0 great energy and enthusiasm:
She delivered her speech with tremendous wit and verve.
1 a lot of energy and enthusiasm:
In contrast, the recently completed library possesses a verve and zest which conveys a dynamism that many of the more established universities might hanker after.
These developments have been discussed by several other historians, but they are explored with subtlety and verve here.
With all the tumult and protest that daily lives were experiencing in the 1960s, the language teaching profession needed some spice and verve.
Some show no more verve and imagination than any neighbourhood service needs: a pharmacy is a pharmacy is a pharmacy.
She writes with verve and feeling, although her arguments are always rigorous and telling.
All this is riveting stuff, presented clearly and with verve.
In elections, he was an also-ran in all but oratorical verve.
It is a great pity that his writing skill and intellectual verve are not always matched by the precision and understanding associated with careful research.
