pluckiness

Mary Beth had won our hearts for her pluckiness.

"Her pluckiness is part of what makes her successful.

The artificiality of the little-girl pluckiness immediately makes the reminiscence suspect.

It was beautiful, the pluckiness of it, the impudence of it.

I saw resolve and determination and pluckiness.

Even in their glowing hatred for the Americans, the three Marshall's had to admire the pluckiness of the recovered secret plans.

The Mavericks showed their own pluckiness Saturday, erasing an 18-point first-half deficit.

Her surfeit of pluckiness could become off-putting, but Ms. Malone manages to hold it in check.

Looking to demonstrate some of her famed pluckiness, Ms. Chung tried to book the child and his parents as guests on Thursday night.

The Australian students who are the film's main characters bring the pluckiness of situation comedy stars to facing problems of less than earth-shaking magnitude.

The quality of pluckiness or "gameness" was still highly prized, and dogs that gave up during a fight were reviled as "curs."

Yet I missed Leslie's pluckiness and assertiveness, which also emerged on the witness stand, in a performance that emphasizes her childlike innocence.

Ms. Almanza-Smith attributes some of her pluckiness to her genes and her heritage.

Ms. Knightley is, once again, a vision of imperial British pluckiness, with an intriguing dash of romantic recklessness that surfaces toward the end.

I have to admire David Blanchflower's pluckiness, but I can't see any real reason to cheer and even less justification for partisan sneering.

In the process, JJ over-balances and falls towards the lava, but manages to self-rescue using a combination of gadgets and pluckiness.

To feminists, she could be seen as a symbol of pluckiness and courage, someone who eschewed convention and braved enormous physical hardships to accomplish her own objectives.

Sally's pluckiness is perhaps too blatantly delivered by Liz McCarthy, who fails to make a convincing transition in her Eliza Doolittle-like last entrance.

Musically, Prokofiev sought to express the "love of the young people," the "hatred of the representatives of the old world," pro-Bolshevik pluckiness and anti-Bolshevik cowardliness.

This little cousin had always appealed to his protective side, and what he had always loved best about her was her pluckiness, her willingness to fight back without regard for the consequences.

Her willingness to sing her way through the role of June Carter - very nicely, thank you kindly - in spite of personal reservations gives her the added lift of pluckiness.

Irritated by the way shots glanced off her racket, exasperated by the pluckiness of the unknown Maria Jose Martinez, the third-seeded Williams was in search of an escape hatch.

As for Brittny Kissinger, the mop-topped 8-year-old who donned Annie's red curls after Miss Pacitti was unceremoniously de-wigged: she brings a sweet pluckiness to the heroine's role.

"the power and the majesty of the launch, but also the competence and the professionalism - the sheer gall, the pluckiness of this team that pulled this program out of despair and made it fly."

Granted, the P88 has a battery life of only an hour and a half, compared to the iPad's ten hours, but Great Loong Brother Industrial Co. deserves points for pluckiness.