sportiveness

But these various indications of sportiveness were at once forgotten when one inspected his features.

His sportiveness covered an admiration for the flier that fell only a little short of awe.

Krishna's sportiveness is increased and philosophical portions are omitted.

Marvin's contemporary sportiveness versus Scott's terse misanthropy is the real undercurrent here.

But whole volumes could be written on the playing of cats, since the varieties and aesthetic aspects of such sportiveness are infinite.

Of all the life that invaded the western plains, it was the hoxney that, in its sportiveness, most embodied the new spirit.

Reith decided that she interpreted the not-too-explicit attitudes as representations of sheer sportiveness, or simple "boisterous conduct."

If I catch you in sportiveness, I shall either not see it, or congratulate you, as may be."

It is said by Richard Mant that some sportiveness of Fox was the occasion of Newcome's left arm being crushed in a door, necessitating its amputation.

The sportiveness of the grotesque category can be seen in the notion of the preternatural category of the lusus naturae, in natural history writings and in cabinets of curiosities.

Perhaps the best illustration of this is his essay called "The Genealogy of Dictionaries," in which with seeming sportiveness he wickedly skewers various dictionary makers for borrowing material from their rival's products.

"At this time a slight sleep relieved me from the pain of reflection, which was disturbed by the approach of a beautiful child, who came running into the recess I had chosen, with all the sportiveness of infancy.

In Mr. Fallows's entry for the 15th-century Franco-Flemish composer Gilles de Bins Dit Binchois, that full name is spelled out in the initial letters of succeeding paragraphs in a bit of Renaissance-style sportiveness.

For men say that the young of all creatures cannot be quiet in their bodies or in their voices; they are always wanting to move and cry out; some leaping and skipping, and overflowing with sportiveness and delight at something, others uttering all sorts of cries.

In the mere exercise of the fancy, however, and the sportiveness of a growing mind, there might be little more than was observable in other children of bright faculties; except as Pearl, in the dearth of human playmates, was thrown more upon the visionary throng which she created.

And it shows, this verbal sportiveness of Mr. Gelbart's, not only in the prose of his book - "To make a long story short he made a short story long," he writes of the comedian Danny Thomas - but also in the trajectory of his career.

When they chance to see that even the lustre of their eyes, and the flippant sportiveness of refined coquetry will not always secure them attention, during a whole evening, should a woman of a more cultivated understanding endeavour to give a rational turn to the conversation, the common source of consolation is, that such women seldom get husbands.