Sentence examples for rather spirited from inspiring English sources

Odd Job was engaged in a rather spirited discussion with a police officer who had apparently written one of the $100-plus parking tickets.

Asked whether that included the boss, she said, "Why discriminate against him?" US feminist Betty Friedan initially dismissed Cosmo as "immature teenagelevel sexual fantasy", but later conceded that Brown "in her editorship, has been a rather spirited and gutsy example in the revolution of women".

Keep in mind that we have seen rather spirited share price declines at several companies and a spate of recent IPOs.

The video for Mayer's third single off his most recent album, "Paradise Valley," premiered on Tuesday's "Good Morning America" program and the clip features the real-life couple looking deep into each other's eyes... when they aren't trying to hold on for dear life to a rather spirited bull.

His speech was not a call for a new spirit of bipartisanship, as Mr. Obama had pledged in 2004, but rather a spirited assault on the Republican philosophies offered up by Mr. Romney and Representative Paul D. Ryan, his running mate.

Rather than "Spirited Away," the movie could better be considered Mr. Miyazaki's "Through the Looking Glass".

One common factor in these stories is that all the children involved were minorities, a population more likely to attend schools with fewer rigorous academic courses and more likely to be treated as problems rather than spirited prodigies.

You see I have always been a rather dull-spirited winch.

Cupcake is a term of endearment, but it can also be a rather mean-spirited word.

Throughout the years, the jealous and rather mean-spirited Olivier gave Gielgud, at best, grudging praise, usually, as Croall says, with a sting in its tail.

It first started with ESPN anchor and wannabe funnyman Craig Kilborne in 1996 with a modus operandi of man-on-the-street interviews (some of them rather mean-spirited) and other entertainment news, rather than political satire.