单词 | verve |
例句 | Effie, shining in a wig of metallic gold, lacks her usual verve. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He liked the verve of her bouffant wigs, the drawl of her native Mississippi, as well as the severe eyeglass frames that belied the warmth in her eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In this, the atmosphere, no matter how coarse, has a verve and an essential joviality that casts out morbidity. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The children eagerly copied the steps, and what they lacked in accuracy they made up for in verve. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Teddy was just six months old at that point, but it was already clear that he had more personality, more verve, than I ever would. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Don’t think, because we have no fancy bandstands or city parks, that we can’t celebrate Independence Day with as much verve as you do in the big city. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The young director Romain Gavras does not reinvent the comic caper in the French film “The World Is Yours,” but he revitalizes that genre with pop verve, goofy humor and visual sophistication. ‘The World Is Yours’ Review: Isabelle Adjani Revitalizes the Comic Caper 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z If anything, many seemed to summon extra verve and abandon to carry them through the homestretch of the run. New York City Ballet Wraps Up ‘Nutcracker’ Season 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z Many guest stars were drawn from the musical-theater world, and the production numbers were staged with verve. How ‘Cop Rock’ Called the Tune That Some Shows Still Dance To 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z In "Light Dance I," "Light Dance II" and "Light Dance III," which work as a single super-wide triptych, they're costumed performers, partially glimpsed among an abstract verve of horizontal shapes: spotlight, stage-curtain, shadows. 'Videowatercolors' play with time and space 2011-11-02T21:05:05Z I found myself marveling at the verve and wit of this great American storyteller, now 96. ArtsBeat: New Herman Wouk Novel, 'The Lawgiver,' Coming From Simon & Schuster 2012-04-09T14:00:20Z Stacy, whom I respected a great deal, for her wit and verve, was brave and bright and going to be just fine. Someone to hold me 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z After a poky 2011-12 season, the show’s restored verve seems to have energized its excellent cast. Mike Hale’s Top 12 Television Shows of 2013 2013-12-13T19:28:37Z And Woody’s wife, Kate played with memorable verve by June Squibb, “is based on my mother-in-law,” he said, after noting that that his own wife was in the audience and knew about the inspiration. The Carpetbagger: Write What You Know, Especially if It’s Difficult Family 2014-01-31T13:30:24Z All the young members of the cast bring verve, and funny, occasionally poignant detail to their performances. Review: ‘Ride the Cyclone,’ About Teenagers, and Angst, in Purgatory 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z It’s broad, sometimes gross comedy, delivered with verve. The Best TV Shows of 2016 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z On the reality-TV competition “Nashville Star,” she was a striver; then, on her first two major label albums, she was a dissenter, upending norms with verve and backbone. Review: Miranda Lambert Sings of What Comes After the Heartbreak 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The disciplined verve and compositional complexity of his best pictures is deeply satisfying, especially in “Secretariat,” which shows half a dozen African-American jockeys on their mounts galloping toward the viewer. Black history, humming heads and more: June in Seattle galleries 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z What the large and receptive audience got instead was a remarkably enjoyable "Messiah" with plenty of energy, strong soloists, and a Symphony Chorale that sang with zest and verve. Review: 'Messiah' at Benaroya features strong solos, magnificent music 2010-12-17T19:02:04Z There was comedy, tinged with regret, in the verve with which the orchestra performed the few hearty measures of the rustic dance before breaking off in mid-thought. Review: Mostly Mozart’s Opening Concert, With a Chopin Encore 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The sets of this “Nutcracker” possess humor and verve in an Edward-Gorey-adjacent fashion. Dinner at ‘The Nutcracker’: Our restaurant critic and dance/movie expert taste-test the Seattle holiday classic 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Even as she attacked the song with verve, she struggled to keep a hold on her pitch, but it repeatedly slipped out of her grasp. 'The Voice' recap: Teams Adam and Christina take their turn 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z This sympathetic approach allows Meacham to draw out Bush on the most emotional moments of his life and tell them with dramatic verve. Jon Meacham’s ‘Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z In live recordings of works by Ravel, Mendelssohn, Brahms and especially Haydn, these three musicians dance on a fizzy alchemy of melody and rhythmic verve. Trio con Brio Copenhagen: cultural connections 2012-01-13T23:07:04Z Here, she draws on conversations with two generations of black women to frame Hill as a progenitor of “black-girl magic”—that particular mixture of self-love and verve that revels in complexity instead of hiding it. What We Still Need from Lauryn Hill and Her "Miseducation" 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z That word best sums up Indiana Woodward, who sparkled all season with more than just her usual youthful verve and enthusiasm — witnessing her ever-growing depth has been a delight. A Farewell and the Promise of a New Future at City Ballet 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The five Imani players performed the music with charisma and verve. Review: An Orchestral Season That’s (Almost) Entirely Female 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z This openness is at odds with Cave’s reputation as a prickly, wild-eyed, indefatigable bandleader, armed with the verve of a hellfire-spitting preacher. The Brutality and Tenderness of Nick Cave’s Newsletters 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z He tried, he added, to match the energy and verve of the text, or, as he put it, “max the Berkoff.” The Orchestra Brawls in a ‘Beer and Pizza’ Oedipus Opera 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The beauty, poignancy and breathtaking verve of this production are the product of a unique solidarity between troupers of different eras. 'Shuffle On' delivers a powerful kick from Broadway's musical past 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z When it comes to curbing our enthusiasms, Kaplan’s achievement is to throw so much shade with so much verve. Foreign Policy From the Dark Side 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Sampling “Cher” and other shows recently making the rounds — “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,” “A Sign of the Times,” “Head Over Heels” — only the Go-Go’s confection, “Head Over Heels,” displayed real storytelling verve. Perspective | Are jukebox musicals like ‘The Cher Show’ dumbing down Broadway, or just giving us what we want? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Mr. King’s lurid, hurried production embraces the script’s verve, while denying it any real weight or consequence. Theater Review: ‘Fabulous Miss Marie’ Drinks and Dances at Castillo Theater 2014-05-07T21:36:15Z For fans of what you might loosely term cult viewing, it’s been a while since we had a drama with such verve and style. Utopia has been cancelled but its bold legacy will live on 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z He threw himself into his new coastal life and regained his energy and verve. ‘I went on a walk and returned to find my husband dead’ 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z In its verve and variety, the choreography demonstrates far more snap than, well, Elle's handbag which is usually so full of Chihuahua that the clasps are tragically redundant. 