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41 examples of Verve in a sentence

And I've also told quite a few of my patients that if they could bring into their relationships one tenth of the boldness, the imagination and the verve that they put into their affairs, they probably would never need to see me.
Now, it was the courage and verve of radical designers like Bucky and Moholy that drew me to design.
Mitchell burns up the screen as a NATO pilot until his plane is burned up itself (by an enemy missle), whereupon the film loses what little verve it had to begin with.
Clumsy overdubs explaining the history, monochrome acting, boring sets, total lack of any humanity, verve or style.
Director Jean-Claude Lord, who previously helmed the under-appreciated slasher psycho thriller "Visiting Hours," stages the plentiful action scenes with considerable verve and maintains a zippy pace throughout, thus ensuring that this flick sizes up as an enjoyably trashy sci-fi/horror action outing.
Ford uses a relatively small cast, but directs them and photographs them with a verve and a sweep of epic proportions.
Barrymore, with a cohort of comedians, plays the comic fool and the wine-depressed Villon with a verve that Colman could not match.
THE CRANES ARE FLYING is, for the first half at least, supremely entertaining, boasting a lightness of touch completely unexpected from its country of origin; a fresh, brisk, spacious technique that eventually irritates as much as it initially charms; two stunning subjective set-pieces; and a romantic verve that flirts with, but never quite topples into, Lelouch territory.
Good-looking, if overlong piece has macho verve and a fine cast, yet the mechanisms of the plot get tiresome rather quickly.
John Miles, who had a rather thin resume in the industry, grins and guffaws throughout, and everyone else acts with the same verve as characters in a government-made filmstrip about driver safety.
But, you've got to hand it to that saucy little number Beverly Garland who treats her role with characteristic verve and dedication.
The plot seems condensed from a bigger book, making the plot developments obvious and uninvolving, while the direction lacks pace and verve.
Jake Gyllenhaal, Laura Dern and Chris Cooper bring a little acting verve to story with several standard elements.
Some excellent guest stars add colour and verve to individual episodes - Erik Estrada in Legacy of Terror, Phil Silvers in Horror in the Heights, Antonio Fargas in The Zombie.
WOW! Blood just blew us away with its sheer verve, gore, vitality, gore, excitement, gore, utter campiness, and even more gore, and all in SUCH GREAT FUN! Especially for those of you who enjoy all those Japanese chambara samurai and ninja films, YOU DEFINITELY HAVE TO SEE BLOOD!
Brooks directs with a lot of verve and uses several interesting transitions between scenes.
Barman paints his characters with great deal of verve and competently interweaves their individual stories, a tour the force that reminds of the best work of Robert Altman and Paul Thomas Anderson.
THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY is a gangster film, and an excellent one at that, exploring old themes of loyalty, betrayal, expansion etc. with verve and excellently choreographed, imaginatively novel violence (and no law in sight).
I got the feeling they were almost in a goof-off competition to see who could memorize their lines right before the take and spit them out with the most unrehearsed verve.
A tour de force by Bratt, "Pinero" tells the story of NYC dwelling drug addict, poet, jail bird, playwright, thief, and actor Miguel Pinero in a busy cacophony of sight and sound which trades kinetics and verve for content, clarity, and humanity.
Joe Dante binds it all together with magnificent verve, plus Dick Miller makes his trademark appearance!
So entertaining that there should be some kind of law passed against it, InnerSpace is a magnificently engaging example of top-drawer family entertainment, directed with charm, with, humour and imaginative verve by Joe Dante; despite Gremlins arguably being his most iconic and popular film, InnerSpace may very well be his finest hour.
I cannot remember the last time I saw a British film with such story-telling verve.
This quintessential eighties style is carried over to the sequel, made three years later, and although part two; like many sequels, never quite manages that same verve as the original film - it still offers a good time, and anyone that enjoyed the first instalment (and who didn't?) will probably have a good time with this sequel too.
Technically it will look primitive to the modern eye -- the sets are clearly sets, the models clearly models -- but it is all done with Melies' verve and dedication.
In spite of the film's somewhat sardonic tenor and dark subject, there's little violence, gore, sex or nudity, and over all the film is lacking in verve, style, and creative edge of the original American Psycho.
The energy and verve of this film is palpable.
Director Stuart Gordon relates the absorbing story at a brisk pace, does an expert job of maintaining a tough, gritty tone throughout, and stages the thrilling action scenes with rip-roaring verve (the climactic jailbreak sequence in particular is quite tense and stirring).
The geometry of "Live Flesh" involves two eternal triangles which share one man at a common apex with two men and two women at the opposing corners and lines drawn between each collectively representing the spectrum of emotion; love, hate, desire, jealousy, etc. Beautifully crafted, visually crisp, and an intriguing blend of drama noir and artful comedy, this film tells its tale of human relationship entropy with an abundance of verve and style.
Dribbled with strained references to the original series and delivered with the verve of a George W. Bush speech on international trade agreements.