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Example sentences for: verve

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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.
But this wealth of earnest achievement doesn’t mean that the people lack verve or the ability to enjoy themselves.
Sometimes a loss of verve is not a bad thing.
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 in adopting Old New York Times values of cautiousness and fairness and dullness, in striving to become the new Newspaper of Record, the Post has lost its verve.