2010-01-14T14:28:00Z Ford's forte is delivering wordy, nuanced meditations on personal and political concerns with verve and aplomb. David Ford 2010-07-13T20:45:00Z And while the accompaniment of the five-man band sounds thin, Michael J. Bobbitt’s robust choreography offers up a commendable level of verve. ‘Carrie’ draws too little blood Split screens and underwater hallucinations keep the verve content high, as does the spectacle of four men applying — in slo-mo, to the “Blue Danube Waltz” — an unusual viscous topping to a pizza. REVIEW: Wetlands: A Schmutzy Comedy With an Adorable New Star 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The Bolshoi’s impetuous acting style perfectly caught the color and storytelling verve of Prokofiev’s score, which often sounds like the greatest film music ever written. Romeo (and Juliet), How Many Art Thou? 1 Ballet Score, Many Stagings 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z With encouragement from one of her managers, she took up rapping, and has released a pair of mixtapes that mold her off-the-cuff verve and improvised bon mots into something stickier. How Cardi B’s ‘Bodak Yellow’ Took Over the Summer 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z These are dense songs, and Ciara wiggles through them with verve, if not personality. Critic’s Notebook: Ciara, Not Quite at the Center of Her Newest Album 2013-07-10T20:25:20Z And 5 Live, with its extra channels, covered all the excitement, the tension, the obscure sports, the giddy crowds with verve and consummate skill. The best radio of 2012: Miranda Sawyer's choice 2012-12-15T23:30:01Z So there’s no knowing whether the show will get its verve on again after this middling start. Review: ‘Sherlock’ Returns, Tracking a Smasher of Thatcher Busts 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z And coleslaw, a companion to several dishes, including the satisfying buttermilk-brined fried chicken, is assembled a la minute and with pickled shallots, for maximum crunch and verve. America Eats Tavern’s home cooking is back, with barbecue in tow 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z With her usual verve Ms. Mapp created a platform that was particularly poignant for its revelatory references. Danspace Project Turns Choreographers Into Curators 2010-04-10T03:53:00Z Using a main palette of black and white, Small injects color into his illustrations at crucial points, adding both humor and verve. Animals roll out barrels of fun in new picture books 2012-03-17T03:54:53Z When it slices to the core of a classic text with wit and verve and a show-off’s delight, it’s doing what the company does best. Review: A Playful ‘Pygmalion’ From Bedlam? Bloody Likely 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z If necessary, he has the clout to shout louder than anyone else to ensure that Episode VII retains the vim and verve of the original trilogy. JJ Abrams is the perfect choice for Star Wars – may the Force be with him 2013-01-25T15:24:45Z Looking like Drew Barrymore drained of color and verve, former child star Fanning provides the fulcrum on which Night Moves pivots: an activist turned ethicist. REVIEW: Night Moves: Political Thriller at a Slow Boil 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Celebrities and citizens both dripped with new Negro refinement and verve. A Black Legacy, Wrapped Up in Fur 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z “It’s clear to me that Ben’s courage, verve and swagger are still deeply embedded in the Post,” he said. Sally Quinn throws Ben Bradlee one last A-list party The four approach their work with verve and humor. | 'Inside Nature?s Giants': ?Inside Nature?s Giants? on PBS - Review 2012-01-17T23:29:39Z This movie lacks the energy and verve of An Education, the coming-of-age drama that catapulted the British actress to an Oscar nomination last year. The Greatest: Susan Sarandon as Another Mad, Sad Mom 2010-04-02T09:20:00Z It’s clear from that film how La Haine’s verve and radicalism has remained a touchstone, even as banlieue film commercialised and broadened. How La Haine lit a fire under French society 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z Kristin Holland’s choreography doesn’t have all the snap and slink of the Fosse dances, but it’s dispatched with verve. Killers in lingerie: Village’s snazzy ‘Chicago’ 2013-05-23T21:19:28Z It’s tempting to imagine this material realized with the maniac verve of a film like James Wan’s “Malignant,” where the ridiculous verges on camp, instead of how Salky plays it: thuddingly literal and painfully dumb. ‘Intrusion’ Review: We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Beady Eye tracks such as The Roller are, it has to be said, shown up by the former bands' glories, but closing track Bring the Light matches their peaks for sheer verve at least. Beady Eye at Glastonbury 2013 – review 2013-06-28T13:34:00Z It is bright and lively, with verve and spirit. A $13 organic red wine with verve and spirit? Pour us a glass — or two. 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In Kittelberger’s “Ashes,” Osipova seemed to be absorbed in memory, successfully summoning the verve of youth with stomps and claps before rolling herself up in a rug. Review: In ‘Force of Nature,’ Natalia Osipova Is Absorbed in Memories 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z More, I wish this company danced “Agon” — and works of that caliber — with the same verve they bring to “Coming Together,” the same pleasure they find in “Return.” Review: Dance Theater of Harlem’s Return Has Warm Reception 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z This delightful work displays the instruments with runs requiring clarity and considerable agility, with verve, and in the second movement, with emotional declamatory style. Lincoln Center ensemble lets the cello be the star | Classical review 2013-05-08T17:59:35Z Mr. Cover and Kelley Curran, who enacts four characters with four different accents, manage the task with the most variety and verve, though Brad Heberlee works wonders with an absurd fake mustache. Review: ‘The Dingdong’ Offers Frothy Lingerie and Frisky Behavior 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z But movies should squeeze a little juice out of this pulp, find verve and fun in our limping race to elude mortality. After Earth: Will Smith & Son Play a Hunger Game 2013-05-30T16:22:40Z She sang and danced with verve, and the camera adored her. The Glory of Nina Mae McKinney, an Early Black Star in White Hollywood 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Artists who work outside the mainstream, and refuse to be bound by convention, are invariably fascinating, as much for their verve as for the work they produce. Dan Arbeid obituary 2010-11-22T18:24:00Z The book, he adds, is “written with verve, painted with broad strokes and dotted with memorable anecdotes and vivid quotations.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Now she is elbowing her way toward the reins with a verve and abandon that is unusual. Review: Francesca DiMattio, ‘Domestic Sculpture,’ at Salon 94 Bowery 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Those terms value theatricality, moral instruction and a variety of materials and objects — natural, artistic, industrial, found, made — employed with brutish verve. Art Review: A Spectacle With a Message 2010-11-19T06:45:00Z He is well cast as "Queen of Hearts" - not a maiden but a matron full of the positive, generous verve of fulfilment. Danny La Rue's Queen of Hearts: from the Guardian archive, 21 December 1972 2012-12-21T07:30:00Z He discusses, for example, the changing role of media, and gossips with equal and self-deprecating verve about the wounded egos of poorly reviewed chefs, the idiosyncrasies of other critics and his own folly. Who’s in the Kitchen: A Quartet of Culinary Narratives 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Rachel Johnson neatly intertwines these two plots with panache and verve. Winter Games by Rachel Johnson – review 2013-03-24T11:00:01Z But The King's Speech proves there's fizzing life in old-school British period dramas – it's acted and directed with such sweep, verve, darting lightness. The King's Speech ? review 2011-01-06T15:00:00Z After its somewhat stilted start, the novel kicks into gear, with Mr. Franzen writing with gathering assurance and verve. Review: In ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen Hits a New Octave 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Nicks admired Joplin’s verve, Grace Slick’s vocal soaring and Hendrix’s fringe-and-scarf style of clothing, which she soon emulated. Review | Stevie Nicks: A story of big music, big egos and big hair 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z In the “Overture to ‘West Side Story’ ” and especially the “Three Dance Episodes from ‘On the Town,’ ” the orchestra played with verve and a willingness to get dirty, if not always with absolute precision. Review | Ross emphasizes the new and the forgotten with Alexandria Symphony 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Dylan is in control of his material and his audience, but there is no spontaneity and little verve. The sadism, compassion and sheer liberated joy of “Like a Rolling Stone” 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Sometimes, attempts to channel the prosecutorial verve of the late “60 Minutes” legend Mike Wallace “turn into hot air,” Lukasiewicz added, generating “more heat than light.” ‘Stop doing that, or this interview will end’: How the smackdown took over cable news in 2020 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z The production begins with great disorienting verve, while the audience is still waiting outside. ‘The Adults’ and ‘99 Breakups’ at the FringeArts Festival in Philadelphia 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Judy Moody's spirited personality and tomboy verve have made the fictional third grader a staple with the elementary school set. Judy Moody: A Total Bummer 2011-06-10T18:45:00Z Yet I was disappointed that Marciniak’s Salzburg Festival debut lacked the freshness and verve of her earlier productions. At Salzburg Festival, Directing Slow and Fast 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z He would become a leading advocate of abstract expressionism in the UK, with his later works animated by lively brushstrokes executed with an almost casual verve. