«One has the vigorous body of an athlete, another the lively mind of a scholar, a third the [spirited] personality of a [movie star]» (Stott, 72). (redeeminggod.com)
On the other hand, his penetrating and lively mind had been in evidence from the days of his Master's degree before he entered the Augustinians. (religion-online.org)
Mostly this is a thrillingly compassionate, deceptively simple, and wholly invested look at a capable older woman with a lively mind coping with a series of common misfortunes. (metacritic.com)