(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.
Loveliness
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being lovely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Melanie Wilson and Abigail Conway return with their cinema experience Every Minute Always and Coney offers the experience of The Loveliness Principle.
(2) Its villages, many of which are miles from any road, look like they’ve been painted by a 19th century Romantic artist whose vision was blurred by the tears in his eyes at the sheer loveliness of the scene.
(3) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian The point of this area of Dorset is its peerless loveliness.
(4) I have lived in the middle of the carnival route for 12 years now and going by my wholly unscientific observation, the carnival is one of the lovelier forms of cultural cross-pollination.
(5) Yet something we were acutely aware of was the individuals that made up the company, and I don't think I've met a lovelier bunch of people.
(6) "I met George on and off down the years and you couldn't meet a lovelier person.
(7) There is only loveliness, along with a puppy in mittens, a palpable respect for tradition and a gentle, hand-drawn tale so imbued with the wonder of childhood it will charm baubles from trees and coax tears from coffee tables.
(8) We've also had Janet Street-Porter hiking up and down the land, wondering aloud, in a more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger, godmotherish sort of way, why anyone would want to uncouple themself from the loveliness of the union.
(9) Tavira is slightly the victim of its own elegant loveliness: eating places abound, as do visitors.
(10) Wayne Koestenbaum explains in his book The Queen’s Throat how he loves Maria Callas above all because she made mistakes and “seemed to value expressivity over loveliness”.
(11) This is the English countryside in all its May-time loveliness – which the viewer actually watches months later, as they contemplate damp September – to be admired through lovingly filmed heads of cow parsley nodding under the weight of spring raindrops, or via long shots of fields of buttercups.
(12) "He's still a cheeky little sod, but he's definitely just a nicer, lovelier little boy and we're not walking on eggshells with him any more," says Michelle.
(13) Nowhere is this lovelier than the Paseo del Río (River Walk), cobble and flagstone paths that extend for 21 blocks (almost three miles) along the San Antonio river.
(14) 01492 818198, spaceboutique.co.uk ENGLAND Pier Hotel, Harwich, Essex You couldn't get a better picture of marine loveliness than the white and blue facade of this quayside hotel, built in the 1850s.
(15) It is scrawly coloured pencil drawings, funny questions, tousled hair and the loveliness of a sleeping toddler.
(16) 4: A final celebration of nature The loveliness of the trees and grass, the sky's blue clouds, give reality to a mythological scene.
(17) Stars with style Brad Pitt Born Shawnee, Oklahoma, US Age 41 Career highlights Johnny Suede, Fight Club, Ocean's 11 Career lowlights Seven Years in Tibet, Meet Joe Black Why he matters 'He combines the matinee idol looks of Gary Cooper with the sex symbol loveliness of Marilyn Monroe' Frank Gehry Born Toronto, Canada Age 76 Career highlights Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; Walt Disney concert hall, Los Angeles Career lowlights Experience Music Project, Seattle Why he matters 'One of the most prominent contemporary American architects with his open, curvilinear, diverse and sometimes playful west coast style'.
(18) I hope I will do at some point.” This moment of reflection is all the lovelier for being entirely unsolicited.
(19) Mr Macron’s speech was full of French pride, with successive appeals to France’s scenic loveliness, great history and human achievements.
(20) We'd be completely astounded, but somehow the beauty of the moment would surpass even the loveliness of where we were and what we were doing."