How To Use Spirited In A Sentence

Gervinho might prove to be another classic Arsène Wenger bargain, an athletic and pacy ball player raring to step up a level, spirited over from France for a fee that doesn't make a certain manager with a well-documented devotion to cautious housekeeping choke as if he was asked to fix the Greek economy before breakfast. Premier League preview No1: Arsenal | Amy Lawrence
In the curtain-raiser Federals put in a spirited performance against South in a match which didn't reach any dizzy heights in terms of skill, but held a level of entertainment value.
I realized how our leadership brings forth mediocre organizations and dispirited people.
These Brits are either bunglers, incompetent, mean-spirited, or they have no minds of their own.
Uncle Fliakim Sheril, furbished up in a new crisp black suit, and with his spindleshanks trimly incased in the smoothest of black silk stockings, looking for all the world just like an alert and spirited black cricket, outdid himself on this occasion in singing _counter_, in that high, weird voice that he must have learned from the wintry winds that usually piped around the corners of the old house. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know

Activists who have fought land rights battles inspired by the Constitution are a weary, dispirited lot.
For creative individuals, the siesta proffers a gift basket of ideas with which to consume an hour or so, the least spirited of which, to put it delicately, is the nap. Good morning, Melaque: one day in a small Mexico beach town
The criticism is worse than meanspirited: it is wrong. Times, Sunday Times
However after learning Yang great wild goose this factory arms the security office staff status truly, the new hundred personnel depart low-spirited.
The program ended with a free-spirited coda by all the dancers doing this, that, and especially the other, all with happy bravura and to Tchaikovsky.
Stowe gives a stirring performance as a strong spirited female.
She is a public-spirited person who is eager to correct the wrongs that we all see but we easily overlook.
These are meanspirited and horrible policies. The Sun
Still the visitors pressed, but a spirited start to the second half was soon stifled.
During the day I was sustained and inspirited by the hope of night: for in sleep I saw my friends, my wife, and my beloved country; again I saw the benevolent countenance of my father, heard the silver tones of my Elizabeth's voice, and beheld Clerval enjoying health and youth. Chapter 7
I love my children in ways that can never be put into words, but there is no hiding the fact that they are imperfect creatures, capable of the same pettiness, resentment, and mean-spiritedness that sets us adults to warring.
Most of the children are dispirited because of some adolescent problem.
Yet on this they are a little meanspirited. The Sun
One just wonders how much further matters would have gone if these public-spirited individuals not been passing by at that time.
Her landscapes range from sweeping panoramas in oils of mountains, lakes and towering coniferous trees to tropical beaches with bold greens and spirited blues.
Without an exception these hangers-on are a shallow, mean-spirited bunch of bourgeoise no-counts, who mistake philosophical declamation for conversation and obsequiousness for love.
I want to know the free-spirited wildness of my unrepressed desires realising themselves in festive play.
There is no effort to hide the blandness and utter dispiritedness of that future.
Croatia had offered spirited resistance then but not much going forward.
Open theism has found some favor with Pentecostals who view it in terms of a spirited give-and-take with God.
The one real sign of life in the first half was a spirited speech made by Colin Powell.
It is the intense hunger for soul food, soulful music, spirited dance, and wild, ecstatic, celebrative praise, whether it be voiced by the ghosts of former African slaves on Congo Square or by the choirs of old-time Black Churches, or the bands backing Second Line dancers, or the street music in dialogue with window shoppers and feast-ready patrons. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Two modern women present a spirited interpretation of a Chinese folk tale
The magazine also criticized ‘the polemical, partisan mean-spiritedness that lies at the heart of his book, and to an even greater degree, his television appearances flacking it.’
Carrying the name, along with all of Maurice's expectations, becomes too much for the free-spirited ex-con.
But I was foolish then, spirited and wilful, and so cursedly nearsighted.
Bening plays the spirited Sue Barlow, a spinster who has waited to meet the right man.
