Sentence examples for in plucky from inspiring English sources
But she's met her match in plucky June.
The pride the country does take tends to be in plucky defeat (the unofficial anthem of England's football team is the theme tune from "The Great Escape"), a sort of fatalistic stoicism that risks becoming self-fulfilling.
It is somewhat understandable: Their careers are brief, and moonlighting in plucky start-up outfits offers a chance to alleviate the workplace malaise that often takes hold at major repertory companies.
The combination of frYars' gothic electronica and a vocal-style that's part-Carry On Up The Khyber and part Edgar Allan Poe is both peculiar and infectious, particularly in plucky, staccato title track The Ides.
Essentially a more grown-up, better conceived version of the Brangelina movie dud Mr & Mrs Smith, The Expats gives us an intriguing heroine in plucky Kate but sabotages itself by cross-cutting between two timeframes in a way that would work fine on screen but in a novel requires more signposting than Pavone gives us.
In PluckyWorld, the coalition had been an unmitigated triumph.
"Atlantis," which opens today at the Ziegfeld, is also reminiscent of Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and Edgar Rice Burroughs's Pellucidar stories, in which plucky heroes in tight-fitting white shirts and jodhpurs stalked the mysteries that went unnoticed by the civilized world.
Pink-eared Piglet (John Fiedler), in his trademark scarf, speaks in a plucky little-boy squeak.
As in a lot of films in which plucky, determined women form an alliance, the bonds of sisterhood eventually trump internal rivalries and old grudges.
PARIS — Barricaded in the last free village in Gaul, plucky little Asterix is resisting the massed armies of austerity that have swept across Europe, threatening to snuff out economic recovery.
Foxcatcher is a superb, satiric antithesis of a Hollywood underdog sports movie, in which plucky David always beats Goliath and somehow, even in the euphoria of triumph, retains the little guy's glowing moral superiority.
