larky

• “As our happy-go-lucky chief was out in what may be termed a larky state of mind, and had nothing particular to do, he accepted the invitation.”

  The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar

• “That's Robert Wagner, who enjoyed his biggest success on Hart To Hart and It Takes A Thief, this larky series about an urbane jewel thief recruited to steal for the government when they're not free to act.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: DVDs: "West Side Story" (Almost) Perfect In New BluRay Set

• “Here you'll find larky, quirky things," said Ms. Daniel.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Hot Zones for Antique Buyers

• “Samantha Womack, who exited EastEnders after its contentious baby-snatching storyline, is larky in voice and sparky in demeanour but and this can't have been due to her broken toe has a disconcerting habit of swinging her arms up and down as if trying to take off.”

  The Guardian: One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs – review

• “Webb's tone throughout Food Britannia is standard-issue larky, with gallant jokes about not asking lady producers their ages and the effect that hard toffee can have on wobbly teeth.”

  The Guardian: Food Britannia by Andrew Webb – review

• “A bit larky but not larky enough, I'm afraid, though again Dearden drops in some great tidbits, like the casual approach to a gay member of the team.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: DVDs: Keep Your "Eyes On The Prize" and "Superman" (Not That One) And More

• “He appeared in the final Old Vic season (before the new National theatre was ensconced there in 1963), forging a friendship with the actor Vernon Dobtcheff, who remembers "an astringent mentor, an elegant guru and a larky friend" – one who would sail diagonally through the fierce traffic on the Waterloo Road with a cry of: "They wouldn't dare: they couldn't face the litigation.”

  The Guardian: David William obituary

• “Based on the Lope de Vega play Fuenteovejuna, about a Spanish village that rises against its tyrannical overlord, the ballet harks back to old peasant ballets from the previous century: cue larky drinking dances, cute lovers and comic village elders that could have come straight out of Coppélia or Don Quixote.”

  The Guardian: Mikhailovsky Ballet: Laurencia

• “Others have the larky feel of Maverick, the great comic western starring James Garner.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: DVDs: I Heart "Firefly"

• “Somehow the hats and the shoes, the gloves and the bags, the business-like suits and the spangled ballgowns don't add up into the woman, who was – at least until the protocol of the claustrophobic little principality stifled her – so dangerously larky and so frankly erotic.”

  The Guardian: Grace Kelly: Style Icon

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