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z "The verve and energy of the company," he notes between tokes on the Telegraph's staff bong, "is irresistible; the vitality of Karole Armitage's turbo-charged and often highly erotic choreography genuinely thrilling." What to say about ... Hair 2010-04-15T16:10:00Z With knowledgeable verve that brings to mind “Frankly, My Dear,” Molly Haskell’s superb monograph on “Gone With the Wind,” Mr. Wasson approaches his subject from many angles. Books of The Times: ?Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.? by Sam Wasson 2010-06-13T22:07:00Z Here's a ranking of solos, in order of swagger and verve. ArtsBeat: Guitar Solos Help Close Rolling Stones Tour 2012-12-16T22:15:54Z And he never ceased to write with the verve of a young and vital mind. An Appraisal: Elmore Leonard: A Man of Few, Yet Perfect, Words 2013-08-21T21:31:56Z From Fairchild, whose picture is featured in posters outside Lincoln Center and on the Playbill cover, there is impeccable verve and seeming delight. Winter Season at City Ballet: ‘Now Is the Time for a New Generation’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z While the band are treating their back catalogue with the respect it deserves, playing with a verve and professionalism that they've seldom shown before, they're slightly adrift from each other and the audience. The Libertines 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z In the song’s video, Choppa wields an improbably long gun, but he also dances with athletic verve and comic timing. How Rap’s Class of 2019 Lives and Dies by the Meme 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z She has just that youthful verve that the movies will need when they start talking, and sassy-mouthed comedies replace some of the sentimental melodramas of the silent era. The Artist: A 'Silent' Film to Sing About 2011-11-22T15:30:45Z But they also come at us with cartoonish verve, like giant balloons, billiard balls or slices of huge planets. The Great Beginning of Jules Olitski 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z The judges said: "This is a novel that fizzes throughout with stylistic verve, each chapter felt to us like a fresh adventure in language and perception." Man Booker Prize 2013: At a glance 2013-09-11T11:13:45Z She’s a real dancer, and she also gets the show’s wry verve. Review | How ‘Chicago’ became the musical for every American decade, for all time 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z But in Meacham’s telling, Bush’s lack of verve becomes his greatest asset. Top 10 Nonfiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Oscar organizers are trying to inject more verve into a show whose awards generally play out by the numbers. Does Oscar crown await Affleck's 'Argo?' 2013-02-21T16:23:11Z Their "What the hell, let's try it!" confidence is most vividly expressed in musical numbers that casually blur the boundaries between "reality" and "fantasy" with retro verve. Why "Glee" is this century's "Twin Peaks" 2010-06-08T17:10:00Z It needs to be a film-maker with vision and verve who understands how to work within set guidelines, a film-maker with courage but little in the way of ego. Why does Star Wars keep losing its directors? 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Great Britain is "written with real verve" by playwright Richard Bean and is "blessedly funny", according to The Guardian's four-star review. Warm reception for hacking play 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Compositional verve and common sense are often at exhilarating odds in Sarah McRae Morton’s work. Sarah McRae Morton’s painterly talents serve her vivid dreamscapes well 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z She made some tweaks; her dancers peeled away from the line with more refinement but no less verve. A Ballerina Steps Out — as a Choreographer 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Lanny Mitchell, who narrated, expertly expressed the poetry’s rhythms; Ms. Stoops played with a loose, impulsive verve that suggested improvisation. Music Review: Da Capo Chamber Players at Merkin Concert Hall 2013-02-03T20:17:59Z So I’m pleased to report that “Hamilton” has transferred to Hamburg with its verve, ingenuity, idealism and courage intact. Review: ‘Hamilton’ in German? It’s a Thrill. 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z “The Walking Dead” has been lacking in the verve department, and in Negan it seems to have found some. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Premiere: Negan’s Victim Is Revealed 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z The author, a partner in the Brooklyn Kitchen, also provides vinegar lore and plenty of recipes for food and drinks that depend on vinegar for their verve. A Guide to Making Vinegars 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z The delicate verve of its ink-and-color-on-silk composition vividly conveys its two lovers’ sense of drifting in a watery illicit limbo. Two group shows at Seattle Art Museum worth checking out 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z On “Bleed Red” he sings with verve about the value of forgiveness. New Music 2011-06-06T23:12:56Z There aren’t likely to be many more bracing displays of vocal verve in an arena setting this year, or any other. Review: Lady Gaga, the Flashy Provocateur, Battles Lady Gaga, the Raw Voice 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Photograph: James Penlidis Photography Whether we become what we are through our genes or through our experiences in life is the old chestnut that this debut novelist tackles with refreshing originality, wit and verve. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion – review 2013-04-28T08:59:01Z Simon Eliot, co-curator at the museum and specialist in 19th century books, said: “He was able to focus attention on Christmas and give it a sort of identity and verve which it had lacked.” World's first printed Christmas card goes on display at Dickens museum 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Fincher manages to impart some cinematic verve to the sedentary application of nerd power; the movie raises it to seraphic levels. David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Thanks Very Much, But You Really Didn't Have To 2011-12-20T15:00:53Z In front of rapt nightclub audiences, when she sang with husky, quavering verve, or turned interstitial monologues into febrile, secular sermons, she was exhibiting a kind of radical transparency. Jackie Shane, a Transgender Soul Pioneer, Re-emerges After Four Decades 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z But with "Idol" growing staler and more listless by the week, I'm thrilled to see a would-be usurper storm in with verve and fresh ideas. Why "The Voice" deserves to topple "Idol" 2011-05-04T13:05:00Z He would carry out his tasks with verve, even if the outcome was not what was intended. Andrew Sachs, Hapless Waiter on the BBC Sitcom ‘Fawlty Towers,’ Dies at 86 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Sadly, the visual verve isn't quite enough to compensate for the unconvincing shooting. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days 2010-08-17T16:05:00Z He dances big, with a perpetually sunny verve. What Does an Angel See in Her Future? Maybe a Sugarplum Fairy. 