Vigour
in example sentence
They were amused at his
vigour
and had already forgotten the strike by the time the dessert appeared.
More example sentences with word vigour
This lent a new
vigour
and complexity to a weary medium, and, in the best of them (eg BONNIE AND CLYDE, early Scorcese), a new subversion of received practice.
The tone is resolutely chirpy (in spite of the dour Black Country accents), but the film lacks 'East is East's
vigour
and the result seems rather thin and trite.
Unusually constructed around three separate lengthy flashbacks of past associates (a director, actress and writer, played by Barry Sullivan, Lana Turner and Dick Powell) of boy-genius Jonathan Shields (a composite, perhaps of David O Selznick and Orson Welles) played with total conviction and no little
vigour
by an emergent Kirk Douglas, these serve to lay bare, warts and all, his larger than life character by the conclusion, leaving the viewer to decide for themselves whether this golden boy with feet of clay is deserving of our admiration or derision.
On the contrary, we need the private sector to regain its sense of enterprise, innovation and vigour; we need to be careful of regulating so as to squeeze the availability of credit; and we should certainly avoid protectionism.
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