Sentence examples for plucky to from inspiring English sources

But it was plucky to have thrown herself at life so hard.

It's plucky to cram all this in and at the same time try to establish the intellectual reach of Mary's father, William Godwin, the Enlightenment philosopher.

That process helped him transform the mandolinist Avi Avital's request for a work for mandolin and harpsichord ("That sounded too plucky to me," Mr. Dorman said) into a high-energy Mandolin Concerto that was nominated for a Grammy Award this year.

That has nothing at all to do with money, and it's a load of bollocks.' Oliver sounds heartfelt when he talks about all this, and it is moderately plucky to speak of about plasma screens and dole money in the same breath as the need for what he calls his 'do-gooding'.

The emotional responses in most depictions of Women in Sexual Peril range from plucky to destroyed.

Since COMCAST is by far the largest ISP, if "someone" wanted to send a signal to our plucky truth-to-power-speaking site by making it "disappear" as viewed from a single internet service provider, COMCAST would be the one to pick to send the clearest message -- horse-head-like.

As the mayor's bus drew to a halt, a pupil at the school, who was supposed to symbolise plucky dedication to learning in a tough place, scrawled a graffito on the side.

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.

To pull himself beyond plucky aspirant to serious contender, Shorten still needs what the back-room types would call a "defining new positive" for the campaign – the time when voters are watching.

In any case, women are striking up plucky repartees to solicit support, deflect embarrassment or to take the sting out of an experience that can be frightening, uncomfortable and overwhelming.

Just ask that plucky individual to do it by himself, it tends to work.