genius, and the unfortunate fact that he is a rat is the limitation.
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Moore recognized the danger of getting too caught up in looking sprightly and made a really good point about the way the quest for the fountain of youth is portrayed in art.
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Johannes Schenk's twelve viol sonatas, by turns sprightly and solemn, and collectively called "Le Nymphe di Rheno," were a swan song, in 1702, for the now archaic ancestors of the modern violin.
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You can feel the verve of the happy few in a sprightly painting by Bazille, dated 1869-70, which shows him and five of his colleagues socializing in a daylight-suffused studio.
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Beerkens' study recorded the impressions of a focus group that credited the expressiveness of the object to its "sprightly impression," to its "improvised and immediate, personal character," and to those characteristic sounds.
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The A-side "Vuelve" is sprightly and fluttering, like a prism refracting a Francois Hardy song, and the flip is a bit more downcast, but each are full of life and light.
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A lot of activity often happens at once in McBride's ensemble: spitfire soloing from the saxophones and brass; calisthenic bowed-bass workouts from the bandleader; sprightly, charging momentum from the rhythm section.
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Wearing a bowler hat and tan jacket and appearing sprightly, he stood erect on an elevated stand, clasping his hands behind his back as the rain poured down, and marines marched by.
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Mr. Wrigley also commissioned a Mother Goose booklet starring "Sprightly Spearman," the mascot for Spearmint gum, and sent thousands of the booklets to schools in poor areas, according to the Wrigley website.
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Knee deep in the midst of drops, a sprightly Latin guitar song emerges from the mix, and what turns out to be a Cuban folk classic immediately incites screams from the crowd.
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In sprightly language and adorable line drawings, they tell the story of a young girl whose eyes are wide open to the beauty and the struggles of the place where she lives.
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This sprightly comedy follows a high schooler, Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), her daffy cousin Orla (Louisa Harland), and her friends Michelle, Clare and James (Nicola Coughlan, Jamie-Lee O'Donnell and Dylan Llewellyn).
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Porto, who had looked sprightly in the opening minutes, seemed deflated, although a curling free kick from Miguel Layun that drifted just wide came close to leveling the encounter 10 minutes before halftime.
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And there's so much more happening in this sprightly book — Heidi's odd jobs, two entire unrelated scandals, plenty of hockey — that as soon as the momentum flags you're on to the next play.
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As reconceived by the playwright Jack Thorne and the director Matthew Warchus, this sprightly version of Dickens's deathless portrait of a miser makes a pointed case for the personal benefits of redistributing wealth.
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"What is a killer like you gonna do here?" cushions hushed growls under a jazzy, vamping beat; "In Ashes" blends righteous hollering with blastbeats; the three-part "Sacrilegium" suite is all sprightly retrofuturist synth.
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Now 85, still sprightly and living in Perth, he's been waiting half a century for the chance to share with the world what he knows about one of the solar system's most baffling substances.
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I'd like to praise the sprightly and scatterbrained character of Annie Hall (Diane Keaton): her sunglasses worn indoors like a way-cooler Bono, her reckless driving, her fear of spiders and love of photography.
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Mr. Owens's devotees are seldom seen wearing anything but black, almost always unadorned, except for — as in the case of his wife, Michele Lamy — perhaps a pair of antlers worn as a sprightly crown.
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Well, unlike the sprightly Mr. Wonka, Halliday is dead, but no matter, for he remains alive in the shape of his digital avatar, a gnomic graybeard by the name of—give me strength—Anorak.
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Cocteau's surrealism, by turns sprightly and lightly self-pitying, generates high spirits in the opera, as when jaunty music enlivens the scene of cafe-life bohemia that opens this adaptation of the Orpheus myth.
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This is a chronological and sprightly overview of Ferlinghetti's six-decade-long career, filled with poems about everything from lust and politics to baseball and the author's love for San Francisco and its vicissitudes.
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Their childish enthusiasm, which to this day induces them to rap and sing in higher registers than sounds natural, made Sremmlife (2015) and Sremmlife 2 (2016) the most sprightly and callow of rap jewels.
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Sprightly as ever, these beats form a thicker, chewier soundscape, with scratches jittering, sparks flying, cut-up groans and shrieks chiming in from everywhere, over steady drums, cunningly timed rhythm guitar, fusion keyboards layered gorgeously.
