liveliness

So, like your recent post -- oh, gloom doom, TV and newspaper Big Name Pundit celebrities are saying the Health Care Reform liveliness is dead, pass it on -- I say forget listening to 'celebrity' (so much).

He was for real (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

The main liveliness in this production came from the guy behind us, who chose the most tender moments to try to join the trombone section with nose-blowings of amazing volume, force, and musicality.

sydneypadua.com » Blog Archive » Opera Boring/Not Boring 2007

Shall I call the liveliness of this day a gale of the Spirit, or was all natural?

The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne Andrew A. Bonar 1851

Tristram Shandy, for instance, is in multifarious ways a marvellous book, but it is written in a tone of such constant high-pitched zaniness, such deliberate "liveliness", that one finds oneself screaming at it to calm down a bit.

Comedy in Literature 2010

For Mr. Nádas, a Budapest native who now lives in a remote village near the Austrian border, the decades since 1989 have restored a "liveliness" to Budapest that Communism had managed to erase.

Across Eastern Europe, Remembering the Curtain's Fall 2009

The kind of liveliness, however, caused by the presence of seven or eight hundred students, is not always of the most agreeable character.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

October "liveliness" was increasing all round, and mutual bombardments were growing more intense.

With the British Army in The Holy Land

I can find nothing sharp (or susceptible of schoolmaster's codification) in the different degrees of 'liveliness' in hypotheses concerning the universe, or distinguish a priori between legitimate and illegitimate cravings.

Familiar Letters of William James II 1920

All the folk round the fires and outside of them moved about quickly and with the same kind of liveliness which might animate a camp of more natural people at the rising of the sun.

She and Allan Henry Rider Haggard 1890

The 'liveliness' of such rapid measures is thus a resultant of several factors.

Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Various 1889