| What the CDs cannot however capture, is the verve and the gutsy performance which is all part of the live gig. |
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| This balletic score received a performance filled with rhythmic verve and brio. |
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| Yet this same musician played the Blues movement of the Ravel Sonata with the jazzy verve of a Stephane Grappelli. |
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| They played with invention and verve allied to common sense and steely determination on Saturday evening. |
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| It helps when the talent involved in bringing these characters to life does so with vim and verve. |
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| The band have verve, youth and vigour and their ebullient style puts me in mind of The Monkees until I listen to the lyrics. |
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| Each number has energy and verve, with more emphasis on songs and arrangements than jazz content. |
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| The major parties have performed all right, but there's no excitement, no verve and no spirit. |
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| Names should always be designated with verve and panache and Scotland, it turns out, has plenty of both. |
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| Like Clark Coolidge, whose verve depends on malapropism, neologism, and ricochet, Roberts bounces back and forth within a multivalent vocabulary. |
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| I wrote an introductory e-mail to farms all over Quebec describing my fervour and verve. |
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| The pitch-black bark with coarse texture is well weathered and full of the verve of unyieldingness. |
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| We commend the work of Jyllie in particular for her drive, verve and persistence in organising the parade. |
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| Here, in other words, is a nightmare vision of a world without originality, verve, spirit or love. |
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| The group from Kolhapur in Maharashtra, to perform before Hyderabadis, was full of verve and vigour. |
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| Its fire, intellectual verve and occasional fanaticism are almost unique in British journalism. |
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| Teenage girls have passione and verve and the chutzpah to do anything and wear anything they want. |
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| She was a young woman in her 20s who sparkled with creative verve and obvious good taste. |
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| In an overwhelmingly male milieu, the diminutive Borda added verve and vigour. |
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| Maybe we all have an inner desire to ascend towards the heavens with grace and verve. |
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| With verve and vigour, they hold on to their ideal of delivering the message of peace. |
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| This show had all the verve and nerve that makes London street fashion the envy of the world. |
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| And when the out-takes fail to carry their usual verve, you just know you have witnessed a particularly bad movie. |
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| Not only did he write a great story, but he also directed it with characteristic verve and energy. |
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| Their laughter and verve has made the stale hall a vibrant bower and even the air conditioning plant is cooler. |
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| Its rhythmic verve and thematic appeal carry it along, even if it sounds like Mozart warmed-over. |
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| Within a week we were navigating our way through the mulga with great verve and confidence. |
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| The politics of John Heartfield's collages and the work of the Russians in the 1920s have not lost their verve and bite. |
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| Full of excellent illustrations, the authors tackle this notoriously odoriferous issue with verve and simplicity. |
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| And it's also a way of injecting a bit of verve and va-va-voom into a long-time staid art scene. |
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| Cojocaru's and Kobborg's verve gave substance to what otherwise might've seemed a sweet, airy meringue of a dance. |
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| Impressed as ever by her verve, we left her be, the sound of thousands of tiny sobs fading as we went. |
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| Sure, there were film songs sung with verve, dances and a skit, and games for children scampering around. |
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| Flanagan writes with verve and vim, but she's not as single-minded as her critics make her out to be. |
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| Her coquettish verve and her lippy song material will make the gals share a laugh and leave the ducktail set absolutely spellbound. |
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| A win would bring verve to a locker room in need of such a catalyst, an emotional jolt. |
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| Ruth is a pretty funny lady, but her sass and verve seem to be overplayed and pretty much misused here. |
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| Their first album was a rough as guts lo-fi recording, but featured considerable verve and passion. |
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| Germany injected their play with a level of verve they seemed to previously consider unnecessary. |
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| We need to start preparing for the worst and need to attack this issue with the verve and urgency that people had in the last campaign. |
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| A double-page album conveys all the panic, speed, ferocity, movement and verve of the hunt. |
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| At the other end, even though mistakes began to creep in, there was enough pace and verve to gee the crowd up if not break through. |