It's like asking a high-spirited young gun dog to join the parade at Crufts. Mark Cavendish is no mountain man, but he adores the Giro d'Italia
The marital tragi-comedy stars the director's actress wife Emmanuelle Seigner as a free-spirited temptress wed to an invalid Peter Coyote, engaged in seductive cruise-ship shenanigans with Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott-Thomas. Start September With Superior Cinema
Her story loosely mirrors the author's own experiences as the indentured servant of a mean-spirited and violent woman.
Accustomed to riding a spirited Nicaean stallion, he was now trying to adjust to a small grey donkey. The Falcons of Montabard
Captain John Frankford, commanding the 18-gun privateer Belvedere out of Philadelphia, had several spirited engagements with French xebecs and privateers off the Spanish coast in the spring of 1799 during the Quasi-War with France.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey began by pointing to what he called a spirited worldwide online debate about the future, including America's financial security, in which Mr. Obama's name figured prominently. President Obama Hosts Twitter 'Town Hall' on Economy
In addition, if you look closely at the article you will see it has a certain wry affectionateness towards Labour, and deals with the expenses scandals humorously, pointing out just a few individuals who have apparently failed their genial and public spirited leader. Archive 2009-05-16
The backing is spare and spirited; the close-harmony singing brings energy to even the more generic pieces. Times, Sunday Times
The Daily Telegraph said Capello desperately needs to shake up his team to get the best out of players like Frank Lampard and a "dispirited" Rooney before the final group C game with Slovenia. The Age News Headlines
I managed to get rid of the parents, & high spiritedly returned to my room to unpack everything save the suitcase; I even stuck some posters on the wall.
James always had his sights set firmly on conquering the mountain and prior to the climb the spirited and adventuresome youngster trained for five weeks in the Commeragh mountains.
She never paid the sixpence, though she lost, but contented herself by abusing Mary all day, and said I was a poor-spirited sneak for not instantly horsewhipping Mr. P. The Great Hoggarty Diamond
Criscantoi Vaz was a sturdy-spirited man of much presence, of great sagacity, of considerable quiet strength. KING OF DREAMS
A pity; with such spirited playing one longed to hear every scurrying semiquaver. Times, Sunday Times
Tory Burch Tory Burch resort collection 2012 Tory Burch went Southwest for her spirited resort collection, which featured, in addition to her signature tunics and ballet flats, twists such as pretty silk fringe scarves, tweed woven ponchos and basketweave jackets all inspired by the American Southwest, Santa Fe in particular. Resort Wear from the Urban Jungle to the Mellow Southwest
Garrymore, lacking the overall balance of their opponents, did make a spirited effort to get into the reckoning in the third quarter, but could make little headway.
Though engine trouble threatens to put the kibosh on the adventure, a series of spirited safety exercises do much to boost morale. Times, Sunday Times
But Pietro is too lost in his own daydreams and dispirited behavior to pay attention to his studies.
Except that it determines the course and context of your next earthly incarnation, rather than whether you'll be spirited off to heaven or hell.
Some of the e-mail messages, purloined last November, were mean-spirited, others were dismissive of contrarian views, and others revealed a timid reluctance to share data.
Yet if he were to die tomorrow in a jeep accident, drowning in ditch water as Mike did, it would be fundamentally indecent and mean-spirited of me to sketch such a portrait.
I have communicated it to the Speaker, (who is arrived from Mallow) and 'he desires me to make his con) plim. ents to your Lordship, and directs me to assure you, that he has the fullest sense, as I most. certainly have, of your Lordship's wise and spirited conduct upon this occasion. Memoirs of the political and private life of James Caulfield, earl of Charlemont
She realized that she had left her besom behind in the field, having forgotten it as the strange spirit had spirited her away from where the hole had been.
This was unforgivable form - but I was hot, sweating, badly sunburnt, my feet were freezing, wet and blistered, I was frantic with thirst, hungry and utterly dispirited.
