(1) The movie, adapted from Mandela's autobiography, shows Madikizela-Mandela as a feisty young woman who falls in love with the struggle activist, only to be left to raise their children alone when he is arrested and jailed.
(2) I have met brave, feisty writers, publishers and translators here in Turkey who will take on this challenge and not be intimidated, but how many others will decide that this is not a risk that they want or are able to take?"
(3) She isn't the first wannabe pop girl with intimations of "edge" and "darkness" in her songs to emerge this year , although she might be the last (hello, it's November), but the question is: does she bring anything new to the feisty, lusty-voiced electro-girl genre?
(4) But axing Hazel Blears, the feisty communities secretary, would be more difficult.
(5) They weren’t exactly fashionable, but they were feisty, they were sexy – and I think it related to the fabric of the city.
(6) In fact, for feisty, you have drink one of those pints with a submerged shot glass.
(7) They say you cannot please everyone, but referee Michael Oliver succeeded in pleasing neither Roberto Martínez nor Garry Monk in this feisty encounter which belied the mid-table comfort Everton and Swansea currently enjoy.
(8) Goodness knows how spiky things might have turned had Cheick Tioté, Pardew’s feisty Ivorian midfield enforcer, not been injured.
(9) A few minutes around the corner is ORSO , a 2014 coffee “laboratory” serving feisty arabica and robusta from around the globe.
(10) And it was not long before she and feisty Hefina in a tour de force performance became spokeswomen for their community.
(11) When I'd met Zaria, just before her operation, I was struck by the energy of this funny, feisty, beautiful young medical student with a tattoo and bundles of raven hair.
(12) In a wide-ranging interview in Broadcasting House the day after the review was announced, a feisty director general admits that the recommendations, to be delivered early next year, are likely to lead to "narrower services".
(13) It described Gordon as feisty and outspoken but often "highly dependent upon the men in her life".
(14) As the train clatters downtown, I allow myself to feel feisty, and just a little bit fond.
(15) A Forsa survey shows that the SPD has gained three points from a week earlier to 29% after the selection of the feisty, plain-speaking 65-year-old.
(16) A feisty and inspiring young head was resolutely tackling the school's problems to give his pupils a better chance.
(17) McCain cracked jokes and gave a feisty performance as he endorsed Romney.
(18) Just think of the hoardings: feisty women with attitude, sporting magnificent fingernails and vaguely dressed as St Mary Magdalene, are seen tearing at Pontius Pilate’s face – someone like Nigel Havers, looking saucy.” Christ’s Jerusalem Monopoly “My kids have a Star Wars one,” the permanent secretary tells a minister irritably.
(19) And there was this feisty meeting with Brazil in 1970.
(20) He also writes a feisty blog for the Financial Times - a recent example was headed "Confessions of a crass Keynesian".
Spunky
Definition:
(superl.) Full of spunk; quick; spirited.
Example Sentences:
(1) And it would be nothing short of condescending for screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher to have concocted some fictional spunky-girl nerd character or a wise female comp sci professor in an attempt to make their film more female-friendly.
(2) Gary Younge My favourite moment was the spunky, rousing and quite eccentric contribution by the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Emanuel Cleaver.
(3) While Taylor's looks and spunky performances still gathered praise in films such as John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), Burton, who was now drinking heavily, became an object of derision.
(4) She had an authority, a natural eccentricity and the spunky good sense of a magnificent aunt.
(5) It’s also sure to lure in a whole new generation through the introduction of new spunky heroes and foes, and thrilling non-stop action.
(6) Brave In Brave, what looks like a CGI rendering of Janet from The X Factor progresses to the last stage of the competition, where she has to be as spunky as the boys; if she wins, she'll be allowed to rule the kingdom of (judging by the accents it contains) Ireland, Scotland or a Walkabout pub.