Sentence examples for plucky in from inspiring English sources

But Brighton bravely battles on, as plucky in adversity as Blackpool or Bridlington.

He went from punk to plucky in 60 hard-fought minutes.

The typical Syrian humour, plucky in the face of absurdity, was quick to make fun of the visit to Hama and also to play upon the conspiracy theories of the Syrian regime.

I've got a roof over my head, food in my belly, four amazing kids, the love of my life, what more could a girl ask for?" I applaud her for being plucky in the face of adversity but her continual ignorance of even basic money management is not something to be applauded.

Equally plucky in its portrait of a sporting underdog, Dexter Fletcher's Eddie the Eagle, about determined but fundamentally ungifted British ski jumper Eddie Edwards, finds a lot to cheer about in its protagonist's defeat; it's a distinctly uncool celebration of giving life your best shot, and all the more endearing for that.

Countless examples of this were imbedded in their art, poetry and writings, such as Walt Whitman's references to "great poets" in his Leaves of Grass, and E. M. Forster's talk of an "aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky" in his anti-war pamphlet What I Believe.

"Atlantis," which opens today at the Ziegfeld, is also reminiscent of Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and Edgar Rice Burroughs's Pellucidar stories, in which plucky heroes in tight-fitting white shirts and jodhpurs stalked the mysteries that went unnoticed by the civilized world.

Twenty months later, that plucky exercise in democracy has faded in the face of an ascendant China.

Any show which features plucky amateurs in a spooky cave in full evening wear ducking every time a bat flies past is all right by me.

As Oliver, William Miller, who was 11 when the show was broadcast in Britain, is likably plucky but, in keeping with this listless production, a bit opaque.

(Showtime; Blu-ray $64.99, DVD $54.99; not rated) JANE EYRE Mia Wasikowska, of Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," plays the plucky governess in Cary Fukunaga's adaptation of the Charlotte Brontë novel; Michael Fassbender is her Rochester.