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Example sentences for: verve

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The problem remains: Do we, should we, bother with evaluative comparisons and contextualizations with an artist like Chris Ofili whose agenda seems to be anti-aesthetic, and whose context is much more the current sensations of pop music and fashion with which he vies in terms of energy and verve, than the old masters, the "strong and durable" art admired by Cézanne in the Louvre, and by many of us in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum?
But he was among the first to explore them with a level of intellectual verve and artistic sophistication that suggested to blacks and the world that there was, within the American dilemma of race, not only the expression of mere local and immediate political protest but the broad and rich possibilities of the human condition itself.
To be sure, I've been known to use that particular Anglo-Saxon expletive myself, and with great verve, too; but to encounter it in the pages of Slate was just too much.
Robert Hughes' PBS series and book American Visions managed to cover a much longer stretch of artistic waterfront with verve, insight, and erudition.
In this Wolfe succeeds ably, infusing his tale with characteristic wit, verve, and narrative propulsion.