1. The wine's youth explains part of its friskiness . 2. Ms . van Kipnis showed off her usual clarity and an engaging friskiness . 3. The production's friskiness never lets up. 4. A century ago, this friskiness invited death from a whaleman's harpoon. 5. You're certainly not paying for friskiness , because this is no speed demon. 6. Still, Walsh's company handles the melancholy and the friskiness with equal dexterity. 7. Indicative of the new friskiness is a 1936 Lincoln Zephyr, called the High Life Mobile. 8. In sneakers and jeans, Schneider projects eternal friskiness , though at 47, he is the elder. 9. Duets for pat waing and the oboelike hne have the flexibility and friskiness of Ornette Coleman's jazz. 10. Although Berlin could turn a phrase, he lacked Gershwin's refined sense of satire and verbal friskiness .