High-spirited in a sentence as an adjective

Westfall — 5 feet 1 tall, with a graceful dancer’s body she honed as a tap-dancing teenager — is as stubborn as she is high-spirited.

This is pretty common with high-spirited teenagers, and it's often really useful to society as they challenge the status quo.

"Closest quote:"For these two, then, it seems there are two arts which I would say some god gave to mankind, music and gymnastics for the service of the high-spirited principle and the love of knowledge in them—not for the soul and the body except incidentally, but for the harmonious adjustment of these two principles.

High-spirited definitions

adjective

joyously unrestrained

See also: ebullient exuberant