Words similar to esprit

Example sentences for: esprit

How can you use “esprit” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Since the late '70s, however, Stoppard has shown intermittent dissatisfaction with the kind of intellectual jeux d'esprit that made his name and has committed himself to a more ambitious theater of ideas.
For instance, paperless is emphatically not the first adjective that springs to mind to describe the office of an ESPRIT participant.
Modern translingual jeux d'esprit are Mots d'Heures Gousses Rames , by Luis d'Antin von Roote (New York, 1967) in which English masquerades as French; Brigid Brophy, In Transit (London, 1969); and the ultimate: Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake with their ostensibly English yet polyvalent, transliteral letter and word groups which punningly play over no fewer than fifty to sixty languages in Cheshire-catlike, now-you-see-it-now-you-don't trompes l'oeil .
For the most part, what is irreverent, scatological, or pornographic in French sounds benign, and is, of course, plein d'esprit .
The national infrastructure is fraying, with little renewal: Belgians have a high per-capita income and spend it generously on cars and dining, but what Rousseau called the esprit social seems lacking.