Sentence examples for less vivacious from inspiring English sources

This tractionless surface let his inked brushes slide and glide around calligraphically, producing images of natural emanations more abstract than Korin's but no less vivacious and threatening.

On Friday night Galina Stepanenko was impressively solid as Kitri if less vivacious with Sergei Filin, an inconsistent but passionate classical dancer.

No less vivacious, the dry 2009 Festival chardonnay (a good buy at $14.99) offers hints of lemon-lime flavor and a refreshing citric tartness, which can probably be traced to the 20 percent sauvignon blanc blended in.

As early as 1783, as Sean M. Quinlan notes, in "The Great Nation in Decline," the French began to churn out tracts like one which laments that "a flagging, weak and less vivacious generation has replaced, without succeeding, that brilliant [Frankish] race, those men of combat and hunting, whose bodies were more robust, cleaner and of greater height than those of today's civilized peoples".

That idea of the home as an oppressive rather than welcoming place forms a common thread through all these novels, most chillingly in Essbaum's Hausfrau, in which the depressed Anna drifts through her affluent Swiss life like a less vivacious Emma Bovary, destroying her life one small misstep at a time.

Therefore, as \(S_n\) falls over time, the representations gradually "rise", becoming more and more perspicuous and clear, though less vivacious than in a solitary state (cf. Felsch 1904: 195; Weiss 1928: 83).

Hume accounts for memory by appealing to an idea that is qualitatively similar to, but less forceful and vivacious than a previous idea.

Yet his work could hardly be described as original, for it borrows from Andy Warhol in its use of static, stylized compositions, and from David Hockney, perhaps less obviously, in its vivacious, sometimes lurid palette.

This taut, vivacious exhibition is less about the man himself than about how 30 contemporary artists, most of them African or African-American, respond to his blazing, goading lodestar presence.

His everyday home life changed no less dramatically when his extraordinarily vivacious teenage niece, Catherine Barton, the daughter of his half-sister Hannah, moved in with him shortly after he moved to London, staying until she married John Conduitt in 1717, and after that remaining in close contact.

She was no less taken with Franklin, and their vivacious correspondence consisted of a determined campaign on his part to bed her and her equally stalwart resistance, based on the customs of the day and what was proper between a widower and a married woman.