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As the sections unfold and couples dash in and out — Zimmi Coker, sunny and sweet, and Gabe Stone Shayer infuse a folk-infused section with sprightly jumps — hints of a narrative emerge, but only hazily.
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My spaceship, a sprightly craft that seats one and has a lot of punch, is just where I left it, though the pyramid-shaped space station is much more bustling than it used to be.
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For the sprightly 74-year-old Damascus-born, Paris-based artist, notions of identity and nationalism developed out of her immersion in the history, archeology, poetry, and religious texts of Lebanese and Middle Eastern culture.
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CARAMANICA A sprightly and weird off-cycle song by Kanye West, released by DJ Clark Kent via a WeTransfer download posted on Twitter, "XTCY" is Mr. West at his most abstract, and also his funniest.
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For the sprightly, laughing Southerner is literally 'frightened to death' by lightning, and it must have been small comfort to see a telephone pole a block away struck by a bolt and burning merrily away.
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Instead it showcased Mr. Weissberg's three-finger Earl Scruggs-style banjo in a sprightly call-and-response — more of a dance than a fight — with the flat-picked acoustic guitar of his collaborator, Steve Mandell.
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Improvising on the ragas — the melodic germs of Indian music — that form the work's core, Anoushka Shankar, the composer's daughter and a proselytizer for his music, was a magnetic soloist, her sound sprightly and sly.
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Decorated with the sprightly sterility of a Swiss clinic as imagined by Stanley Kubrick, the suite is filled with art pieces from the physician's collection by Ross Bleckner, Jean Cocteau, Catherine Opie and David Shrigley.
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As for the Fiat I'm driving, the electric conversion has sharply boosted its own power and acceleration, from the original's 2000-second ooze from zero to 21 miles an hour to roughly seven sprightly seconds.
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The 23-year-old stars opposite four-time Academy Award nominee Annette Bening in EW's exclusive preview of The Seagull, a sprightly costume drama adapted from Anton Chekhov's esteemed 1896 stage play of the same name.
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But the melody, which steps through a string of sprightly notes as if guided by some faultless celestial logic, gives the song the feel of a folk artifact, a thing that's as old as the hills.
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No longer introducing English soccer hooligans (or Chinese Triads) to Muay Thai, these days the sprightly and youthful 62-year-old is a roving ambassador of the sporting Martial Art with an alphabet soup of honors.
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Meanwhile, the orchestra's fictional corollary — the New York Symphony — is staying firmly in the hands of the sprightly Rodrigo De Souza (Gael García Bernal) as the fourth season of "Mozart in the Jungle" arrives on Friday.
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The broth is rich but not cloying, the noodles appropriately springy, the whole egg—poached in its shell before being gently released into the broth like a sprightly dolphin freed from a trawler's net—famously luxurious.
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As he showed in his earlier books "1491" and "1493" Mann's storytelling skills are unmatched — the sprightly tempo with which this book unfolds, each question answered as it comes to mind, makes for pure pleasure reading.
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Jessica Weisberg begins "Asking for a Friend," her sprightly history of the advice column, with Dunton, which is apt not only because he invented the genre but because he inadvertently anticipated its next several hundred years.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — A windswept hillside seen on a sunny spring day, its bright red poppies rendered in sprightly strokes of paint, a mottled smudge of a haystack in the distance: It's a classic French Impressionist scene.
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This rebellion took place largely on paper, in sprightly strokes of red chalk and splashes of brown wash that were, in form and spirit, the opposite of the history paintings he had been trained to produce.
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"I wanted to learn how to make the world a better place through it," said Ms. Vosper, who is sprightly, with short salt-and-pepper hair, chunky glasses and a penchant for bubbling over with language.
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The Jerusalem Quartet takes on the first leg with performances of the sprightly Op. 18 quartets on Sunday and Tuesday, promising the sort of sweet and graceful playing it brought to its recent recording of this music.
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This sprightly upward mobility reflects both the growth of the museum's ambitions in the three decades since its creation by Sir Terence Conran, but also a greater demand and respect for good design by the wider public.
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A photo recently shared by first lady Melania Trump on Twitter in which she and President Donald Trump are seen posing sprightly with a baby who survived the El Paso shooting has ignited confusion and anger online.
