Sentence examples for plucky enough to from inspiring English sources

He had been plucky enough to be traveling All by Himself.

The rent was $3,000, a figure sweetened by a $12,000 grant awarded by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to people plucky enough to settle in that part of the city after Sept. 11.

De Wolfe had never before set foot in a courtroom, but cross-examination presented no terrors for a woman who, at the age of fifty-six, was plucky enough to perform headstands in public.

Movies cannot put Shakespeare on a pedestal or a stage, but they are sometimes plucky enough to put him on hold; they plunge him into the dark, and a few of them haul something rich and strange back into the light.

But the way they play is taut and muscular and plucky enough to take on the cold night, and the regulars sipping pints of Pedigree in the snug next door, and the vague scent of hot food drifting through from the dining room.

Pumpkin's satellite kits include an aluminum frame, a motherboard, software, memory and processors all plucky enough to resist the vibrations, vacuum and temperature fluctuations of space.

When the band are the Futureheads - plucky enough, but not especially renowned for their live skills - it smells of hyperbole.

What I love about those plucky Britons is that they were brave enough to admit it.

His beloved, a plucky girl reporter who was smart and sassy enough to engage female fans and foxy enough to endear her to boys, comics' core audience.

King's Speech: plucky, small-scale British outsider, with a ruthless eye for sentiment but smart enough to offset it with some wry, self-deprecating wit.

And in its structure and dialogue it is neither quite daring enough to succeed as a bold experiment nor conventional enough to be a plucky little crowd pleaser.