She's also frequently side-splittingly funny and while her whole persona, and the concept of Fashion Police is obviously based on criticizing celebrities, mostly women, to the point of mean-spiritedness, it is often very very funny. Rachel Lloyd: The Power Behind Policing Fashion
You can embrace your fears and become a timid, dispirited, wounded person for years—perhaps for a lifetime—or you can reject your dread and believe what God has said to be true. Recovering From Religious Abuse
Despite a spirited effort from HMS Tireless the submariners lost the inaugural match but they are already looking forward to a return match and the chance to level the score.
I take objection to being grouped in with the dispirited parents.
Though engine trouble threatens to put the kibosh on the adventure, a series of spirited safety exercises do much to boost morale. Times, Sunday Times
All three students agreed it was a lively, humorous, spirited debate and a rewarding experience.
Her pallor that morning refined the indubious coarseness of her face, and changed vulgarity into the attractive originality of a spirited character. London River
I felt a little bit low-spirited after my first attempt but decided to cheer myself up, and headed for the head office of one of the biggest commercial banks in town.
I spirited him with a cup of coffee.
Occasionally some unhinged goon will run alongside showering riders with water or giving them a push up the hill but it is mostly high-spirited encouragement.
He was a dispirited man, on the brink of destruction by the abrasive world of society and business.
If we step on shore, the ‘Charadrius caruncula’, a species of plover, a most plaguy sort of “public-spirited individual”, follows you, flying overhead, and is most persevering in its attempts to give fair warning to all the animals within hearing to flee from the approaching danger. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
The spirited mother's courage and love for her son lend the narrative warmth and dignity.
That alone was easily enough to overwhelm their depleted and dispirited numbers, but the army outside also numbered several battalions of foot soldiers.
Independent, free-spirited, and as bootylicious as her look-alike, Teresa tends to meet men who want to dominate her, which is the exact opposite of what she's looking for.
Research for the Scottish Executive has fingered mean-spirited van drivers as the worst culprits in cutting up cyclists and blocking cycle lanes, with cab drivers not far behind in the pedal-power demonology.
I left eventually at six o'clock feeling utterly dispirited and depressed.
The mere thought of standing in front of a classroom of high-spirited Scottish teenagers is enough, you might think, to make the vast majority of septuagenarians shudder.
I taught Sunday school classes, led home Bible studies, and discussed theological nuances in spirited conversations with my friends over coffee. Maul Statue | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
In "My Jerry Saltz Problem," a spiritedly discursive philippic in the New Criterion about the changing nature of art criticism, James Panero articulates how disgruntled print journalists and traditional art critics feel about new media such as blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. Sharon L. Butler: Jerry Saltz's Burden
Jocko Homo" spirited the crowd into a marketing dream come true vocal chant ( "We are Devo!"), and the punkish "Mongoloid" gave the hopping crowd a dizzying dancing beat. All articles at Blogcritics
A proposed resolution to oppose voucher plans and charter schools provoked a spirited debate on the convention floor.
Economists generally take for granted, if only tacitly, a teleological view of money's historical development, according to which it first takes the "primitive" form of mundane commodities such as cowrie shells and cacao seeds, and then advances through various stages, culminating in the national fiat monies most economies rely upon today. offers a spirited rebuttal to this naively "whiggish" perspective. EconLog
A free-spirited beachcomber living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Ringo White scours the shores of Lake Michigan for the materials needed to construct his sprawling, mixed-media installation.
At the climax of ‘La Londe’, he breaks out into a spirited reel, completely changing the direction of this Baka children's song.
Full marks to the players who braved the snow, sleet and freezing conditions to serve up a fast spirited game.
Objectors gave spirited critiques of what they described as a conspiracy against culture itself. In the Plex
To equate abortion w/alcoholism is dishonest, mean-spirited and hypocritical. Think Progress » Focus on the Family to air a second ad during Super Bowl pre-game.
It is ugly, mean-spirited, exploitative, illogical, and boring.