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Barrel-aged shochu is muddled with one or two sprightly segments of mikan orange, subjected to a calisthenic shake and strained into a delicately etched glass before a shimmer of sparkling wine is laid down on top.
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With two years still to go in his high-school career, there's already talk that the sprightly, six-foot-four-inch defensive end could be the best pass rusher to come out of the West Coast this millennium.
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If anything, the all-pervasive gray that surrounded me at every turn added to a kind of spooky aesthetic, one of abandonment, though you can see how sprightly the place could be once there's a bit of sunshine.
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Knightley has quite a bit of fun with her role as the sprightly Sugar Plum, adopting a high-pitched, whack-a-doodle characterization that is Reese Witherspoon in "A Wrinkle in Time" meets Helena Bonham Carter in everything.
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In person, Feist's sprightly demeanor does not betray her inner burdens; leave her alone for a moment, and you might return to find her practicing "Silent Night" on a harmonica, giggling knowingly at the absurdity of the scene.
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On the second floor of the museum, nestled between the Halls of Texas and African Wildlife, the HMNS has faithfully recreated a Renaissance cabinet of curiosities, right down to the sprightly lyre music plucking away in the background.
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As I hear this sprightly, allusive, elusive, technically accomplished collection, all but a few of its 18 melodic yet seldom uplifting or effervescent songs bespeak some fraught combination of lost youth, career anxiety, and, way down deep, political dismay.
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It's the first cut from their forthcoming third album, scheduled to drop this October and if the rest of the tracks are anywhere as sprightly as this number, they'll be bring the summer party straight into fall and beyond.
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Fuwaku, founded in 1948, is one of approximately 150 Japanese clubs that stage competitive, full-contact matches for players over the age of 40 and the oldest man on the park is sprightly 543-year-old lock Ryuichi Nagayama.
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She was a sprightly girl of 18 when she ascended to the throne of the British Empire in 1837, and a revered global presence — a grandmotherly figure to her millions of subjects — when she died in 23 at 81.
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Lifted from her upcoming new LP Midnight Room, "Raised by Wolves" is a sprightly pop number, with the perfect pinch of melancholy and a smidge of Rod Stewart's "Young Turks"—which, if you're not familiar, please get involved immediately.
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"If 'environmentalist' was a dirty word before, now every resident of Baykalsk says, 'I am an environmentalist,'" said Tatiana Gluckman, a sprightly pulp factory employee turned town politician who jousted with Ms. Rikhvanova before becoming her main local ally.
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Having bowed out of directing the 2004 movie version of "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events," he returns to help launch the new Netflix series, a sprightly, whimsical affair featuring Neil Patrick Harris in Jim Carrey's hammy Count Olaf role.
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And Sprightly isn't just trying to solve the on-the-go challenge of easier graphic creation – it's also trying to offer a tool for those whose smartphones or mobile devices are their primary, if not their only, means of working.
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Sprightly, sour, agile and efficient, Physically Sick ends on a moderately hopeful note: over glittery synthesizer and chugging drums, Octo Octa's "Only Tears" bubbles over with sighing, moaning vocal snippets in a major key, a blast of breathy, wordless awe.
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So Mr. Ray has taken Fitzgerald's last work — in which his love and hate for the movie business remain unresolved, while jostling for space with a death-obsessed romance — and reimagined it as a sprightly but lamentably pedestrian showbiz melodrama.
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Over the years, he's toyed with distended ambient music, sprightly guitar pop, weirdo tape projects, acid house, and now largely unclassifiable electronic experiments—seeming to follow his every whim far beyond its logical endpoint, and without any specific audience in mind.
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But by knowing a scant few facts, and by starting at the bottom, I made my merry way through another sprightly weekend Robyn Weintraub puzzle and wound up with a finished grid and a distinctly brighter outlook on the day.
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Jun Chiyabari's equivalent of first flushes exhibits the full rush of alpine air and sprightly florals that have made Darjeeling teas so famous, but the estate's real specialty is small productions influenced by East Asian tea regions like China and Taiwan.
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Mr. Reich's Quartet for two pianos and two vibraphones, which opened the evening, was less characterful than at its 2014 American premiere in the smaller, subterranean Zankel Hall at Carnegie: its outer sections less sprightly, its slow middle less melancholy.
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These women and their looks — from Misia Sert's bohemian opulence at the turn of the last century to Twiggy's sprightly boyishness in the 1960s — can be as much an expression of their times as their era's music, literature or even politics.
