Anouska Hempel

I feel that, historically, the Art Deco period has the most resonance for me. As a person, it has to be the plucky Clara Bow, the heroine of American silent movies of the 1920s. She embodied feminine dressing mixed with men's style. All this then evolved into the exquisite style and simplicity of Coco Chanel.

New Zealander Actress

Rita Moreno

I've always had this image of this strong, sprightly person who is undaunted by anything; on the contrary, I was one of the shyest, most unsure people you ever met in your life. But I have one very specific quality: I'm plucky. I really am. I would say that's a perfect description of my personality.

Puerto Rican Actress

Isaac Hempstead Wright

Eggs is a kind of a plucky, brave 11-year-old boy who thinks he is a boxtroll. And he's kind of one of these mythological feral children who are raised in isolation of humanity and, by virtue of that, have a deeper connection to humanity because they've been raised away from the poisons of society.

English Actor

Owen Jones

The market fundamentalist ideology that dominates much of the west has attempted to indoctrinate us with a simple myth: that we all rise or fall according to our individual efforts alone; that billionaires amass vast amounts of wealth because they are entrepreneurial, plucky, go-getting geniuses.

British Journalist

Rachel Johnson

With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.

British Author

Nick Harkaway

Cheese is good. And Britain, despite the grumblings of the French and the outrage of the Swiss, not to mention some plucky challenges from Italy, Austria, and Spain, has some of the best cheese in the world. We're world leaders in cheese.

English Novelist

Andrew Dominik

There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that.

New Zealander Director

Adam Richman

If you're a guy who's always been the fun-to-be-around teddy bear, then all of a sudden people are viewing you as sexy, it's nice. It's great not having to be the plucky best friend or the comic relief anymore - I love that.

American Actor

Alexandra Petri

Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias and market it as a sleeper hit.

American Journalist

Pierre Salinger

American Public Servant

Plucky implies admiration for someone showing bravery despite risks or challenges.

Positive Connotation

Often used to describe someone who shows courage in a situation where they're not expected to succeed.

Underdog Spirit

Plucky doesn't mean being reckless; it's about sensible courage and determination.

Not Foolhardy

 Well, fortunately, there's a silver lining to my findings. Those plucky entrepreneurs who managed to switch focus by responding to prevention questions with promotion answers went on to raise 14 times more funding than those who responded to prevention questions with prevention answers.

The real reason female...

 the two little plucky rovers that could arrive and they do all kinds of things, however, they did not have capabilities to do anything like what Curiosity can do. But before we get into Curiosity, I want to tell you a little bit about what--

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 antelope for all their troublesome reputation baboons are very devoted parents but how does baboon parenting work we're going to explore baboon society and find out the secrets behind the success of this plucky primates

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 the victims presence the BOA has the mouse trapped eye on a limb with no way out as the BOA moves in for the kill the mouse seems to be doomed how can our plucky hero ever escape this possible traffic

Mouse vs. Boa PIPE National...

 quickly growing too big to sit under the parent they're starting to discover there's a world beyond the nest down behind the Boatshed this plucky little talent still a couple of months from

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 mouse trapped high on a limb with no way out as the BOA moves in for the kill the mouse seems to be doomed how can our plucky hero ever escape this impossible trap

Mouse vs Boa PIPE National...

 his eyes famished the plucky little fighter loses no time filling up on his mother's rich milk and this wolf has been thoroughly buffaloed