Came the last act and the conviction among the frozen and dispirited cast that in front of us were overcoated tailor's dummies. GOODBYE CURATE
In fact they put up a spirited fight for much of this contest, but lacked the heavy artillery.
“Every one of those wild fellows,” said I to myself, “is worth a dozen of the poor mean-spirited book-tramper I have lately been discoursing with.” Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
I wonder if kooky, free-spirited Suzette will teach her how to love life again by the final credits?
I left eventually at six o'clock feeling utterly dispirited and depressed.
On its simplest level, it traces two calamitous marriages: one between the sweet, idealistic Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey) and priggishly meanspirited Rev. Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide), the other pairing equally idealistic Dr. Tertius Lydgate (Douglas Hodge) with the wretchedly selfish Rosamond Vincy (Trevyn McDowell). By George, We've Got It
In narrative, no doubt, the writer has the alternative of telling that his personages thought so and so, inferred thus and thus, and arrived at such and such a conclusion; but the soliloquy is a more concise and spirited mode of communicating the same information; and therefore thus communed, or thus might have communed, the Lord of Glenvarloch with his own mind. The Fortunes of Nigel
And then the sting in the tail: with its hallmark mean-spiritedness, the Conservative government is taking yet another slap at Richard Colvin. Torture--with gags
Now we think a public-spirited person is somebody with passionate opinions about public matters, one who signs petitions and becomes an activist for a cause.
He's an egotistical, mean-spirited, abusive man.
Name-calling, popularity contests and general mean-spiritedness have long been a part of adolescence.
The setting of the poem is a midtown bar where the poet sits musing dispiritedly about the onset of WWII.
He came to Devizes in 1989 to take over a rather dispirited congregation, which had suffered from constant changes in clergy over a short period.
Now, members of that same group are criticizing two people for making "meanspirited" comments about Catholics. Second Blogger Quits Edwards Campaign
The King insists that Aquaman is the rightful heir to the throne, and that as a baby he was spirited away--because of his "deformities"--to protect the monarchy. Archive 2009-06-01
The women were low-spirited, dull, nay, peevish, they did not well know why; and the men could not be joyous, though the ready resource of old hock and champagne made some of them talkative. — Saint Ronan's Well
A stooping, dispirited Adam and a wistful Eve walk slowly through a lush garden with gravid fruit trees and a profusion of animals, as a flaming red cherub, his sword raised, glowers against a possible return.
A proposed resolution to oppose voucher plans and charter schools provoked a spirited debate on the convention floor.
This festival combines church ceremonies with horse racing, bullfights, cockfights, and a spirited carnival.
The Confucian view is that political leaders should be the most talented and public-spirited members of the community, and the process of choosing such leaders should be meritocratic, meaning that there should be equal opportunity for the best to rise to the top. Confucianism vs. Irrational Voters, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
It involves rapid, spirited steps similar to the Spanish zapateado, in which the feet tap the beat on the floor
The public-spirited activity is one of important paths that business enterprise undertake righteous duty in Harmonious society.
And this is exactly what we're being invited to do in the presentation of the inspirited machines as a technological advancement beyond that of the soulless robot. Strange Fiction in the Marketplace
These are meanspirited and horrible policies. The Sun
Standing in the middle of the Main Street, looking at the crowd in front of him, his light-heartedness was quickly overwhelmed by dispiritedness.
During its course, this class developed a highly competitive intramural athletic program, where competition was keen and spirited, perhaps a classic understatement.
The terror lies not in the apparitions themselves, but in what is happening to the children; they change from ‘sweet things’ to open liars and mean-spirited little beings.
The well-oiled and inspirited propaganda machine functions superbly from Wall Street to Washington D.C.
He loved the line drawings of scenery, battles, human proportions and horses in spirited motion. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
And while seemingly well adjusted, Ruben too is dispirited, trading on the bodies and brainlessness of his fighters for a few dollars and the dream of the big time.