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My great values for 2019 ranged from $9 for the sprightly La Salette 2018 Cotes de Gascogne, and Le Petit Balthazar rosé, both from France, to $47 for the Charles Orban Brut Rosé Champagne, a stellar bubbly for Valentine's Day.
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Most of the 10 who came had no formal drawing training, but they all plopped down on cushions to silently draw portraits of the "plant spirit": the classically trained ballet dancer Leah Mulartrick, who expressed the plant's life cycle with sprightly dance moves.
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The company has recently had huge success with its sprightly V8 cars — namely, the new 488 GTB, the 458 Speciale A and the California T. However, it can make more money on its pricier V12-engine models, which aren't selling as well.
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Not only is the video mildly disingenuous, then — the oldest Star Trek movie is a sprightly 37 years old — it also robs us of the chance to reminisce about "THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS," Uhura and Kirk's historic kiss, and Riker's majestic beard.
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Red Century H. G. Wells's foundational work of political science fiction, "The Time Machine," predicted a future in which a small utopia of sprightly elites is kept running by a subclass that lives below the ground and is reduced to bestial violence.
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You think you've known it forever — it's quoted all across popular culture — and yet you have only to listen to the overture, where the sprightly melody is soon irregularly punctuated by staccato chords, to hear how multilayered it is and how unpredictable.
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This new one features whimsical art and a recurring character, a sprightly spotted dog making its way through its day; when two children appear toward the end, one is dark-skinned, one light-skinned, also a needed update for this kind of book.
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We recognize him, or ourselves, in his effort to be sprightly, upbeat—to make life something other than what it is—even, or especially, in places like this dark, sad hotel lobby, which might as well be on the edge of the world.
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This week, more than three decades after he first arrived in Denmark, Mr. Sonko, a sprightly 62-year-old with a wide smile and 12 children, was promoted to part owner of the restaurant, widely regarded as being among the world's best.
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That sprightly marching-band melody at the start of Composition No. 58 — many of Mr. Braxton's works have similarly unrevealing titles and are "named" with enigmatic diagrams — turns dark as electronic sounds start to rip and squeal and the musical material becomes ominously repetitive.
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Luckily, they were about to be edified: "Seafood in Vietnam is traditionally served with scallion oil and peanuts," a waiter explained, recommending, instead, a dish of clams and congee, which also came with the oil-and-peanut seasoning, yet managed to taste sprightly and oceanic.
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Removed from van Hove's West Side Story are the following: the charming and sprightly "I Feel Pretty;" Jerome Robbins's iconic finger-snapping choreography; the fire escape from the fire escape scene; the all-white Jets; the 1950s setting; and much of Arthur Laurents's book.
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That African-American culture, while appreciated, was also caricatured, is evident in the dancing figures on glass vases by the Italian designer Guido Maria Balsamo Stella and a Paul Colin drawing of a sprightly couple in which the male partner might be in blackface.
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Before Daum came out as a loud opponent of woke culture, she was best known for sprightly personal essays that spoke to the concerns of modern feminists—about her struggles with debt as a young woman, for example, or her decision not to have children.
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The innovation is continuing—which is just as well, because within a few years it may face serious competition from Blue Origin, a rocket company owned by Mr Bezos which is likely to prove more sprightly, and more ambitious than those SpaceX has faced to date.
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As the dust settles, Booker, who was the most sprightly and unifying candidate on stage, may come to be seen as the big winner -- but with a caveat as he had to stand by as Biden prosecuted an attack over his record as mayor of Newark.
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Ms. Kobayashi, dressed simply in a white T-shirt and white jeans will play the reels for you, inviting you to read along in the script and occasionally pausing to explain her research or to show a photo, a video, a few frames of sprightly animation.
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Perhaps the biggest single intelligence leak to a reporter in American military history came in June 1942, as the journalist Elliott Carlson demonstrates in his sprightly STANLEY JOHNSTON'S BLUNDER: The Reporter Who Spilled the Secret Behind the U.S. Navy's Victory at Midway (Naval Institute Press, $29.95).
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At Bloomingdale's, a group of visual artists commissioned to create individual chandeliers on the general theme of "light" came up with sculptural fixtures evoking the moon, the stars, a human face in neon and a sprightly octopus with light bulbs at the tips of its tentacles.