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z These are all episodes teeming with action and drama that are difficult to summarise in a coherent way, but the authors do the job with verve, while still finding space for insightful analysis. A People's History of London by John Rees and Lindsey German – review 2012-06-22T21:55:20Z Even so, in his overall encapsulation of Cyrano's swagger, ebullience, and creative verve, it is fair to say that Rostand's depiction was very much on the nose. Beyond Cyrano de Bergerac’s nose – the real man behind the swashbuckling hero 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z The finale grooved with verve, punctuated by howling double-stops in the violin. Review | Violinist Yevgeny Kutik’s debut at the Kennedy Center has its highlights, and its lowlights 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z An avuncular Martin fielded a query about his penchant for offing much-loved characters with characteristic verve: "I mourn all the characters as I kill them," he said. Game of Thrones: we should go out with a dance number, says Dinklage 2011-07-22T09:13:22Z Why, you might ask, does someone of her verve and achievement, financially independent, someone who did so much for the cause of sexual self-realisation, only fall for married men? Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-10-12T21:55:03Z To spend a day in this setting, which the director, Jordana Williams, and her designers realize with a lot of verve and little cash, is to commit, helplessly and happily, to Mr. Rogers’s ingenious neighborhood. Review: In ‘The Honeycomb Trilogy,’ a Family Confronts Invading Apian Overlords 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Trainor has somehow infused new energy and verve to old chestnuts. Get in the holiday mood with Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z But even on their own the characters lack verve, and Soderbergh seems ambivalent to them. ‘Let Them All Talk’ Review: That Ship Has Sailed 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The work had verve and drive, but words really were his thing. Art Review: Robert Duncan and Jess, and Their Wonderland of Art 2014-01-16T22:59:26Z The film’s rejiggered timeline is a little hard to follow, but the climax swings for the fences and shows an unashamed verve for tale-telling that warms the cockles. ‘Bull’ Review: Vengeance Is His 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z She pushes him to pursue the program, while also attempting to reconnect Louis with his son, all with a tremendous amount of verve and compassion. Netflix's sweet "Uncorked" is a father-son drama with earthy notes 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Had the actual detonation been recorded, it would have livened up a movie singularly lacking in rock-doc unpredictability and verve. Review: ‘Can’t Stand Losing You,’ Andy Summers’s Version of the Police 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z A remarkable first book written with verve and an eye for telling detail. High fliers 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z This debut collection explores and celebrates uncertain and transitory moments of gender identity with humor and verve. Newly Published, From Rainbow Cocktails to Magical Beasts 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z She's selfish and cynical, only looking out for herself, but at least she goes about her crimes with some verve and style. Review: Batman series ends as epic letdown 2012-07-16T18:40:09Z As Jeremy, the white guy assumed to be terrible at hoops, Jack Harlow, in his film debut, lacks the sly goofball verve that Woody Harrelson exhibited in the original. In "White Men Can't Jump" remake, Sinqua Walls outshines Wesley Snipes' original basketball hustler 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z Such pictures may not be subversive, but their verve transcends plain geometry. Not all right angles in ‘Geometrix: Line, Form, Subversion’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The way they’re painted suits their subjects: with a loose, expressionistic verve. Tuning Out Digital Buzz, for an Intimate Communion With Art 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z But that does not mean that extravagant tentpole film-making, with the kind of synapse-searing effects that only cinemas are capable of showing off in their full glory, cannot be delivered with verve and originality. Could Passengers be the next Avatar, or will it disappear into a black hole? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Peled launched into the robust opening with great verve, and slipped into the sweet moments that the composer wrote to signify his meeting with his wife, Clara. Chamber-music fest opens Eastside concerts 2011-08-04T20:01:09Z He drew some subtly fined-away phrases from the orchestra, along with irresistible verve and delicacy in fast and slow music alike. Carlos Kalmar leads SSO in fresh take on Beethoven 2013-12-29T19:43:19Z One is left craving the verve and originality of her earlier novels and wondering just what it was about this story that made her want to write it in the first place. Habits of the House by Fay Weldon – review 2012-08-03T21:55:02Z But as the perspective shifts in the second chapter from Jamal’s to Saba’s, explaining the circumstances of how her family ended up in the camp, the story loses some of its earlier momentum and verve. In This Novel of Exile, Sulaiman Addonia Writes From Experience 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Ferreira is flamboyantly wounded on this album — the further down she’s trodden, the more majestic the music, which sparkles with 1980s verve and seethes with 1990s rage. Drake, Kanye West and Ashley Monroe 2013-12-13T18:32:49Z Still, in early scenes, he must do a lot of fancy, ardent singing, and Mr. Polenzani embraced the challenge, singing with verve, crispness and poignancy. Music Review: ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Metropolitan, With Joyce DiDonato 2013-01-02T00:03:57Z The clothes, says Lord & Taylor’s Solomon, never lost any of their verve: “They retain that girly, feminine sensibility, but always with a little bit of the rebel.” Betsey Johnson has never run with the fashion elite. That’s why she’s endured. 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z To watch Ms. Truscott unmask these cultural norms, with verve and wit and several beers, is to feel elated and sad and angry all at once. Review: ‘Asking for It’ Uses Wit to Tackle Cultural Norms About Rape 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z “Sorry to Bother You” is a Molotov cocktail in movie form, an explosive introduction to the brain of Boots Riley, who blends Michel Gondry’s playfulness with Spike Lee’s verve. Is Hollywood ready for the brilliant weirdness of Lakeith Stanfield? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z With vim and verve he walloped the curve From Texas to Duluth, Which is no small task, and I rise to ask; Was there ever a guy like Ruth? Review: Books About Babe Ruth 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The Comédie-Française’s virtual programming has evolved over the past year as regulations changed, and this 341-year-old grande dame has exhibited enviable verve. Dark. Messy. Assaultive. Inscrutable. Even From Your Couch. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Hancock realizes these scenes, of the McDonalds’ ideas coming to life, with an imaginative verve involving clever effects. “The Founder”: A Fast-Food Visionary on Shaky Moral Ground 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z In this collection of his writing he shows as much clarity and verve in articulating his approach to design as in the wealth of examples that illustrate the text. Patrick Cramsie's top 10 graphic design books 2010-08-04T12:09:00Z It is a character marked by high-octane verve, yet never lacking in subtlety or warmth. Juilliard String Quartet’s artistry is undimmed | Classical review 2013-02-07T17:37:58Z But I do miss the bon vivant Kingslayer, the guy who scared everyone and would say and do terrible things, “for love” and otherwise, with buccaneering verve. