They are painted with verve and chivalrous feeling.
It was savage, rasping music, but one player infused into it the ebullient verve of France, and the other was from the misty land where the fiddler learns the witchery of the clanging reel and the swing of the Strathspey.
Tone he did not aspire to, but he played with Caledonian verve and swing, and kept the snapping time.
No doubt he was impertinent, but not with that kind of bold and energetic insolence, that verve and talent which impress you even while you are offended with the man himself.
This proposition met with favor, and the girls were soon singing with a zest and verve that deserved a reward, but as before a dead silence greeted their efforts.
A good tale of early Bible times, told with a verveand vigour that keeps the interest sustained to the very end.
But Kate and Irene burst forth in the opening chorus with all the verve in the world.
The freshness and beauty of the melodies, the brilliancy and sonority of the instrumentation, the happy verve which animates the whole work, produced their natural effect.
Rossini had a very beautiful baritone voice, and he sang his music with a spirit and verve which neither Pellegrini, nor Galli, nor Lablache approached in the same part.
Once in Spain I had no difficulty at all, and in fact made myself very popular with the natives by telling most charming fortunes for them, and dancing the armadillo and opadildock with a verve which pleased them and surprised even myself.
It has so much verve and good spirit that I feel like patting him on the back, and "sicking him on," but Lord!
Then "The Flowers of Edinburgh" rang out with Caledonian verve in it and a mad seductive swing, and the guests streamed out to the middle of the floor.
The very fluency, copiousness, andverve of his language are impossible to a translator, at least in the early stages of a literature.
For Strauss was able to unloose his verve and fantasy completely in the construction of his edifices.
There was something of the boy about Leighton up to the very end, and in those last months much of the pathos of the boy who is known to be doomed, but who plays his game with just as much eager verve up to the end.
There is a certain gaiety and verve animating all this brisk movement in the fresh morning air.
And when the ham at last only too obviously reveals the force and verve of my attack, when the jam-pot is half emptied, I light my pipe with a sigh of deep satisfaction.
An actor with nothing but sense and judgment is apt to be cold; but an actor with nothing but verve and sensibility is crazy.
The English comic writers have more verve than taste.
When he left this scurvy ambassador-extraordinary to his fate aboard the ship, he exults that "the cross-winds held him in the Downs almost a seven-night before they would blow him over.
They are fond of his simple style, animated with verve and spice, thanks to which his work is accessible to every class of readers.
By some, indeed, his exaggerations were regarded as symptoms of mental alienation; and the originality of his verve did not succeed in giving a passport to the incoherence of his conceptions.
He found himself called upon to shake hands à l'anglais with this one and that, giving all and sundry his impressions of the perfidious Albion with a verve and neatness truly French.
On the other hand, the French hostess displays a tact and finesse amounting to genius in the selection and grouping of her guests, and, as a result, her dinner goes off with a verve which no amount of extraneous gorgeousness could achieve.
Apart from the effective situations, the well-treated story and verve with which the chief characters worked, there is no doubt that a great portion of the success was due to the splendid appearance of Tichatschek.
He plays with a verve and abandon that appeals to the European galleries while his droll humour and good nature make him a delightful opponent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
