(n.) Tenacity of life; vital force; natural vigor.
(n.) Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were occasional bursts of vivacity: the comment, when the Tory government economised on a booster station for the BBC World Service, that "Nation shall murmur unto nation"; shrewd opposition to entry into the ERM "at an unsustainable rate"; and an early warning to Nigel Lawson, in 1988, of the looming economic crisis.
(2) The vivacity of the visitors made a further goal likely and after Frank Lampard lost possession cheaply in the 42nd minute, Kewell was put through on the right and he shook off Ferdinand before rounding James to finish.
(3) This team has some very good players who are recapturing the traditional Algerian vivacity,” says Merzekane, who singles out Yacine Brahimi and Abdelmoumene Djabou.
(4) Algeria may have less defensive rigour than the South Americans but the present team is in the process of relaunching Algerian football using the skill and vivacity with which we have always tried to play.
(5) "We went out to attack them, to play with our style: Algerian vivacity," Merzekane says, who personified this style more than anyone, forcing Breitner on to the back foot with barnstorming breaks from deep.
(6) "The memory of poverty and of those tedious subway rides has faded with time, whereas what I recollect most vividly is the incredible vivacity with which we all confronted the dismal 1930s," Kristol recalled.
(7) Most savvy luxury managers are well aware of this which is why, quite deliberately, they regularly try to inject a bit of scandal and vivacity into the brand.
(8) Her voice is plump and pleasure-seeking, prodding and caressing a song until it yields more delights than its author had intended, bringing a spark of vivacity and a measure of cool to even the hokier material.
(9) I hope, too, that no company could be as cynical to see the death of manufacturing in the Rhondda Valley and the dissolution of a community as a matter of 'scandal and vivacity'.
(10) One could almost have felt that the vivacity of conversation, animated gestures and full-blooded life-force around the tables were out of place at the end of a solemn week that had seen the murder of staff and cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo , and others.
(11) He writes that these were "held very precious for the vivacity that Titian's colouring has lent to the figures, which seem truly real and alive".
(12) Villa should have anticipated that, too, but the hosts’ early vivacity seemed to take the visitors by surprise.
(13) Noah is apathetic, lacks vivacity, yet God, in choosing him, shows an irrationality we have seen before in Genesis (favouring Abel's offering over Cain's and setting up the first motive for murder, for example).
(14) It now, however, seems the group most likely to provide a welcome spark of vivacity.
(15) Algeria recovered their vivacity for the final group game against Chile and quickly swept into a 3-0 lead.