perkiness

Some of the perkiness had gone out of her voice.

The current epidemic of perkiness isn't limited to the head.

A little less perkiness and a dash of melancholy would have been nice.

Is somebody out there inventing the drug to treat excessive perkiness?

But the number is performed with a leaden perkiness that weighs down the show.

But all this strenuous perkiness doesn't make for a joyful environment.

Ms. Ronstadt's perkiness seems at odds with the sophistication of what she has to say.

With China's real gross domestic product in double digits for 8 of the last 12 years, economic growth has needed anything but perkiness.

Ms. Daniele looks drained of her usual perkiness and patience.

For all the exercising, there is a haunted quality in her blue eyes, and the old perkiness is gone.

Bunny is a friendly, open, blonde young woman with an inexhaustible supply of perkiness.

She can summon a dreadful perkiness, but is mostly stunned, lethargic.

The dialogue has the wise-guy perkiness, if not always the wit, of the overeducated young.

Their enthusiasm suggested that perkiness may be genetic.

And through it all, they maintain a goofy 1950's-sitcom perkiness.

The evening alternated between mostly French perkiness and central European warmth.

They had the filling perkiness of youth.

How can she muster so much perkiness in the face of so much rudeness?

Or a visit to perkiness hell.

The five appealing performers pleasantly recall a pre-ironic time when perkiness was considered a virtue.

Victorian uplift hand in hand with postwar complexity and eternal perkiness.

It would have been helpful to find a little less comfort and a little more grit, but this film does cling to its perkiness.

Ms. Rubenstein's relentless perkiness makes her an ideal editor of a magazine for teenagers.

The place radiates an alarming perkiness.