(n.) A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy.
Example Sentences:
(1) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
(2) Two days later, as she squatted down with alacrity at her home, she felt intense pain in the whole head as if struck with a hammer.
(3) Such has been the alacrity with which Spanish, French, Dutch and German consumers have taken to Primark that it has become a real disruptor on the fashion scene right across its territories.” Spain, Portugal and Ireland performed very strongly.
(4) The cases were remarkable for their color, texture, location, and presentation and suggest that a high index of suspicion, if not an alacrity to biopsy, is needed for the diagnosis of primary localized amyloid to be made.
(5) He agrees with alacrity when the Guardian photographer, Tom Jenkins, suggests we climb into the ring, where the light is at its softest.
(6) Southgate’s team struggled to deal with Croatia’s corners all night while the Group Five winners also counterattacked with great alacrity, the talented Ante Coric twice coming close with fine swerving shots.
(7) In the 26th minute the odds appeared to tilt against Inter when Sergio Busquets went down with exaggerated alacrity under Motta's challenge and looked up with a grin to see a red card being shown to the Brazilian midfielder.
(8) One that identifies barriers to integration and sets about dismantling them with alacrity.
(9) More alarmingly, there was also a tendency when England did get the ball to give it straight back with remarkable alacrity.
(10) Endocrinologic evaluation should be done with alacrity.
(11) Meldonium was added [to the Prohibited List] because of evidence of its use by athletes with the intention of enhancing performance.” Maria Sharapova's PR machine limits damage but raises uncomfortable questions | Bryan Armen Graham Read more Sharapova’s principal sponsors reacted with unusual alacrity.
(12) Don’t have five pints for lunch One of the things that makes me proudest to be British is the alacrity with which we will turn any event into an excuse to start drinking in the day.
(13) We missed our appointment in October – though possibly he had other things on his mind: since January 2007 he has been a non-executive member of the BBC's executive board , which has been ditching members with alacrity.
(14) Had the ballgirl in the FA Cup match in 1991 between second division Blackburn Rovers and Liverpool not returned the ball with such alacrity, the English champions might not have levelled the score .
(15) Jürgen Klopp prides himself on creating teams that press aggressively and cover every blade of grass, but the Liverpool manager was beaten at his own game here as Leicester worked tirelessly to close down their opponents, pinch possession and break with alacrity.
(16) This is a rare aspect of New Labour policy that the coalition has taken up with some alacrity.
(17) ‘Irresponsibility’ is too mild a term: traders did $3tn of damage The rigging of Libor , we now know, took place with alacrity across the City.
(18) The intravenous load was given to assess the alacrity of hormonal release after glycemic stimulus, and the oral glucose to determine how the speed of initial insulinogenesis modifies the disposition of ingested carbohydrate.
(19) Foot's column went from strength to strength, hoovering up awards and providing poor, sick and disadvantaged readers with a much needed voice, often ranged against a civil service bureaucracy Foot quarried with alacrity.
(20) No matter what reassurance his centre-forward yelled, the ball was coming into the danger area and Wise ought to have cleared it with alacrity.
Liveliness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.
(n.) An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.
(n.) Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.
Example Sentences:
(1) May 28, 2014 Other players have looked livelier tonight for sure, and he's taken one too many touches on occasion, but there was a glimpse of Altidore's value in his hold up play just now.
(2) Faced with a housing market in the south-east of England that is livelier than a Brazilian beach carnival, Mr Osborne has decided to grant new powers to the Bank of England to cap mortgages, by either limiting the amount buyers can borrow compared to their income or by restricting the proportion of a house price that can be paid with a mortgage.
(3) Some believe that officials are seeking to protect state broadcaster CCTV as it loses viewers to slicker, livelier provincial upstarts such as Hunan and Jiangsu Television.
(4) But physical liveliness, being able to tell jokes, that is not about sexuality.
(5) Yet sometimes a little decay here and there, some graffiti, flyers posted on walls and lampposts, can add liveliness to what would otherwise be a drab urban experience.
(6) "It's reminded me of when we went to the San Siro to play AC Milan except Joe [Jordan] didn't get nutted by [Gennaro] Gattuso," he said, recalling his Tottenham days and ensuring the post-match entertainment proved livelier than the fare on the pitch.
(7) As she describes her elastic band theory, her gestures get livelier.
(8) The disorder manifests itself as the disappearance of inner liveliness and as a diffuse dissociation of the entire representional world, which I have characterized as the disappearance of psychic transparence.
(9) The patients were less sleepy, livelier and less agitated in the isoflurane group in the first hour of recovery.
(10) Live bands play regularly, and if you're in family-friendly Les Houches rather than knees-up Chamonix, you'll be thankful for a bit of liveliness.
(11) "It's like Bob Dylan's never-ending tour," I suggest, though arguably Dylan might balk at sharing a bill with ventriloquist Roger De Courcey at Aylesbury rugby club, the scene of one of Farage's livelier recent outings.
(12) By linking themselves with American social scientists such as Richard Thaler and Robert Cialdini , the Tory high command has managed to cast itself as the new home of intellectual energy in British politics – so much livelier than that sleep-deprived lot over in Downing Street.
(13) These scales were called Depression (Anxiety), Hostility, Boredom, Liveliness, Well Being, Friendliness, Concentration and Startle.
(14) Results indicate that Factor C (high ego strength), Factor F (liveliness and enthusiasm), Factor H (venturesomeness), Factor Q1 (experimenting), Factor Q3 (high self-concept integration), Factor Q4 (tenseness), Factor QII (anxiety) are significantly related to one or more index of success (satisfaction, size of practice, income and professional advancement).
(15) Variations on the theme were explored to rather livelier effect in David Cronenberg's Tinseltown satire Maps to the Stars .
(16) For many, especially among the idealists of Momentum who held their own, much livelier conference this week, Labour has to be a social movement that works to change public attitudes on migration and much else – even if that takes a generation.
(17) The immediate task for the tandem, then, is to ensure a semblance of liveliness around parliamentary elections on 4 December.
(18) The New York section will advance the movement under Thomson's guidance away from the old Wall Street Journal, a crusty financial organ, towards a livelier general interest paper.
(19) Cardinale is only in the movie for a few scenes, but she still exudes the same liveliness and warmth she did in her youth.
(20) The child's liveliness, sociability, and poor appetite during infancy and childhood were positively related to the adult Type A irritability and hurried behavior clusters, as were the mother's liveliness, orderliness, and intelligence as rated by psychologists during the child's first 6 years.