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: Slicing and Dicing ‘Two Swords’ 2014-04-07T02:00:52Z Also, I empathize with Margot when she says that it was not just Quin’s kindness to her but his verve, his ridiculous humor, and his actual dirtiness that revived her when she was feeling down. Mary Gaitskill on the Power of Fiction for Examining #MeToo 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z The former Beatle’s instincts were right on target: round two had much more verve. Sir Paul, Katy Perry Trade Songwriting Tips 2013-10-18T14:44:50Z It is written with great verve and wisdom by someone who has closely and thoughtfully detailed his own plight as well as the journey out of it. Kurt Eichenwald’s Memoir of a ‘Mind Unraveled’ 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z The gym was where the hotel’s verve flagged. On a Famous Street, an Austin Hotel Builds a Buzzy Scene 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z It’s another example of Franciacorta that packs verve and excitement near champagne levels at a more affordable price. This $11 Bordeaux begs for pizza or burgers and will put a smile on your face 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z That said, Keya is pretty clever, and Bhatt invests her performance with some verve, even making her motivations ambiguous as she bonds with Rachel in a few scenes late in the film. "Heart of Stone" stars Gal Gadot in a lackluster Europudding action flick 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Ford is in his element – delightful, energetic, funny, brash and fully Han, bantering with Chewie and everyone with the same verve he showed nearly 40 years ago. The First Reviews For 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Are Here 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z However the musical, which unfolds in one act, loses satirical snap and some verve as the warm relationship between the explorer and his ardent admirer veers toward the mawkish. ‘Ernest Shackleton Loves Me’: a modern expedition to romance 2014-04-21T23:56:15Z But this instability is a great part of their verve and attraction. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Alien encounters are handled with more verve in Doctor Who. TV review: The First Men In The Moon 2010-10-19T22:00:00Z Whatever the piece may finally lack in originality, it more than makes up for in theatrical wit and verve. Seven Year Twitch – review 2013-05-28T17:11:53Z It’s a passionate, lively work, and the musicians played it with verve, adding the contrast with the much gentler third movement. Chamber-music society magic continues in winter fest opening | Classical review 2014-01-25T18:53:43Z Where this “Gatsby” fails, it at least does so with imaginative and verve; where it succeeds, it finds poetry. Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Great Gatsby’ does justice to a great book 2013-05-08T21:27:20Z But they are also lively and musical exhibitions of Prohibition-era verve, likely to enchant listeners as well as dancers. Seattle guitarist revives work of vintage Seattle composer | Concert preview 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Staged with verve by David Gassner, "99 Layoffs" isn't tied to the current recession. '99 Layoffs' lays on a lot of laughs 2012-08-10T19:51:06Z At times, the performance crackled with the verve of the album, as on the jubilant 2-step of “Lost & Found” or the mournful, decaying soul of “Your Drums, Your Love.” Music Review: AlunaGeorge Makes Its New York Debut 2013-09-06T21:09:50Z From any distance, on any occasion, Django can shoot with ruthless accuracy and verve, and afterwards permits himself a grin of pleasure. Django Unchained – review 2013-01-17T15:29:01Z Yes, it is absurd that all the men are wearing spacesuits or typical high fantasy gowns, but she wears her various skintight, fabric-light outfits with confidence and verve. My streaming gem: why you should watch Starcrash 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby A classic which brought into British sports reporting some of the style and verve already part of American sports writing. Mihir Bose's top 10 football books 2010-06-09T13:50:00Z They settled into life in Palo Alto, Calif. Ms. Chen pursued a newfound love of rock climbing and the outdoors with her characteristic verve and Mr. Cugini learned how to cook. He Said (I Do), She Said (I Do) 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z For those wondering about her longevity, the directors of “RBG” say they were impressed by her verve and intellectual sharpness. Ninja Supreme Court Justice: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Fun With Fame 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z By the end of the session, the kids played with a lot more verve. LA takes baton as flagship for youth orchestras 2011-11-13T16:03:17Z But Bird’s knowing verve can’t camouflage the downtime between action scenes. Mission: Impossible 4: Cruise Control 2011-12-16T21:29:31Z But it was the players’ verve that marked the night. Review | In NSO opener, Noseda shows you don’t have to dumb down to have fun 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z The lack of verve was all the more surprising because in some ways this version was a revival, based strongly on a Martinoty production that premiered 13 years ago in Paris. Mozart opera in Vienna is a mixed bag 2011-02-22T13:30:08Z His resonant voice and irascible verve made him a natural for parts as authority figures, and he was frequently called upon to play judges, lawmen and military officers. 'M*A*S*H' star Harry Morgan dies at 96 2011-12-07T17:54:00Z The verve and scope of storylines pays compliment to the female imagination. Orange prize shortlist shows women's writing in 'rude health' 2011-04-12T09:05:08Z Gurrumul: This celebration of the musician's life and music at Sydney Opera House had drama and verve. Gurrumul at Vivid Live 2013 – review 2013-05-29T00:41:49Z A steadfast romance anchors this tale, but everything roundabout gambols with verve. Review | The familial irritation in ‘Gulf View Drive’ is likely to strike a chord with every viewer 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The level of dancing in the “Raymonda” was extraordinarily high at both performances, with virtuoso coloratura made musically acute and danced with full-out verve. Review: Miami City Ballet in ‘Heatscape,’ a Fleeting Chase of Romance 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z He doesn't do all of this with intricacy, but all of it has verve and conviction. Anne Boleyn; Danton's Death; The Prince of Homburg 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z For men, childish or cruel behavior is often not just excused, but lauded—held as evidence of passion, vision, verve. Ryan Adams and the Perils of the Rock-Genius Myth 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z The battles, especially those in which Britain was involved, are described at considerable length, with a good deal of verve, and very much from the British side. The Savage Storm by David Andress - review 2012-12-06T10:00:01Z The best scene in the book, the fabulous Black and White Ball told from the viewpoints of various guests, displays Benjamin’s wit and verve. ‘The Swans of Fifth Avenue’ review: Would you trust Truman Capote? 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Four other women deliver the many tableaus and dramatic ensembles with verve. Dance Review: Hindu Mythology Comes to Life on the Streets of New York 2011-08-21T22:23:13Z The songs, and the mood and verve and expertise, not the play, are the thing; and in all these aspects, Merrily sings. A Sondheim Musical Rolls Back to Life 2012-02-15T16:40:10Z “Never. Mr. Leigh’s wry and magnanimous intelligence keeps ‘Secrets & Lies’ determinedly unsentimental, helped immeasurably by Cynthia’s fine, tough resilience and idiomatic verve.” What’s on TV Friday 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Other researchers have suggested that we are preternaturally wired to take risks, a quality that I tend to associate with entrepreneurial verve. Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Her approach to cadenzas and other solo passages is imaginative and thoughtful, and Mr. Antonini and his band supply a freshness and verve that match hers. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z It’s the understated yet lengthy creation of a singular vision, a place that evokes memory and comfort yet pushes food to a happier, more enticing place with considerable wit and verve. Behold the humble Superiority Burger, the rage of NYC 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z The verve of Versace — what the designer called “the traditions of couture with the daring of contemporary life” — is important in solidifying the image of the house. Fashion Review: At Versace, Grace Jones Meets Lady Gaga 2014-01-20T10:07:39Z More widely available are the wines from Kaapzicht, in Stellenbosch, including a delicious and vibrant red blend resplendent in New World verve aptly called Kaleidoscope, and a more restrained, though no less delicious, chenin blanc. South African wine may not be the next big thing, but it deserves to be 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z It mapped out Holmes’ mental machinations with verve and integrity. Sherlock is slowly and perversely morphing into Bond. This cannot stand 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z On the screen, delivered with verve by the actor Jeffrey Wright, it reaches even greater heights of both oddity and emotion. Watch Jeffrey Wright Give a Rousing Speech in ‘Asteroid City’ 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The book is illustrated with verve by Loren Long. Kids' gifts: Special books that offer hours of delight 2010-12-18T01:29:24Z But his writing is unpolished and overly literal; it lacks verve. 