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| The whirlwind paced action inherently requires meticulous timing and control, which the cast display with consummate verve and flair. |
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| While the payoff is barely worth the effort, I was forced to marvel at his storytelling verve and his inventive prose style. |
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| Tureck plays with verve, bringing up the curtain on the second half of the set and reinvigorating our energy for the rest of the play. |
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| With her timing and verve, especially in her daffy musical numbers, she has consistently outshone Sarah Michelle Gellar. |
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| What saves Auster's story from ponderousness is the sheer verve with which he follows his narrator through the labyrinthine plot. |
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| This notion he argues with great verve, based on extensive reading in original literature. |
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| The draughtsmanship is precise, with just enough deviation to liberate the artist's verve and originality. |
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| Having achieved all their prematch aims, Boroughmuir then shut up shop and lost some of their verve and urgency. |
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| We wouldn't have been surprised to see them the next day disporting themselves on the golf course or the Tennis court with equal verve and dash. |
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| The corner is taken with similar verve and there is a goalmouth scramble where Arendse is unable to gather. |
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| But, whatever one may think of the arguments of the earlier chapters, few readers will fail to be struck by the verve, imaginativeness and subtlety of the later ones. |
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| Liverpool are full of vim and verve but it's all a bit aimless. |
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| This foxy red makes Jane completely irresistible and gives extra verve on long winter evenings. |
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| Today, George Benson continues to pursue his career with the same irrepressible verve and creativity. |
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| Wit, charm, romance, rhythmic verve and masterly orchestration combine in what many consider to be one of Rachmaninov's greatest compositions. |
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| Some of Europe's table-toppers bring more scoring verve to the party than Spain on current form. |
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| Sighing, she hefted the drinks tray and threaded her way to the table, wondering as she arrived why everyone seemed to have caught a sudden bout of Gallic verve. |
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| She faces great opposition, but her spunk and verve win out and she becomes a school teacher. |
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| Lauren Child has taken this hyperbolic, green fairy tale and invested it with new verve, spin and intelligence. |
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| FitzGerald's ingenious and felicitous paraphrasing gave his translations a memorable verve and succinctness. |
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| Without his puckish verve for disruption, it'd become a show about technical adequacy and endless piano ballads. |
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| He struggled to walk onto the stage but played flute, tenor and alto sax, police whistle, African tom-toms and cow-bell with enviable vigour and verve. |
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| Written with the same verve, wit and tenderness as the author's first novel, this book is both a very good read and highly educational. |
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| Listening to this album it is clear that Kery was back with all the energy and verve of his early days. |
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| You design your own show: Professional top-level show riding with various techniques and figures exuding passion, adventure and verve. |
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| Its very newness, added to its location on the Pacific, gives it a special casual verve. |
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| Thanks to the team at Queen's University that conducted the study with verve and intelligence. |
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| A new history tells their remarkable story with sensitivity and verve writes Wendy Smith. |
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| And so the question now is not only whether Ryan can reenergize the Romney campaign with his vision and verve. |
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| Where the Austin building is nuanced and almost spectral, Bakersfield is all verve and gesture. |
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| Its passionate verve makes your hair bristle with sheer pleasure. |
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| The jathis were in perfect harmony, and executed with energy and verve. |
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| The design captures the spirit, character and verve of Chinese culture. |
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| With clarity and verve, he drove home the timeless message of the Gita. |
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| But Byrne himself is the parodist, and he commands the stage by his hollow-eyed, frosty verve. |
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| Though Underhill admits his band of three saxes, a crazy bassist, and a dancing drummer is getting on in years, he claims they've still got that old verve. |
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| His yearning voice is laden with the characteristic microtonality of Arabic-influenced pop but uncoiled more snakily and with spine-tingling verve. |
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| More verve and vivacity, but this time with a Victorian backdrop. |
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| The High Command remained constricted by its novelettish story of murder, blackmail, and family secrets, but the verve of Dickinson's direction still shone through. |
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| Lang achieves his vision with panache, verve and high style. |
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| Fairbanks' silent action flick, cinematizing McCulley's story with clever verve and humor, set the style and plot for most of the screenplays to follow. |
