Recent Examples on the WebThe actress taught herself to speak German, play piano and conduct an orchestra with verve and abandon for the role. Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2022 Twenty years before the Wyeths’ fateful drive, the party hopper and style-setter Edie Sedgwick seemed to be that Mona Lisa come to life—a muse with enough verve to step out from behind her own image. Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022 Others of ‘retirement age’ have started new businesses, gone back to school, or volunteer with verve. Joseph Coughlin, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022 Featuring two drummers, two trumpeters, two trombonists, a saxophonist and the tuba-like sousaphone, this funk and hip-hop savvy group salutes and extends the brass band tradition with infectious verve. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2022 Segundo Villanueva’s story is remarkable—a sort of inverse of Christ’s narrative, from Catholic carpenter to founder of a Jewish community—and Mochkofsky tells it meticulously and with verve. Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022 Piccolo died of cancer in 1970 at 26, and Mr. Caan played him with verve and humor in an unabashedly three-hanky film.New York Times, 7 July 2022 With screenwriter Dennis Kelly, Matthew Warchus has smartly adapted his own production for the screen with absolute verve and gusto. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 June 2022 It’s not only Sherman Edwards’s lyrics that unsettle with newfound verve, especially in a New England locale such as Cambridge, Boston’s next-door neighbor. Peter Marks, Washington Post, 15 June 2022 See More
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Etymology
French, from Middle French, caprice, from Old French, word, gossip, from Vulgar Latin *verva, from Latin verba, plural of verbum word — more at word