'Beatrice and Virgil': Yann Martel's haunting fable of humans, animals and violence 2010-04-14T21:26:00Z Two adroit players with verve to spare, the bassist Mr. Douglas and the drummer Mr. Blake make a potent rhythm section. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Among the largest works he has ever made, the Chamberlain sculptures at Gagosian all incorporate his signature crushed car bodies, fashioned with tremendous compositional variety and verve, and his usual unerring color sense. Art Review: Sculpture in High Relief 2011-05-19T22:00:20Z I can’t say I swam any faster, but I certainly swam with more verve. Does This Swimsuit Make Me Look Fat? 2011-06-08T20:34:03Z That book “has verve and a stimulating audacity,” Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in a review in The Times. Michael Thomas, Writer and Bête Noire of the Moneyed Class, Dies at 85 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z The musicians dove into “Yearning: A Sweet Torture” with operatic verve. Taipei Symphony makes Strathmore debut with pride and passion 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z “Switch” is directed with all the verve of a corporate training video, so even the most uncomfortable moments don’t quite sting. Review: ‘Seven Year Switch’ Re-Pairs Couples for Marriage Repair 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Creative director Sarah Burton gave them new verve.” | Umit Benan Wins! 2011-01-19T21:51:28Z The Sisters’ comic verve sent messages of solidarity and cheer from the home front to the war front. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Citrus juices amplify the acidity in the assertive marinade, with dried apricots and green olives contributing their sweet and sour notes to a dish with real verve. 5 Fresh Seder Dishes You’ll Want to Make All the Time 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Grann, a New Yorker staff writer and the author of “Killers of the Flower Moon” and other books, narrates this story with plenty of verve. 11 New Books Coming in April 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Ed Sullivan, both in suits, jump with button-down aplomb and surprising verve. Last Chance: Philippe Halsman?s Jumpers at Laurence Miller 2010-05-23T23:30:00Z Though “Portals” goes a little slack near the end, the structuring of its moving parts and its high level of invention, continuing behind the scrims and spilling through the gap, matched Ethel’s verve. Dance Review: Dusan Tynek Dance - Review 2011-11-04T22:32:48Z That book, despite its subject, was written with a verve and humanity that are absent from “The Sacrifice.” Book review: ‘The Sacrifice,’ by Joyce Carol Oates, inspired by Tawana Brawley case 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z In fact, well traveled though it might be, the show still has verve to spare. Review | ‘The Wizard of Hip’ has energy to spare in lively MetroStage production 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z All four musicians dug in energetically, rendering the interpretation notable for both its gritty verve and lyrical finesse. Music in Review 2011-04-06T23:27:11Z Wood, a year after her memorable turn in West Side Story, is great here: she lets us see that beneath the verve and vitality of her stage persona are great reservoirs of sadness and desperation. Naked Ambition: Top 10 Memorable Movie Strippers 2012-06-29T12:00:19Z "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel" is an intriguing portrait of a true original; you only wish the movie had half the color and verve of its subject. 'Diana Vreeland' is no showstopper but still a pleasure to watch 2012-10-18T20:15:10Z As she belted them with verve and gusto, what you heard was the same eerie sound-alike impression of somebody else that Frank Sinatra Jr. brings to his father’s catalog. Music Review: Looking for the Gal That Got Away? 2011-03-13T21:49:04Z Shows like “Jericho,” “Vanished,” “Kidnapped,” “The Nine” and “FlashForward” also began with great style and suspenseful verve, and later fell short. | 'Persons Unknown': In New NBC Drama, Guests Check In but Don?t Check Out 2010-06-06T22:11:00Z The intricate compositions are intriguing, but the most striking aspect of these artworks is the sheer verve of the freely applied ink. Review | In the galleries: Finding inspiration in a mythical herb 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z The Russian leader answered through a translator, making entirely impossible to maintain the verve of regular conversation. Megyn Kelly Needs to Bring More Fox to NBC 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Though the three-dimensionality of ballet is among its assets, and though this year alone I’ve seen four of the world’s five foremost ballet companies, none of them communicate physical multi-directionality with such verve. Nivedha Ramalingam Brings Bharatanatyam to Drive East 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z As the story gets darker over the years, the series loses some of its verve, and it starts to feel like a forced march through the two stars’ movie and TV catalogs. Review: Newman and Woodward, Mr. and Mrs. Movie Star 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z In the same company’s November season he took the lead male role in Balanchine’s “Source” as well as the Harlequin in “La Sonnambula” with irresistible verve. Opening Doors And Reaching New Heights 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z Ross writes throughout with such juice and verve that she can be forgiven for her novel’s occasional cloudiness and excesses. Review | ‘Popisho’ imagines a magical realm teeming with memorable characters 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z And while her voice might not be an exact match, she captures Garland’s spirit and verve. New this week: ‘Enola Holmes,’ Public Enemy and Bonnaroo 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Instead, “Galileo’s Middle Finger” offers a trench-level account of several hot scientific controversies from the past 30 years, told with the page-turning verve of an exposé. “Galileo’s Middle Finger”: When scholars and activists clash over controversial research, we all lose 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z The closest she came to frisson, to sass, to authority, to verve came a little after the halfway point of the set. At the Super Bowl, Rihanna Returns to Music, Briefly 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z Improvisation is necessary, from hitchhiking to nudging the doorman for favors, but Julie — given anxious verve by the always-magnetic Calamy — isn’t a shameless hustler so much as she is acting sheepishly out of necessity. ‘Full Time’ Review: No Rest for the Working Girl 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Jarnow himself was too young to experience the sixties firsthand, but this distance lends his investigation a kind of innocent verve. The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z She’s also the character that readers naturally identify with—a creature of verve, toughness, minor deception. “The Westing Game,” a Tribute to Labor That Became a Dark Comedy of American Capitalism 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z But despite the verve and ingenuity, this evening is ultimately pretty exhausting. ‘October in the Chair and Other Fragile Things’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Webb built her list with verve and determination. So Much to Tell by Valerie Grove 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z It’s in the verve of life and depth of character that “Wheel” is a few revolutions behind. Review: This ‘Wheel of Time’ Goes Nowhere Fast 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The lead singer Greg Barnett sings of the king he once was — “Lost in a picture frame/The way my body used to behave” — with both longing and residual verve. The Playlist: Barack Obama’s Summery Playlists and Green Day’s Fiery Return 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z The verve and abandon of their fast and furious dancing made white versions look tame. In Savion Glover’s ‘Shuffle Along,’ Tap’s Reach Has Its Limits 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Yet the verve with which they throw themselves into Jean-Paul Sartre’s parable proves infectious. ‘No Exit’: Ready for your close-up 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Restrained but never tentative, remote yet enormously