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| These dark, medium rich, raisiny wines retain their acidic verve with age. |
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| Her verve and enthusiasm are infectious and a joy to hear. Unfortunately she has decided to give up her work as coordinator of the West Island Family Life Center and invited any who are interested to apply. |
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| Solo violin and viola delivered the final lively Rigaudon with panache and verve. |
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| When he learns of Yahweh's intentions, Abraham pleads the cause of the town, using all the arguments and shrewdness he can muster, with all the verve of a nomadic merchant of the day. |
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| They repeatedly advance explicit value judgments based on historical, philosophical, and moral viewpoints, which they proclaim with vigor and defend with verve. |
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| They lost an early wicket to Jimmy Anderson but then set about the England bowling with such verve that attack from England turned into defence and arrears were cleared with more than a dozen overs of the day remaining. |
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| Milan did not play with quite such attacking verve, yet the emergence of such players as Stephan El Shaarawy, Mattia De Sciglio and M'Baye Niang was nevertheless thrilling. |
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| Abdul Ajagun and Terry Envoh both scored to send the singing, dancing crowd into further hysterics, the youngsters playing with real joy and verve. |
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| Startling harmonic sidesteps, a short fugal development, a brief cadenza and a presto coda all contribute to the sustained interest in this movement, one imbued throughout with verve, vigor and rhythmic energy. |
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| The liveliness of his imagination, the sureness of his drawing enabled him to deal with all subjects with an outstanding verve and he had great success. |
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| Impressed by the verve and on-stage charisma of the French chanteuse, the director of one of the biggest casinos in Las Vegas invited her to take the starring role in a six-month show. |
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| Zuniga has ingenue beauty and the wit of a character actress, and she handles the scene with verve and dexterity. |
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| Chorusmaster Claude Webster led the ensemble with verve, in an arrangement by Francois Vallieres. |
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| You'll find bedrooms with clawfooted baths and snowy-white bed linen and it's all decorated with New England verve. |
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| At any rate, verve and enthusiasm for dialogue have not diminished. |
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| Precisely two hundred years after is foundation, Vacheron Constantin demonstrated that it had lost none of its creative verve and technical ingenuity. |
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| The essence of nearly all his Contes lies in their licentiousness, which is not presented with frank Rabelaisian verve but is transparently and flippantly disguised. |
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| Meanwhile, ill-favored Edith, who has spiffed up her wardrobe and is now dressed in sea-greens and coral-reds, is adored for her verve and intelligence by a free-thinking newspaper editor in London. |
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| Our challenge today is to recreate the verve and spontaneity beyond the arithmetic aspect of the notation, which indicates neither the inflections of sound nor the agogic liberties to be taken. |
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| There are chiefly towering high-rise apartment blocks lined up in neighbourhoods devoid of any of the beauty or verve characteristic of the streets of central Paris. |
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| Using trapeze, Chinese acrobatics and swing dancing, among other things, the company tackles rock formation, punctuated equilibrium theory and magnetic polarity reversal with its usual strength and verve. |
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| This is not what you expect from a hallowed score, yet the boisterousness is validated by Schubert's writing, its rhythmic verve gutsily relayed by the Rambert Orchestra under Paul Hoskins. |
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| Alain Lefèvre proved himself to be talented and energetic in everything he played? very much in the manner of the great keyboard virtuosos, he phrased with much verve and spirit. |
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| Equally, the whole lacks verve, especially for a 2nd growth. |
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| His 9th Symphony is one of the composer's shorter symphonies, a totally non-serious, unpretentious piece shot through with sardonic humour, verve and wit. |
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| Her 1962 guide to being happily unmarried was actually for anyone in search of taste and bezazz and verve and elegance. |
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| The novel is a whydunnit, not a whodunnit, and doubles as a tense courtroom drama of considerable verve and authenticity. |
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| His writing can be inelegant and rich with generalisations, but he tells Plath's story with the verve of a thriller, punching it with choice quotes. |
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| What is more, she writes with verve, tongue-in-cheek humor, and elegance. |
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| Carlo Ancelotti's European champions played with the verve and style that had set them apart the previous season and their early pressure soon told. |
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| David Benedictus and Mark Burgess write and decorate these tales of our much-loved characters with all the verve and spirit of Milne's and Shepard's originals. |
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| The standout of the whole show was the Firehall Arts Centres well-worn upright piano, played with remarkable dexterity and verve by Music Director Kathleen Lohrenz Gable. |
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