Two-spirited ones (formerly known as berdache) were commonly found in many Amerindian cultures. Christopher Ryan: The Prehistory of Prop 8
They're all 6 feet tall and in their sixties or seventies and they're spirited and feisty.
All Montanes, a steady baseliner playing his 10th French Open, had to do was win two out of the next three points against a wounded, dispirited opponent who couldn't run and couldn't serve harder than 80 mph. Hard-Luck Story for Fognini
Thank you both very much for a spirited, lively, intelligent discussion.
Wingnutism is less a political position than a general attitude of selfishness and mean-spiritedness. Think Progress » McDonnell apologizes, promises to acknowledge slavery in Confederacy proclamation.
Darcy, though attracted to the next sister, the lively and spirited Elizabeth, greatly offends her by his supercilious behaviour at a ball.
For a split second, I marvelled at his spirited attitude before it dawned on me that he was actually a tourist.
Any bars that are still left standing have dispirited serving girls.
The game was fast, the play spirited and strong and neither side was prepared to give an inch of turf unchallenged.
a spirited dance
He is author of "Allenby," "A Dispirited Rebellion: Essays on Contemporary Israeli Culture" and the forthcoming "The Settlers & the Struggle for the Meaning of Zionism. WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
Seven days previously they were dispirited and downhearted after being well beaten by Salford yet by Sunday they'd recovered to the point of putting on one of their most complete displays of the campaign.
Very often staff feel that their colleagues have been silently and invisibly spirited out of the company in a surreptitious and clandestine manner.
Trojans put their recent woes behind them as they brushed aside a dispirited Beckwithshaw side.
As we walked back to the keep where the Greens were barracked, the two Sathe carried on a spirited conversation, recalling old battles where defenders were in similar conditions.
The Second sounds euphoniously high - spirited to our ears, but in 1803, at the time of its premiere, it gave listeners some serious jolts. 'The Ninth'
They were born to debate and disputation, abashed by no authority established over them, brash and as spirited as cats.
ASpiritedLife. com: The Eva Mendes Spirit Interview: Kicking Ass And Revealing Some Too TeenDirectory. net: Erotic sleuthing laced with backwards babes, and Paulson on female doormat duty while Scarlett's shrewdie hangs with a murderous gang of homicidal fattie clones, like an underworld Madonna bossing an obedient crew of paunchy boy toys. Undefined
When a Poor-spirited Creature that died at the same time for his Crimes bemoaned himself unmanfully, he rebuked him with this Question, Is it no Consolation to such a Man as thou art to die with Phocion? Spectator, August 2, 1711
She emerges in these pages as a spirited old bird, who likes a large gin and Dubonnet before lunch, prefers to brew her own tea, and can do a mean Irish accent.
In the past 18 years he has transformed himself from a spirited iconoclast, fearlessly lampooning the excesses of the rich and famous, into an aspiring member of the haute bourgeoisie.
The difference between the two first sentences is the difference between a high-spirited epic of self-assertion and a slender account of the threadbare ego.
With those five words, Lili managed simultaneously to convey exhaustion, indomitable, spirited arrogance, and shocked, virginal modesty.
Finn and Larkins started to walk away from the bench that seated the 3 dispirited boys, all of whom were sighing with misery and woe.
After the concert, the band was spirited away before their fans could get near them.
For all the digging and exposing and sharp-witted quipping the film offers, there's not a mean-spirited moment in it.
Unlike the Koran, however, the Bible has long been fair game for spirited literary re-readings.
Suggesting it as to people whom you do dislike, even if you suggest it facetiously, is mean-spirited.
Seeing it on the ground, public-spirited churchwarden John Shardlow appropriately took it into nearby St James's church for safe keeping until he could arrange for its repair.