affecting, the movie’s evocation of artistic compulsion is accomplished with confidence and verve. Review: ‘Eden,’ a D.J.’s Passion for Electronic Music, by Mia Hansen-Love 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The orchestra, in its final concert of the Wyckoff Masterworks season, played with vitality, verve and precision, many of them with solos or as a section in a prominent part. At SSO, remarkable Wagner, majestic Saint-Saëns 2013-06-28T19:54:33Z Compositional verve and common sense are often at exhilarating odds in Morton’s work. Sarah McRae Morton’s painterly talents serve her vivid dreamscapes well 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Erica Pereira’s slightly pinched Butterfly needed more verve; she always seemed to be lagging. Balanchine’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Modern Caesarea is a miracle of Israeli verve, nerve and ingenuity. Herod the Great’s Israel 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z And this Alice, despite its wit and verve, never finds a clear narrative. Scottish Ballet Alice ? review 2011-04-13T18:01:01Z It’s a sly comparison that befits Willems, who matches the verve of Dr. Seuss and empathy of Mister Rogers with his own contemporary sensibility. Uninvited Pigeon invades author Mo Willems’ TV special 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z She conveys, with great energy and verve, the glory and danger of its missions — from Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, on through the final flights of the space shuttle. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z A leading man with the verve and range of the most expert character actor, he’s more than comfortable in the mode of a big-screen alchemist, creating brooding, economical titans of cinema from limited raw materials. Tom Hardy's casting as Venom is a masterstroke for Sony's superhero universe 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z It is an accomplished debut with pace, verve and black humour. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z Is there any wonder he’s approaching his big night with less and less verve? ‘Butter’ Review: High-Stakes Popularity 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z But he drives like a stunt man, careening through the Los Angeles streets with force and verve. "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" shows off Quentin Tarantino's best and worst moves 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z What they lacked in genuine ballroom technique they made up in verve and precision. Rumba 101 With Two Ballet Pros 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Later in the year, Tron: Legacy proved that supremely slick and shiny CGI does not a great movie make: the eye candy was there for all to see, but the spirit and verve was lacking. Week in geek's best films of 2010 2010-12-31T14:26:37Z Certainly Stevenson’s novels and stories exhibit extraordinary verve, whether depicting many-sided characters, richly atmospheric settings or political history. Review | Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ is not just an adventure tale, it’s a timely novel about politics and dissent 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z In its robust middle age the festival inhabits that paradox with impressive verve and grace. Critic’s Notebook: New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center 2012-09-27T22:17:58Z The effect of this inclusiveness is a feeling of amazing warmth and camaraderie, at its most compelling during the film’s many original musical numbers, which are staged and shot with verve. ‘Best Summer Ever’ Review: Not Just Another Song and Dance 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Finally, mix in some thyme and chives for herbal depth and a big squeeze of fresh lemon juice for verve. Mac and Cheese Eats Its Vegetables 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z It was part of a campaign by Radius, the division of the Weinstein Company that distributed that documentary about backup singers, to inject some more verve into the movie’s chances with Academy members. The Carpetbagger: Trying to Sing Their Way to the Oscars 2014-01-02T17:00:43Z She comes from a less exalted family — her father owns a small trucking company — and she is played by Lady Gaga with the verve of an Anna Magnani avatar in a Super Mario video game. ‘House of Gucci’ Review: Murder, Italian-Style 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Garcia sings with muscle and verve, even though her voice remains wide-eyed and never approaches menace. The Playlist: Miranda Lambert Bounces Back and Michelle Obama Sings the Hits 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z His voice is robust and agile, and he dispatched the Italian patter with verve and style. Music Review: Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony in Central Park 2010-07-14T23:05:00Z And yet the mix-and-match perfection of the store’s selection lacked verve. | Epaulet: At Epaulet in Brooklyn, Clothing Meets Detail 2010-04-28T16:02:00Z The ensemble attacked it all with forthright commitment and verve. Scottish Ensemble – review 2013-06-11T12:51:42Z A born actor, he sang with verve and looked in his element, dressed in a well-tailored suit, exuding entitlement. ‘Don Giovanni’ Revival by the Paris National Opera 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z With cunning and verve, Mr Baram brings these virtuosi of the lie together in Brest-Litovsk as the sham alliance between their tyrants collapses. Delusion chronicle 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z There are moments, especially in the first two tales, that conjure a maniacal Chaplinesque verve. | 'Tales From the Golden Age': ?Tales From the Golden Age? - Review 2011-08-25T23:16:18Z It is written with his usual verve, powered by exasperation … But his life remains a conundrum. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-11-09T22:55:10Z And three elaborate charts enlarged and transferred to walls map the creative, culinary and gastronomical process with the inspirational verve of a Joseph Beuys blackboard. Art Review: ‘Ferran Adrià’ Opens at the Drawing Center 2014-02-13T23:42:17Z Clever cookbooks with a limited number of ingredients per recipe are not new, but this one from the chef Jamie Oliver is notable for its ease and verve. Shortcut Cooking From Jamie Oliver 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Casey and Young sing the title tune with verve, flair and simplicity — a pair of cards merrily commenting on the tense state between men and women. A lively ‘Guys and Dolls’ that’s easy on the eyes and the ears 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z In the Before Times, I could sometimes clock the velocity and verve of my nightlife by how frequently I intersected with him speeding to some event along the Williamsburg waterfront bike path. Bicycle Diaries: Cruising With the ‘American Utopia’ Family 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z When a wild-haired Michael Shannon turns up to chew the scenery and kill people in the last act, he injects the film with some verve. Brad Pitt hops aboard the ridiculous, rollicking "Bullet Train" packed with gleefully violent stars 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z She has the slapstick verve of the “Broad City” chicks; she also has the brass to delve into the true misery of Andy Daly’s “Review.” Maria Bamford’s Melancholic, Hallucinogenic, and Very Funny “Lady Dynamite” 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z But “Deacon King Kong” reads like he’s tapped a whole fresh seam of inspiration and verve. James McBride’s ‘Deacon King Kong’ Is a Supercharged Urban Farce Lit Up by Thunderbolts of Rage 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z That Pup renders both goofy internal conflict and frustrating external tension with similar verve is part of its charm, but listen closely to Mr. Babcock, and it’s clear where his real enemies lie. Up North, Pup Makes Freshly Mutating Punk 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Among the early adopters of this trend, probably no one is applying more verve to the conceit than the members of the Drunk Shakespeare Society. Review: ‘Drunk Shakespeare,’ Where the Tipsy and the Sober Take Liberties 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Elle Fanning plays Amy-Jo with less verve than she displayed in her comparable role as a radical’s daughter in “Ginger & Rosa.” ‘Low Down,’ on Growing Up With Joe Albany 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z It crashes from first meetings to breakthrough gigs to infamous incidents with a woozy verve. Readers' panel: what's the best music biopic? 