Sentence examples for plucky character from inspiring English sources

What jumps out during the show is a plucky character who acknowledges the challenges of his life while focusing on the rewards.

For a vocal group of Focus enthusiasts in the United States who watched impotently as Ford Europe devised one wicked Focus hatchback after another while the American division killed the SVT model and sapped the Focus of its plucky character, the ST represents something like validation.

Ms. Thornton-Lucas, 64, is the Dolly Levi of Bushwick, a one-woman whirlwind not unlike the plucky character from the 1964 Broadway musical "Hello, Dolly!" She is a community fixture; the founder and director of the Bushwick Community Council Services Soup Kitchen and Pantry; a former caterer, cook and hospital dietary aide; and an unofficial neighborhood historian.

Because the D.A. has prosecuted very few protesters on felony charges (three of whom were eventually allowed to plead guilty to misdemeanors) ), and because McMillan is the last, and is an appealing and plucky character, her case became the fulcrum of post-Occupy attention.

NEWSIES Though the 1992 Disney film about a New York City newsboys strike in 1899 was disliked by critics, those plucky characters finally got their own stage musical.

It treats the vehicles like plucky characters, and when the Spirit eventually reached one of its targets -- a triangular football-size rock -- NASA gave the rock a name, Adirondack, and photographed it from every point of view: at a distance, up close, from the side, from above.

ANNIE It's not such a hard knock life for Lilla Crawford, the 11-year-old who was chosen from thousands to portray the plucky title character in this Tony Award-winning 1977 musical about a rags-to-riches orphan.

His embittered but plucky title character, who makes her way from East Berlin to Kansas and subsequently across America on a no-budget rock tour of tacky seafood restaurants, often suggests Mr. Bowie as a chilly German dominatrix.

Waad Mohammed, 12, stars as the plucky title character in "Wadjda," by Saudi director Haifaa Mansour.

In an audacious prologue Adrian introduces a fascinating character, plucky young Tomo Woodhull, so plucky and so young, indeed, that the unsuspecting reader expects him to become the protagonist of the book.

The plucky upstart role no longer seems to fit.