The phrase "a lively manner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a way of doing something that is energetic, spirited, or animated.
Example: "She presented her ideas in a lively manner, captivating the audience's attention throughout the meeting."
Alternatives: "an animated style" or "a spirited approach".
"So much wit, so much beauty, such a lively manner, and such exceeding quickness and penetration!" Lovelace writes.
If you like to have people over for dinner and have everyone talking in a lively manner, Rossini.
She was tall and long-limbed, and had a large mouth, full lips, a firm brown body, and a lively manner.
A brunette with a lively manner and a radiant smile, she is the vice-president of Estée Lauder Inc., and has worked for the company since 1959.
The comparisons continued in a lively manner on stage after each man made his presentation then took part in a discussion with the IHT's chief sports correspondent, Christopher Clarey.
Open to extensive debate, the discourse swung between diverse ends of the ideological spectrum in a lively manner, with lectures delivered by a host of expert Indian academics and policy-makers.
In a brusque, lively manner reminiscent of Jeremy Clarkson, he is asking questions the like of which I have never pondered in my pyjamas.
And Adam Smith (1759/1853, I, I, 1. 1) tells us that "pity or compassion [is] the emotion we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it, or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner" and these emotions "interest [man] in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it".
Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it, or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner.
The introduction begins: In no part of the animal creation are the wisdom, the goodness, and the bounty of Providence displayed in a more lively manner than in the structure, formation, and various endowments of the feathered tribes.
has two contrasting sub-sections, a and b, arranged in the form a-b-a-a-a-b-a-b to match the Welsh poetic measure of the same name, with the strings playing calmly in the "a" sections, and saxophone and keyboard (gradually joined by the other instruments) playing in a more lively manner in the "b" sections.
