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She tried to grin feistily, but ended up grimacing instead.

But its young news executives and reporters are feistily independent of any state control or censorship.

But in true Brooklyn fashion, many of them feistily insist that they know their customers as no one else does.

Captain, you don't have any control over me," countered Cabot feistily. "

On a good day, Guyville was a place where women feistily, happily flaunted their sexuality.

But before he left, Fang feistily told the man what he thought of his opinion, triggering a shouting match.

This is, among other advantages, a way to appear both feistily "Trumanesque" and becomingly "moderate" at the same time.

Bravo to Mr. Taruskin for raising the issues so feistily in the first place.

Mr. Barak's feistily delivered speech was not aimed primarily at Palestinians, however.

Navratilova feistily rejected that idea, saying she had earned her privileges, and she was still feeling feisty on Monday.

One of the few television movies to cope with the homeless featured a feistily cute Lucille Ball as a bag lady.

Katherine, for her part, must confront her own embittered mother, played feistily by Sylvia Sidney.

During the televised coverage, the former actress feistily defended herself against charges of treason by claiming that everything she did had Mao's approval.

"Mahagonny" is a feistily anti-Wagnerian proletarian allegory.

Tennison still spars feistily with her staff, but Ms. Mirren is forced to spend too much time looking intensely thoughtful.

His mother, the glamorous and feistily modernising Sheikha Moza, is the favourite of his father's three wives.

One thing the Mafia must surely have realised by now: Petra Reski, feistily articulate in three languages, doesn’t give up easily.

Catalonia, the feistily independent northeastern corner of Spain, has long boasted a tradition of street theater, carnival celebrations and collective creation.

His work was criticized both by neo-Kantians and by more mainstream, rationalist logicians, to whom Becker feistily replied.

Paul's mother, Lady Ursula (Wendy Hiller), is a feistily arrogant woman who has little use for either Paul or his wife.

Mr Tsvangirai was bullish, feistily defending his shotgun wedding to Mr Mugabe.

Feistily revived elsewhere over time, the play in Bijan Sheibani’s production is notable mainly for answering a question that had been doing the London theater rounds.

But Clare Foster is extraordinarily natural and charming as Polly: feistily tomboyish then sweetly attractive and elegantly twirling.

This account, feistily directed by John Coles ("Signs of Life," "Rising Son"), tells something of the private man.