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Descending a dank set of stairs directly below the inconspicuous sign—a downward arrow tinted sprightly green and white—patrons of this Village watering hole might be momentarily surprised to find a neighborhood nook that, in keeping with its name, is unequivocally on the up and up.
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Depicting celebrities like Justin Bieber, Leonardo DiCaprio, Willow Smith and Kim Kardashian West (with strawberry lips and Magic 8 Ball eyes), Yung Jake's paintings are sprightly renditions of digital images he began making in 2015 with an application developed by Vince McElvie, a business partner and friend.
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I can't say for certain why I had stopped following the NBA 10 years ago, though I suspect it was some combination of the Pistons trading away our sprightly floor general Chauncey Billups for a wilting Allen Iverson, and my more pressing middle school concerns, namely having no friends.
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The cold formality of the garden design, with its lines and angles and traditional box beds, was warmed by the climbing, rambling, wayward joy of the plump bushes, in an array of different colours but all with a healthy glow and sprightly charm that made them seem quite human.
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Through the program, a number of interesting projects have gotten their start over the years, like the Cortana-based dictation tool, Dictate; mobile design creation app Sprightly; short-form email app Send; the Word Flow keyboard for smartphones; a Bing-backed alternative to Google News; and dozens more.
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And Sarandon, fresh off her uncanny turn as the iconic Bette Davis in one of our favorite series of spring 2017, Ryan Murphy's Feud: Bette and Joan, reminds us yet again that at a sprightly 70, she remains one of the fiercest forces on the big screen today.
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The cheery shade, said to represent the sprightly optimism of that generation born between the mid-'90s and early '00s, is cropping up on Instagram and Pinterest, and in hair salons around the globe as more and more of us deliberately ditch the purple toner and embrace pop-art yellow.
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" Mating in Captivity " (2006), the book that brought her to public notice, was a sprightly disquisition on the anaphrodisiac effects of married life, in which she argued that the excessive value placed on communication and transparency in modern relationships tends to foster conjugal coziness at the expense of erotic vitality.
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Happily, the shirts themselves are well cut and well made, woven of Peruvian Pima cotton and each bearing a sprightly logo designed by Kayako Kobayashi of threatened and endangered animals, including the orangutan, white rhino, great white shark and — no conservation campaign these days is complete without one — the African elephant.
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Her self-titled debut album, released in 2006, was bolstered by a pair of warm-blooded singles—the sprightly "Our Song" and the love-worn "Tim McGraw"—that instantly established Swift as both confessor and confidante; she let listeners in on all of her secrets, while also giving them permission to sing along.
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She dispenses couples therapy, culinary tips, tarantella lessons and the occasional shot from a bottle hidden in her yard — all dished out with warmth and high style at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls, where this sprightly comedy is having its world premiere under the direction of Bram Lewis, Schoolhouse's artistic director.
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The limited fidelity of this transfer does slim justice to the sound, but even here you can appreciate the beauty of Mr. Dohnanyi's pacing as he lingers affectionately at the end of the first trio section to greet the return of the sprightly scherzo, where the momentum again threatens to break its bounds.
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Charles Wallace pretty quickly introduces Meg to a trio of magical benefactors -- played by Winfrey, a sprightly Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling -- who have come to recruit warriors, looking to repel The It, a shadowy evil that as described sounds like a close cousin of "Star Wars'" Dark Side of the Force.
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The Rescuers Down Under This sprightly sequel about two brave mice (voiced by Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor) mounting a rescue operation actually tops its predecessor, with the disclaimer that the first movie landed in 1977, a relatively fallow period in terms of Disney animation, with the sequel coming 13 years later.
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And while the film is a little too sprightly to land any heavy punches — it's more of a comedy with satirical elements than a true satirical tale — it's best as a coming-of-age story about a kid who's gotten lost in a world where loyalty has displaced love and bravado has displaced true bravery.
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As we see in "Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant — Works From New York Collections" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this rebellion took place largely on paper, in sprightly strokes of red chalk and splashes of brown wash that were, in form and spirit, the opposite of the history paintings he had been trained to produce.
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But in Henry Carr, a soldier and a dandy and a lover and a prig, who moves through the play sometimes in his sprightly 20s and sometimes in his fuddled 60s, Mr. Hollander has one of the great roles and one of the great monologues, a five-page tongue-twirler that begins the play.
