"spirited affair" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe any lively event or exchange. Example sentence: The two teams put on a spirited affair during the championship match, with neither side willing to concede.
Even lunch, a spirited affair starting with pupils loudly reciting the poem If, includes exhortations from the deputy head about pupils completing the homework over Christmas.
"Greater New York," at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, the newly annexed Queens outpost of the Museum of Modern Art, is a spirited affair that rounds up enough youngish artists (146 in all) to start a day camp.
It was a far more spirited affair than his outing at Symbiosis in Northern California only days beforehand.
The first game of the Brazil World Cup won't take place until June 12, when the host country plays Croatia in what will doubtless be a spirited affair.
Their live shows are spirited affairs, with plenty of pogoing and crowd provocation – you'll want something as protein and potassium-packed as this curry to power you through.
The ceremony was a festive, big-spirited affair under the soaring golden ceiling of the music hall.
Most of this is balanced with chipper arrangements, and as a result Allo Darlin' shows can be high-spirited affairs.
They were colourful, free-spirited affairs; save once, when George Osborne showed up.The chancellor of the exchequer was accompanying David Cameron on one of his first foreign trips as prime minister.
Mr. Pizzarelli's new show is a high-spirited family affair in which the guitarist and crooner is joined by his wife (the Broadway singer Jessica Molaskey) and father (the guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli) in addition to the other members of his regular trio (his brother Martin Pizzarelli on bass and Ray Kennedy on piano).
"Sacco and Vanzetti," Bruce Watson's spirited history of the affair, does a great service in rescuing fact from the haze of legend and disentangling Sacco and Vanzetti from the symbols they all too quickly became.
But spirited discussions of public affairs obscured the sadness.
