Positive personality trait
Animated
Full of lively interest, movement, or excitement.
3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Lights up when a favorite subject comes up, talking faster and leaning in.
- Uses gestures, facial expressions and a changing voice to carry a point.
- Responds quickly and fully to what others say in a discussion.
Fits when someone becomes visibly expressive and full of movement while engaging
Not when you mean argumentative, agitated, or technically brought to life
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
There is no resume line for this one: it describes how someone looks in an engaged moment, not a strength to list. Show talks given, classes taught or pitches won, and let a reference describe the delivery.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Reference or recommendation [Name] is an animated speaker: when they present [project or subject], their interest shows, and [audiences, students or clients] stay with them to the end.
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Report card comment [Name] becomes animated in class discussions, especially in [subject], and their interest gets others talking.
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In a story, shown not told He had barely said a word all through dinner. Then someone mentioned the old railway line, and he pushed his plate aside and began drawing the route on a napkin.
He grew animated whenever the conversation turned to maps.
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