vivacities
- plural of vivacity.
Example Sentences
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Pardon me certain vivacities of style, which I had not time to correct, and plunge boldly into the heart of the book.
From The Roman Question by About, Edmond
Without some sharpness of interest I shouldn't now have the memories; but these stick to me somehow with none of the hard glue of recovered "spirits," recovered vivacities, assurances, successes.
From A Small Boy and Others by James, Henry
Karl, beaming at his companions in his old way, but rattling off French vivacities without the faintest trace of accent.
From Stories in Light and Shadow by Harte, Bret
These superficial vivacities were the slighter play of a self-consciousness which in its deeper recesses was steadily gathering power, richness, and assurance.
From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)
Life manifests in these neurotics in the form of vivacities merely; not as vitalities.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella