She possessed vivacity, grace, and charm as an actress of the comédienne type ; but she was not a natural tragédienne, and her attempt at the strongly dramatic part of Norma turned out to be an histrionic failure.

At this death at the age of ninety years, he still retained his gaiety and vivacity of mind.

His frankness, wit and vivacity caused scandal and won admiration at the same time.

" The king replied, at first, that he had not observed many people on the Carrousel ; and the queen rejoined with vivacity, that the king had forces to defend the château.

He shows no greater political insight than we should expect from his position ; but relates what he had seen and heard with a naïve vivacity which compels attention.

From her earliest years, she delighted everyone with her extraordinary beauty and vivacity.

Bizet finished the score during the summer, and was pleased with the outcome: " I have written a work that is all clarity and vivacity, full of colour and melody ".

" Its trademark overture, which Newmarch says " lifts us off our feet with its madcap vivacity ", was composed in a piano version before Smetana received the draft libretto.

During the 1748 Siege of Pondicherry Clive distinguished himself in successfully defending a trench against a French sortie: one witness of the action wrote " platoon, animated by his exhortation, fired again with new courage and great vivacity upon the enemy.

When Richard enters to bargain with Queen Elizabeth for her daughter's hand – a scene whose form echoes the same rhythmically quick dialogue as the Lady Anne scene in Act I – he has lost his vivacity and playfulness for communication ; it is obvious he is not the same man.

Hitchcock thought Wright was one of the most intelligent actors he had worked with, and through his direction brought out her vivacity, warmth, and youthful idealism — characteristics uncommon in Hitchcock's heroines.

While she certainly was not a beauty, her countenance was very expressive and showed extreme intelligence ; she was not tall, but had a slight, rather pretty figure ; her bright eyes sparkled with good humour and vivacity ; her mouth was large, but filled with white and even teeth ; and her hair was a beautiful light brown colour.

Andrea seems to have been influenced by his old preceptor's strictures, although his later subjects, for example, those from the legend of St. Christopher, combine his sculptural style with a greater sense of naturalism and vivacity.

He had spoken for some minutes with his usual vivacity, when his voice grew thick and he was seen to stagger.

Whilst his vivacity and single-minded search for truth caused friction with some people, he enjoyed a vast circle of friends in Europe, Asia and the United States who respected him for his personality as well as for his genius.

In 1868 the question of the disestablishment of the Irish Church came to the fore, and Magee threw himself into its defence with his usual energy and vivacity.

" As we Germans have learnt a little about conducting colonial policy, and as our wishes and plans turn with a certain vivacity towards New Guinea ... according to our opinion it might be possible to create out of the island a German Java, a great trade and plantation colony, which would form a stately foundation stone for a German colonial kingdom of the future.

James Boswell, in his Life of Johnson, recalled meeting " a young officer in the regimentals of the Scots royal, who talked with a vivacity, fluency and precision so uncommon, that he attracted particular attention.

None of these ventures achieved any success, but his numerous historical works are written with vivacity and interest, and, in their own style, are an important contribution to the history of England.

In its review, Films and filming said " Kim Thomson's Heloïse moves with delicate poise, a heroine worthy of Rossetti or Burne-Jones, with vivacity and intelligence.

He combined the vivacity and richness of Carpeaux, for " he was, technically, one of the most distinguished modellers of his time ", with the academic insistence on harmonious outlines and scholarly familiarity with the work of Giambologna and others of Duret.

Her poems, which were not collected until 1842, depict Cumbrian life and manners with truth and vivacity.

Her biographies of Edward Irving ( 1862 ) and her cousin Laurence Oliphant ( 1892 ), together with her life of Sheridan in the English Men of Letters series ( 1883 ), show vivacity and a sympathetic touch.

Consider too, with what force, diligence and vivacity he has rendered back all this which in Johnson's neighbourhood, his " open sense " had so eagerly and freely taken in.

" Q magazine describes the album as " a mixture of haunting bluesiness, dancing vivacity, and moments of Andalusian heat ..." and awards it four of five stars.

She was a ballerina noted for the brilliance, strength, and vivacity of her dancing.

But Suvorov's face was also a theater of vivacity, and his tough, stooping little frame was briskness embodied.

Rousseau, a writer of great force and vivacity, is totally destitute of taste in any sense of the word.

With his second feature film, Istanbul Under My Wings ( 1995 ), he also brought an unexpected vivacity to the Turkish Cinema whose film production had decreased dramatically and whose number of viewers had neared to nothing during the past 20 years.

It gives an expression greater point and vivacity ... than a judicious employment of this figure.

Friends who visited him found no trace of his former self ; in place of his former vivacity, energy and drive, they found him silent, withdrawn and lethargic.

:: His over-fondness for extravagant attitudes, frequently affected starts, convulsive twitchings, jerkings of the body, sprawling of the fingers, flapping the breast and pockets ; a set of mechanical motions in constant use ; the caricatures of gesture, suggested by pert vivacity ; his pantomimical manner of acting, every word in a sentence, his unnatural pauses in the middle of a sentence ; his forced conceits ; his wilful neglect of harmony, even where the round period of a well-expressed noble sentiment demands a graceful cadence in the delivery.

Originally the soul is possessed of or is an immense variety of powers, faculties or forces ( conceptions which Beneke, in opposition to Herbart, holds to be metaphysically justifiable ), differing from one another only in tenacity, vivacity, receptivity and grouping.

Both emphasised the vivacity of their model's character by contrasting them against dark flat backgrounds and throwing strong light from the near left hand side.

Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel ( born Alma Maria Schindler ; 31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964 ) was a Viennese-born socialite well known in her youth for her beauty and vivacity.

As a child his vivacity, cleverness and ready affection made him a universal favourite, but his harsh circumstances and lack of discipline, both helped develop self-reliance and fostered wayward tendencies.

In busts, he had a ready unconstrained air of life, a prompt vivacity of ordinary expression.

Ms. Opie was said to retain her vivacity to the last.

He wouldn't even dance with her at Gavin's party.

But the problem is one which gives us the measure of a man, rather than a group of men, whether a group of doctors, a group of party members assembled at a dinner to give their opinion, or the masses of the voters.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

Governor Alfred E. Smith was the official host at the children's party.

He laughed at a story that he planned to bolt the party if he was not nominated.

I intend to support the nominee of the party at St. Louis, whoever he may be ''.

Interestingly enough, the order transmitted to Morgan through Alexander Hamilton also informed him that `` A party of Indians will join the party to be sent from your command at Whitemarsh, and act with them ''.

Then I spoke at the ninetieth birthday party of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, who embarked on a fictional trilogy at eighty-nine and who, with The Crisis, had created a Negro intelligentsia that had never existed in America before him.

Blackman arrived a day or two early, and Lewis took him to a department store immediately and outfitted him, luggage and all, and then he took him to a party at the Woodwards that went on until four in the morning.

On the evening that they were to sail, Lewis himself gave a party, but he was too indisposed to appear at it.

We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.

We were at a party once and heard an idealistic young European call that awful charge glorious.

On the Christophers' lawn, little girls in white pinafores were playing grownups at a tea party.

At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep an eye on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi's party.

It was at that party that, finally overcoming my timidity, inspired by tales only half-understood and overheard among older boys, I asked Jessie to spend New Year's Eve with me.

a `` splash party '' at the new pool, which I had built in the hope of keeping Letch away from public beaches, when Letch and a certain Aquacutie stayed underwater together for the better part of an hour ; ;

a lovely Epiphany party at Errol Flynn's, on which sacred occasion Letch stole away with an unknown `` starlet '', leaving me `` high and dry '' to get home as best I could.

The Istiqlal was still firmly united in 1957, but the P.D.I. ( Parti Democratique de l'Independance ), the most important minor party at the time, objected to the Istiqlal's predominance in the civil service and influence in Radio Maroc.

`` There had been a threesome at the party in the suite's bedroom: Miss Harrington ( this was Diane's choice for a Roman name ), another woman who has figured in other very interesting events and one of your well-known American actors.

It happened at the St. Patrick's Day party, a big affair for a regiment which had gone into battle for over three-quarters of a century to the strains of an Irish march.

The lawyer didn't know him very well although he saw him occasionally at some dinner party -- Thayer, like himself, Madden reflected, was the extra man so prized by hostesses -- and found him easy enough to talk to.

The controversial remark was first made Sunday by Hughes at a Westfield Young Democratic Club cocktail party at the Scotch Plains Country Club.