'sprightliness' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that refers to liveliness, energy, and vigor. Example: The young girl's sprightliness was evident as she skipped and danced around the park.
"It's written in an astonishingly sprightly way - it has that New Yorker blend of sprightliness and deep seriousness," he said.
A sprightliness was certainly evident after the interval, as though a few reprimands were still echoing in the players' minds.
Her manifest desire to please — her labor-intensive, exhausting sprightliness — began to feel as discomfiting as an overattentive party host.
It will not be a gruelling study, for the sprightliness of Mrs. Post's style makes the text-book as fascinating as it is instructive.
The telling of the tale, to be fair, has patches of sprightliness and zip.
All his rebellion is there, but somehow the scene zings with more sprightliness than gloom, and there is still a twist to come.
Tyler is more than six feet tall, with a deep, resonant voice, but he moves with the sprightliness of a little kid, pausing for the occasional coughing fit brought on by asthma.
By contrast, Sherborne's puns at least have the advantage of sprightliness: describing Wells's wedding night, he writes, "The only maidenhead he knew about was the one on the road to Reading".
Directed by Geoffrey Enthoven from a script by Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem and Chris Craps, "The Over the Hill Band" suffers from bleak photography (the film was shot in the middle of winter) and relentless affirmations of codger sprightliness.
And the cast members – who include Joe McFadden and Tom Harries as two of Arnold's lovers and Sara Kestelman as his devoted but disapproving mother — often deliver their zingers with an exaggerated sprightliness that suggests what long-forgotten racy 1970s musicals like "I Love My Wife" must have been like.
Warmhearted and defiantly unsentimental, "Grandma, a Thousand Times" gains lightness from Teta's tart observations -- "She's old, isn't she?" she whispers to the camera after meeting Mr. Kaabour's glowing blond fianc -- and the director's stylistic sprightliness.
