Sentence examples for jauntiness from inspiring English sources

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jauntiness

noun

The quality of being jaunty.

  • "That jauntiness of air I was once master of." - Joseph Addison

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Delightfully modern, its liberating jauntiness helped it become a kind of anthem for the end of Spanish fascism.

The finance minister of Liberal-led Quebec credits low oil prices with helping him balance the province's budget (while Alberta faces a C$7 billion, or $5.6 billion, revenue drop).This jauntiness, less than a year away from the next general election, is unlikely to please the petroleum-spattered prime minister.

Of late, disarray in the financial markets has robbed American bankers of this traditional jauntiness.

Ms Merkel even seems to dislike Mr Sarkozy's physical jauntiness towards her.

Undertones of loneliness and reluctant reserve ironise Reid's jauntiness.

People do unspeakable things to each other or die horribly in his novels – sci-fi or not – but through them all runs a dry wit and jauntiness.

Back in 1987, there was still something rather comical and preposterous about Douglas's finance villain; now, after the recent credit crunch meltdown, the whole subject has lost a bit of its jauntiness.

The driver accepted this humiliating accident with a certain jauntiness.

He grinned and waved, already recovering a measure of what I took to be a habitual jauntiness.

There's a certain jauntiness there; if I had to analyze the style, I'd say it feels a little more like a London Review of Books personal.

He's matched by Cyril Cusack (as Leamas's boss, Control), who gives meaning to every intake of air and sip of tea; by Oskar Werner, who brings refreshing jauntiness to the role of an East German Jewish intelligence officer; and by Bloom, who exudes both naïveté and sensuality as Leamas's Communist lover.

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