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" That plays out with both venom and humor, often at the same time, like on "Fake Bitch," a light-sounding ballad with sprightly handclaps that opens with a horrifying—and depressingly familiar-sounding image: "I felt you press your dick against my thigh / When we hugged / I didn't ask for it / You're not the one I want.
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ON THE morning of November 8th a small crowd—one sprightly second world war veteran with a cane, a group of junior military attachés from allied countries and some curious tourists—gathered at the imposing World War II memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC for the 75th anniversary commemoration of Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa.
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Caroline Bourgeois, one of the most precise curators working today, has delivered a customarily sprightly show that mixes older and newer works — and that also uses some of Mr. Tuymans's best early paintings (such as "Our New Quarters," a chilling 1986 painting after a postcard of a concentration camp) as ballast for shallower later efforts derived from iPhone imagery.
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It's a delight, gracefully performed here: Mr. Esfahani joins for concertos by Martinu and Manuel de Falla — the latter a sprightly, sometimes poignant work in which the harpsichord is joined by flute, oboe, clarinet, violin and cello: As I write this, on Friday evening, Yannick Nézet-Séguin is conducting Poulenc's "Dialogues des Carmélites" at the Metropolitan Opera.
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That imaginary friend is one Adolf Hitler, and while the film is a little too sprightly to land any heavy punches — it's more of a comedy with satirical elements than a true satirical tale — it's best as a coming-of-age story about a kid who's gotten lost in a world where loyalty has displaced love and where bravado has displaced true bravery.
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That imaginary friend is one Adolf Hitler, and while the film is a little too sprightly to land any heavy punches — it's more of a comedy with satirical elements than a true satirical tale — it's best as a coming-of-age story about a kid who's gotten lost in a world where loyalty has displaced love and bravado has displaced true bravery.
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In a sprightly new book, " The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History " (Little, Brown), Nathalia Holt, a science journalist and a popular historian, introduces us to a handful of women who worked on some of the classic Disney Studios films, spins them around, sprinkles some pixie dust, and has them take a bow.
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The Simpsons - "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(D'oh!)cious" The Simpsons is practically perfect in every way when it comes to conceptualizing musical numbers, but its Mary Poppins homage is one of its finest half-hours — going all in on the parody by introducing a sprightly British nanny who soon realizes that there's no spoonful of sugar strong enough to help her deal with the Simpson family. 2.
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Cohen is interested in who remains inside and who outside the pale, but the novel's "others" — Diggs and her late-arriving parents; Lloyd's daughter, Ellerby, whose mother is from Nicaragua; a new neighboring Haredi family — are essentially bystanders in the Blumenthals' festivities, mostly because the family itself (the three other children are teenage Tom and sprightly young Mantha and Pim) is somewhat self-absorbed.
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And that is saying a lot when you are talking about topcoats with lapels of multicolor mink in a sprightly tile pattern, sleeveless dusters worn over leopard-stenciled bombers, fur shower shoes incised with the Fendi logo, sable neck pillows to wear on the Gulfstream G650, and overcoats of fur and rubber bonded so they can be worn either right-side or inside-out.
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A sprightly, attractively composed coming-of-age comedy set in World War II Germany, "Jojo Rabbit" is an audacious high-wire act: a satire in which a buffoonish Adolf Hitler delivers some of the funniest moments; a wrenchingly tender portrait of a mother's love for her son; a lampoon of the most destructive ideological forces that still threaten society and — perhaps most powerfully — an improbably affecting chronicle of moral evolution.
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These past three or four years have been a kind of Indian summer for Chast, with blossomings of newly confident work of all kinds: live performances, both antic and more resolute than anything before, and several books—including her downright sprightly and uplifting tale of the city, " Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York "—that are more broadly accessible than her earlier collections of New Yorker cartoons.
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The curators Ann Temkin and Cara Manes have honored the collection with a sprightly hang, featuring unexpected rhymes (a cube of burned wood by Jackie Winsor alongside a print by Willie Cole made with scorching-hot irons) and culminating with a major new acquisition: Kara Walker's "Christ's Entry Into Journalism," a massive collage of violent passages from history and the present that was the high point of last year's exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. The bequests here exhibit a greater breadth and quality than the holdings of some single-collector museums.
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