Self-serving and public-spirited doctors alike want a break from top-down revolution. National Health Service: Dogma, democracy and the doctors | Editorial
News peer reputation survey, generated a spirited critique by David Giacalone on on the f/k/a blog, which is dedicated to "one-breath poetry & breathless punditry with haikuEsq," for engaging in "bad neology": Law Porn, Law School Puffspam, Haiku, and Woodpeckers
This television program provoked a spirited debate in the United Kingdom.
The alternative to Segal's style of self-build was the kind of free-spirited hippy homes that sprung up in self-consciously alternative communities, notably in California. Junkitecture and the Jellyfish theatre
He had a very strong look around him, a look that inspirited people in his presence.
Somehow you know where her relationships are going with the uptight mayor, the free-spirited riverboat dweller, and her cranky neighbour.
It was an ill-assorted gang he had joined: high-spirited youngbloods like Cornelius Cethegus, out for a fight; aging and dissolute noblemen like Marcus Laeca and Autronius Paetus, whose public careers had been frustrated by their private vices; mutinous ex-soldiers led by rabble-rousers like Gaius Manlius, who had been a centurion under Sulla. CONSPIRATA
It was a particularly unspirited time for the Anglican church in Sydney.
She put up a spirited defence in the final game.
I have had a slight feverish attack for the last few days, and I feel ill, or rather I feel low-spirited.
We live in a sad era that mistakes mean-spirited arrogance for intellectual daring, juvenile nastiness for independence of mind, the dung beetle for the artist.
Betty is so sexy and free-spirited - I love this video! Hooping.org | Blog | Betty Is Too Sexy
Norbrook offers such a spirited apologia for his methodology that you will forgive him most things.
Forget the punitive mean-spirited class biassed cheeseparing. The nudge is no policy fudge | Francis Maude
One stereotype that will never die is the dishonest and mean-spirited politician.
As a man he is high-spirited and energetic, always ready to fight for his Sultan, his country and, especially, his Faith: courteous and affable, rarely failing in temperance of mind and self-respect, self-control and self-command: hospitable to the stranger, attached to his fellow citizens, submissive to superiors and kindly to inferiors — if such classes exist: Eastern despotisms have arrived nearer the idea of equality and fraternity than any republic yet invented. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The show was big, generous, inclusive and high-spirited.
He became a movie legend by thrilling audiences with his high-spirited adventures, roguish charm, and dashing good looks.
His female co-star this time is a free-spirited German girl whose lifestyle is whatever they would call a "hippie" today.
As Argentina's presidential election approaches, many dispirited voters are planning on turning in blank ballots or not voting at all.
But this bogus community, spirited up to serve administrative convenience, does not exist.
Just half an hour by herself and she might be able to sort out the situation, for to accept it without a struggle seemed to her to be very poor-spirited. Politics 101
She refused to be dispirited by her long illness.
Thereâ€ ™ s never an excuse for bigotry and namecalling, and certainly those who would use the term towelhead are doing so in an attempt to be insulting, mean-spirited, and contemptuous. FlickFilosopher.com
The dispirited day, is in the ruins quiet dying embers.
The Nevada senator argued the Tea Party was driving what he described as "mean-spirited" proposed cuts to the federal budget, some version of which Congress must past by April 8 in order to avoid a government shutdown. Breaking News: CBS News
5 However, even the few references in the New Testament that touch upon the worship of the early Church show that, far from being a wild group of free-spirited "Charismatics," the Christians in the New Testament worshiped liturgically as did their fathers before them: they observed hours of prayer (Acts 3: 1); they worshiped in the Temple (Acts 2: 46, 3: 1, 21: 26); and they worshiped in Synagogues (Acts 18: 4). Latest Articles
Fiction that deflates is quite common (and I believe a symptom of post-modern philosophy, but that is another matter) but I sense that VQR has more spirited writing. Waldo Jaquith - The New Yorker’s fiction is terrible.
An insider said players think the club is 'meanspirited'. The Sun
Both inspirited and knowing, this boy always will find game.
Thirdly, why we should perhaps not be too dispirited and demoralised about public life.
That'sa mean-spirited thing for a mother to say.
