He was, unlike Napoleon, "thoroughly French in character, possessing all the liveliness and talkativeness of that people."

He wanted to lose himself in her warmth and liveliness on his last night.

Pierre noticed that after every ball that hit the redoubt, and after every loss, the liveliness increased more and more.

We know him in the intense liveliness of his feeling and the human weakness of his nature more intimately than any other writer of antiquity, except perhaps Cicero.

But when an idea is so roused up by a present impression, and when this idea, being a consequence of memory, has in itself a certain vivacity or liveliness, we regard it with a peculiar indefinable feeling, and in this feeling consists the immense difference between mere imagination and belief.