Sentence examples for spirited figure from inspiring English sources

Sabrina emerges as the book's most spirited figure.

From our first introduction to her, as she tries to buy eggs to make her mother an omelet, Anaguil is a touching and spirited figure.

Mr. Brunious cut a dignified but spirited figure at Preservation Hall, the antique-jazz stronghold in the French Quarter: he could usually be found playing and singing traditional fare to the tourists who flocked there.

Similarly spirited figures abound in "Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933," which opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art on Oct. 16.

I read Markings, his diary to himself, and I just think he's a very sincere, public-spirited figure that grappled with a difficult time".

Raines, a more charismatic and high-spirited figure than Keller, though not his equal as a correspondent, appealed to Sulzberger's sense of mission.

He was chased away by the close-minded, mean-spirited figures who control the party and are damaging it badly.

These public-spirited figures came in the form of Li Sixian, who was one of several sojourning salt merchants in rural north China's Cang County credited in a local history with major charitable acts in a 50-year stretch of the 17th century.

"This is not some figure spirited out of the air".

Here indeed was a tough bargain for the reader, since Lily must be a very favorite heroine for quite a few of us; I know she's one of mine, and I had always envisioned her as a more spirited, bewitching figure than the strong, forthright, ultimately heartbreaking one Ms. Anderson becomes on screen.

Thankfully, though, members of the company will be at Town Hall on Friday night to share their spirited form of mockery; in addition to skits, they rewrite the words to well-known songs, lampooning various public figures or situations.