However, Spirited Away combines a charming, classical plot -- a girl captured and enslaved in fairyland, forced to work in a sort of bathhouse for mythological gods and monsters -- with incredible animation which updates Miyazaki's character designs with gorgeous digital colors and sparing use of CG. MIND MELD: Anime Film Favorites (+ The Top 14 Anime Films of All Time!)
If you chase someone to repay the tenner you lent them, you look mean-spirited and churlish.
She had had enough of that dark dispirited house with its gloomy, self-flagellatory paintings and its almost relentless aura of doom. Beneath an opal moon
Lionel, concluding himself the cause, begged her not to be low-spirited, but to write the letter at once. Camilla
Can I interest you in an afternoon of spirited questing followed by a flagon of ale at Yon Virtual Tavern?Yeah, sure, why not?
To Beijing's dismay, jamming television signals during the spirited Hong Kong elections last year also didn't work: freelance electronics experts from the People's Liberation Army offered antijamming services to anyone who could pay. China's Renegade Province
The spectacle of Sarah Palin "aw shucks-ing" her way to mean-spirited accusations reveals a hurter, not a healer. John O'Neil: Why Voters Must Favor a Healer as Leader
But as demonstrators' ranks swelled, police and antiriot forces lined the streets, ordered shops to shut down and responded at times with force, according to witnesses and opposition websites, in a repeat of the official crackdown that helped snuff out months of spirited opposition rallies a year ago. Tehran Beats Back New Protests
By rights, it should be obvious cannon fodder for a dispirited Opposition. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
Including youth in a real, substantive way in politics will lead to even more interest as they take their public-spirited nature into the political realm. Charles Orgbon: We the People, We the Teens
The strong-willed novelist struggles to balance the needs of her frail and temperamental lover against those of her high-spirited daughter and her Oedipally challenged son, who hates him for it.
You're a public-spirited citizen and you want to see justice done. HOPE TO DIE
One of Arthur's sparks of kindly feeling awoke when he beheld his once handsome, high-spirited sister, altered and wrapped up, entering the room with an invalid step and air; and though she tried to look about in a bright 'degage' manner, soon sinking into the cushioned chair by the window with a sigh of languor. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife
Through the bleak winter months they travailed, lifting their fitness levels to unprecedented levels and inspirited their collective resolve.
Captain Bragg, who thought there was nothing in his passenger, and considered he was a poor-spirited feller at first, was constrained to own that the Major was a reserved but well-informed and meritorious officer. Vanity Fair
Still, by now Rube wasn't really a stranger and I didn't want to be seenasmean - spiritedinsuchaposh restaurant.
He continues however to sit croaking at Ghent, chagrinned, discontented, and dispirited. Robert Morris
As a young and spirited politician, he seems a worthy vessel for the nation's hopes.
What the Sligo County Board have done is to engage in a low, mean-spirited, under-hand piece of skulduggery.
After a series of grammatical errors and further assaults on the English language he brought his spirited sermon to an end and introduced to the pulpit a trendy-looking prophetess named Marline.
Despite being exposed to the rather adult situations, Williams remains refreshingly unjaded and identifies with her spirited character. Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams: I Did Try to Make Arya Left-Handed!
In what vernacular tongue, for instance, does Mr. Hunt find a lady's waist called _clipsome_ (p. 10) -- or the shout of a mob "enormous" (p. 9) -- or a fit, _lightsome_; -- or that a hero's nose is "_lightsomely_ brought down from a forehead of clear-spirited thought" (p. 46) -- or that his back "drops" _lightsomely in_ (p. 20). Famous Reviews
The "dispirited" part is an obvious gaffe, but it seems that it's entirely possible to be a "conservative liberal," depending on what you mean by those terms. My campaign will be dispirited, because I'm a proud conservative liberal...
Sometimes, when nature, overcome by hunger, sank under the exhaustion, a repast was prepared for me in the desert, that restored and inspirited me. Chapter 24

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