jauntiness in a sentence
Examples
- But the tone of both Studney's score and Kevin Murphy's lyrics meanders hazily, from swing jauntiness and " Grease "-style doo-wop to film noir jazz and flavorless mock ballads.
- In 1984's " Carolyn, " with its patchwork display of rainbow colors framing a lovingly scripted signature of his mother's name, Hancock has created a work full of Skittles-tinted jauntiness.
- No one expected that person to be Redwood, but it was he who stepped before the cameras with a fresh jauntiness and predicted that he would be the right's representative in the second round next Tuesday against Clarke.
- David Davis, publisher of Automobile magazine, remembers the 1957 Thunderbird as " a boulevard cruiser with all the jauntiness and wonderful appearance of an open two-seater, but that drove just like your family Ford ."
- The president, who by then had spent 30 minutes with the pope, regained some of his jauntiness, replying " it's a young family, " and pointing to his wife, Laura, added, " a young wife ."
- The 1991 edition was awarded three stars out of five in Q : " Performances are faster than the studio originals and suffer for it; what they gain in live jauntiness-not exactly a quality they were crying out for-they lose in power and intensity ."
- It destroys everything _ adults and children, " said Ngalimowi, whose jauntiness defies her constant battles with an alcoholic father, the lingering trauma of a violent mugging, debilitating bouts of tuberculosis and the cancer that disfigured one eye _ one of the many side-effects of AIDS.
- With a jauntiness that feels all too raw, Adele nails the balance between passive aggression towards an undeserving ex ( Send my love to your new lover / Treat her better ) and unapologetic truth-telling ( I m giving you up / I m forgiving it all / You set me free ) yet again .
- McCourt says of two visits to the set in Dublin, and his first look at the replicated row house where his family lived with no indoor plumbing, a ground floor covered in water and sewage half the year, and a slightly less cold and clammy second floor _ they called it Italy, and shared infested mattresses _ with a jauntiness that didn't quite blot out the poverty and the shame they felt at being poor.
- On the one hand, this is language soaring up above the earth, teasing its way beyond stolid paraphrase, but on the other hand it is always connected to " the groan of the unfinished garden " the last phrase of'Man and Wife .'The intricate, rich but discordant music has a mocking jauntiness hard to forget, self-aware and self-critical, and in spite of itself having a jaunty if wincing good time, as in'The Crooner':'It's maddening, / This measly rigmarole he's come to, this voice, his crazy quilt . / / Unadvised, pleased with the take-home pay of it all, teetotalling, / He glimmers like a forgotten mouth, aims for the deep end of all that's muddy and dim, / And mocks the majesty of ringers.