pertly

• “I did the best I could -- and as for the matter of that, "pertly," so did the _bon Dieu_. ”

  Madcap

• “It's a masterful Brueghel composition, leading the eye along a zigzag path to a windmill perched pertly on the distant horizon.”

  The Guardian: This week's new exhibitions

• “The owner looked at my CV, the numerous internships squeezed together with painstaking artifice to make it all fit onto one page, and then looked at me, perched pertly on the chair in front of him, in the new suit and heels my father bought me, with only a hint of neutral makeup, a 21st-century secular martyr.”

  The Guardian: The internship myth | Emily Sands-Bonin

• “Susan Heyward, as Sabrina, not only sparkles in the role, but pertly reasons her way through the character's dilemmas.”

  The Washington Post: Theater: 'Sabrina Fair' at Ford's Theatre is reviewed by Nelson Pressley

• “Center Rep's production of She Loves Me! was pertly directed and choreographed by Robert Barry Fleming.”

  The Huffington Post: George Heymont: Twelve Months Till Christmas

• “It's not "bedfellows making strange politics," as the Toronto Star so pertly puts it.”

  Archive 2009-04-01

• “I mimicked his posture—arms crossed, head cocked pertly.”

  Simon & Schuster: Mercy Kill

• “Hye-Youn Lee's Lisette scurried pertly, her sweet, clear soprano full of character and a good complement to the warmth and wistfulness of Kate Ladner's Magda – the swallow of the title, who flies from true love for guilty memory.”

  The Guardian: Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra – review

• “Heyer was never taken seriously by her contemporary critics "waggishly frolicsome, pertly paced", but "Regency Buck" and most of her other novels are still in print.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Sweet Spot in Literary History

• “I asked, as she led me down the steps, the skirt of her red dress swishing pertly around her tawny legs.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bleeding Violet

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