Sentence examples similar to a zippy character from inspiring English sources

Hill Street Blues had a sprawling universe of engaging yet flawed characters, a zippy pace and layers of overlapping, scripted dialogue, shot in a documentary style.

It's got a zippy array of colorful characters, including an effete criminal kingpin (Walter Pidgeon) who plays classical piano and plots with crude co-conspirators in the cushy calm of an art museum ("Rubens — is that the same guy that's got the restaurant in Broadway?"); his unlettered underling, Cortig ("There was only one eyewitness and the name is withheld".

Carole remains more a politically correct wish fulfillment than a flesh-and-blood character: always ready with a zippy comeback or some wise self-analysis, and oddly undaunted by her position as the first black girl at the Goode School.

Most of the characters in "Next Fall" -- which portrays a gay couple wrestling with issues big enough to be called cosmic -- are as quick with a quip as the denizens of a zippy sitcom.

A hearty vegetarian salad with a zippy za'atar vinaigrette.

He begins to unpack, improvising a zippy unpacking song.

A Davis figured in a "Zippy the Pinhead" comic strip.

It sounds like an Amy Winehouse sketch, with a zippy horn-led arrangement.

It's basically a zippy vinaigrette with shallots, capers and a mixture of herbs, mostly parsley.

Crab cakes were sweet, almost buttery, with a zippy cucumber-jicama slaw.

Sometime in the early aughts, contemporary-music concerts in New York took on a zippy new energy.