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• Brunhild, a mischievous, strong-minded goldfish (the voice of Noah Cyrus, Miley's younger sister), is determined to become a little girl when she's rescued from a jar and befriended by Sosuke (the voice of Frankie Jonas, the Jonas Brothers 'kid brother), a plucky, self-reliant 5-year-old. No Time's Right for 'Traveler's Wife'
• Every four years, our brave lads and lasses tend to venture to foreign slopes with faint expectations, which will be duly fulfilled, as they wind up racing to a plucky 32nd in the giant slalom or 29th in the luge.
• a plucky lampooner of the administration.
• Plucky Anna bounces back from her ordeal the next morning, so eager is she to get a Van Gogh back to the nice lady who deserves it, but a Romanian tycoon dispatches a tiny hit woman to steal the painting away. Touch of Evil
• They upped the ante, too, with Cold Play's "Viva La Vida," done with plucky violin daring, of course, "Rasputin," and a very drummy swing standard that brought the house down. Times Record News Stories
• The romantic picture of the plucky David girding himself against the brutish Goliath is dangerously misleading.
• Manchester City moved three points clear at the top of Division One and extended their unbeaten home run to 14 games, but made hard work of disposing of plucky Preston.
• British cinema loves a plucky underdog character. Times, Sunday Times
• Plucky firefighter Mark Murphy is back home from his heroic mission to help rescue people trapped in the Algerian earthquake.
• That mindset of being plucky underdogs against the giants runs through the team. Times, Sunday Times