Sentence examples for least spirited from inspiring English sources

I am talking of course, about the latest adaptation of Mansfield Park, the novel that contains Austen's least spirited, most insufferably moralistic heroine.

The two queens who produced the poorest performances and looks that week would "lip sync for their lives" – mime to a popular song – and the least spirited of the two would go home.

On Tuesday, at least, "spirited" appeared to mean having the Republican National Committee throw at Mr. Edwards 23 pages of research covering everything from his votes on gun control legislation to late payment of property taxes on his Georgetown home.

Not the least spirited of the many interventions on either side has come from his lawyer, Henri Leclerc, who remarked that his client could not have known if a particular young woman to whom he had been introduced was a prostitute as she was not wearing any clothes.

The Gretzky era at the Garden featured some of the worst and least-spirited teams in franchise history and so will the Sather era.

Carefully choosing excerpts to support my case (yes, the Stone Roses did it pretty well) I give you Northside's Take Five (although the setting of Boston's More Than a Feeling to a baggy beat is at least more spirited than I remember).

It was, on the contrary, surprisingly gentle as showpieces go, with two central slow movements — including, of all things, a scherzo, traditionally a fast or at least high-spirited movement — surrounded by brisk but hardly explosive ones.

For the first time in his 15-year stewardship of the theater Mr. Sanford felt the need to calm ruffled feathers or at least make a spirited case for the theater's right to ruffle them now and then.

This was crucial watching, not least for the spirited number of not-in-my-name, you ain't no Muslim, bruv fellow Islamists who challenged the pair at every turn, on every windswept corner of London's Edgware Road, genuinely angry at what they saw as an open recruiting campaign for Isis.

According to at least one game developer Touch Arcade spoke with, their game was removed because it contained "images of the Confederate flag used in offensive and mean-spirited ways".

Movie makers tilt Democratic, at least publicly, as the spirited celebrity support for President Obama has made clear.