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verve
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Verve was a modernist Parisian art magazine published by Teriade between 1937 and 1960. The magazine was first published in December 1937. The headquarters of the magazine was in Paris . It published 38 issues in 10 volumes including lithographs by the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Verve \Verve\, n. [F.] Excitement of imagination such as animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing; rapture; enthusiasm; spirit; energy.
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 excitement of imagination such as that which animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing 2 artistic energy and enthusiasm 3 vigour, vitality and liveliness
Usage examples of verve.
He applied his beguiling enticements with the crafty art of a true philanderer and boldly advanced his exploits with unmitigated verve.
Land Rover while Popsy drove with more verve than caution out of Lambourn and along a side road and finally up a bumpy track to open stretches of grassland.
There was a flat, lifeless quality about it that, without the verve of battlefield blood, spoke of tyranny most repellent and egregious, and yet at the same time petty and self-serving.
Hippolyte figuring in the bacchic dance in the midst of a chorus of joyous boon-companions, and thus proving to all eyes by his verve and his capers his complete cure?
She performed five numbers with undimming verve, gathered her full green skirt, and swept off the little stage as bouncily as a gymnast.
The Invigilator, wearing the mysterious contrivance, played himself, though with only such verve as we ordered him to display.
The only thing of value to them was their reputation, their artistic verve, their wit, their whimsy, and the calm dignity with which they welcomed their inevitable fall in darkened coffins into the blood red supergravity well of their dark star.
With much verve, and a true Voltairian spirit, he at first took up a moderate attitude, but being a time server soon discovered that his interest lay in another direction.
He hired out quite the dirtiest and unsafest bicycles in the whole south of England, and conducted the subsequent discussions with astonishing verve.
Bronze-haired Liami, who bounced in and out of beds with the same verve as she gobbled dessert treats on holidays.
She would get out of bed the next morning and complete her callisthenics program with fresh verve.
George was once a singing waiter, accustomed to linking dramaturgy and digestion, and he attacked the dangling nose with verve.
But she had no heart for the women's dance, her rhythms lacked verve, and she drank so little of the ceremonial tea, the effects wore off quickly.
Petty's boisterous verve is great, but she is not quite the riot girl she should have been -- and was clearly capable of playing.