In Mailer this sort of extravagance is a sign of irrepressible high spirits.

Yet the narrator sees, in her own young man, a reflection of her father's restless, irrepressible spirit.

Small, stubby, slightly broken but with an irrepressible spirit.

His irrepressible spirit, genuine love of humanity and unparalleled generosity are a blessed legacy.

The irrepressible spirit that had made him the Goblin of old seemed to have fled.

Even so, he had an irrepressible spirit that most people found charming.

He was an irrepressible spirit, an irresistible little boy.

This show communicates a mixture of grim realities and the irrepressible high spirits of childhood.

The separate pieces do not always add up, but an irrepressible spirit pokes through.

She is initially described as having an irrepressible spirit and lives a carefree life, with a twinge of a cruel nature.