2012-06-15T11:43:49Z His boundless energy, manic comic verve and overall brilliant showmanship were more responsible than any other single factor for making that film into a classic. Disney's live-action "Aladdin": Wish for it to be over 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z He performs his nasty work with verve, not only because he’s fired a lot of movie guns, but also because he brings the memory of his great roles to every part. | 'Harry Brown': Michael Caine as Gangster-Shooting Vigilante 2010-04-29T23:04:00Z The first extract was the opening of Amis's as yet unpublished Money, bursting on the reader with a linguistic verve and lexical daring that seemed almost un-English. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z She comes off too seriously; she lacks verve. In nimble spy thriller "The Rhythm Section," Blake Lively misses a beat 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The Douro Red is an amazing value for the price; its verve and tension are stimulating, and its flavors of plums and red berries, seasoned with some wood spice and earth, can match bold foods. The top 12 wine bargains of 2020 include an outstanding boxed malbec for the equivalent of $5 a bottle 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z In this instance, she secretly replaced the old pillows on her guest room bed with a pair of MyPillows with all the wily verve of an instant coffee taste tester. I kicked Mike Lindell's MyPillows out of bed and finally got a good night's sleep 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Bryson Tiller sings with gymnastic verve, never letting the potential power of a lingering note get in the way of a slickly assembled cluster of syllables. Björk Insists on Connection, and 11 More New Songs 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z The challenge was to spin the basic tale into an artifice that displayed enough verve, charm and elegance to impress a coterie of connoisseurs. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z A collaboration among the dancers, all female, brought out both the shared ancient roots of the two styles and their differences: the more sinuous refinement of Odissi, the folksier verve of Kandyan. Live Performance in New York: Here’s What to See This Spring 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z But “jazzlike,” I think, would probably tell someone new to it that it was supposed to be kind of loose and free and have a certain verve to it. A Long-Lost Score, Rebuilt With the Help of a Photo 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z From an aesthetic point of view, the works that tease an abstract verve out of something figurative are among the most captivating in the show. Conservation-photo award winners at the Burke: beautiful, brutal, complex 2012-07-13T19:37:03Z Between short scenes – aiming presumably to distil the essence of Faulks's novel but actually stripping it of atmosphere and verve – swathes of prose are just read out. Birdsong; On Ageing; The Big Fellah; Yes, Prime Minister 2010-10-02T23:07:00Z Waite’s blend of photorealism and blatant visual disruption makes for some feisty compositional verve and drama. February gallery shows ponder architectural possibilities 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The company’s music director, James Conlon, puts Mozart first, which means enough verve to keep spirits high and enough support for his singers to remind them of the durable significance of what they sing. Abducting Mozart's 'Abduction From the Seragilo' to another time 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z The BFO began life as a festival band and still plays with staggering freshness and verve. Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-27T11:27:14Z Obituaries: By being himself, the pioneering news anchor Jim Vance broadcast straight into the heart of the District Vance: a valiant video voice, with a vigilant viewpoint in a volatile village; venerated for verve, versatility. New contest for Week 1240: We GIVE you Limerixicon XIV 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Conaboy, a New York magazine editor at large, brings voice and verve to this examination of why our pets make us swoon. 10 books to read in December 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z The Douro Red is an amazing value; its verve and tension are stimulating, and its flavors of plums and red berries, seasoned with some wood spice and earth, can match boldly flavored foods. You’ll want to stock up on this outstanding Portuguese red wine, a steal at $12 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z With her wry grin and screwball banter, Deutch is especially delightful, bounding through the cavalcade of holiday mix-ups with the buoyant verve of a bona fide romantic lead. ‘Something From Tiffany’s’ Review: Put a Ring on It 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z To take another example, the Sacha Baron Cohen comedies that forgo unscripted encounters with real people, “The Dictator” and “The Brothers Grimsby,” did not have the urgency and verve of his documentary comedies. The Most Adventurous Comedy Right Now Is Also the Most Real 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z At their finest, they find vigorous points of connection between the two worlds, tapping into a vibrant emotional connection with verve and creativity. Partners in crime: Lawbreakers and music, in a new short-story collection 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Sunday’s episode of “Game of Thrones” felt like the first one of the fifth season to have a bit of the old verve. 'Game of Thrones' Recap: Call Him Swordcatcher 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z You may not need much during a pandemic either, and “A Killer Party,” directed remotely but with verve by Marc Bruni, winks broadly at its limitations. ‘A Killer Party’ Review: The Case of the Online Musical 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Patrick Summers conducted the Orchestra of St. Luke's with verve and feeling for the bluesy action and the chilling moments. Review: Andre Previn's `Streetcar' makes it to NYC 2013-03-15T19:25:09Z Newman renders the Split Worlds with verve and an infectious sense of fun, and presents in Cathy a strong and personable heroine. Science fiction – review roundup 2013-05-08T08:00:02Z But suburban fine dining is a different proposition, where the notion of value is just as important as culinary verve. Skip the food court: Chicago suburban restaurant roundup 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z The company specializes in Elizabethan and Jacobean works and succeeds in finding young actors able to speak the language with some verve. Review | When blood and guts aren’t enough, even for a pair of tragedies 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z As a counterbalance to the darkness, Knight offers the possibility of redemption to Miss Havisham, whom Colman plays with imperious verve. Steven Knight’s ‘Great Expectations’ is a Dark Dream World 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z This is food with verve and a setting to match. Tom Sietsema’s 7 favorite places to eat right now 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z December brought a California winter—milder than an East Coast winter, but still winter—and the audience didn’t have the verve or color of the Woodstock crowd. The Chaos of Altamont and the Murder of Meredith Hunter 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z In his bourgeois portraits, we can admire the verve, inventiveness and psychological oddity; in his religious works, we can find searching anatomical realism and sense the storm clouds of the Reformation. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z But those are just the technical aspects of a performance that is impressively possessed: Garfield plays the passionate, frustrated Larson with enough zealous verve to power all the lights on Broadway. Andrew Garfield Can’t Remember Who He Was Before ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z What could match a recital of such variety and verve? Odissi Stars at a Dance Festival in Chennai, India 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z This show displays verve and promise in its depiction of the famous uprising of female assistants at a fictionalized Newsweek. Here Are the Best Pilots of the Fall Season 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Their vivid dialogues unfolded with both verve and spontaneity, at brisk tempos that stopped short of breathless. Music Review: Daniil Trifonov in Piano Debut With New York Philharmonic 2012-10-01T21:49:39Z That interest carried him to New York University, where he studied film and television with designs on cinematography, before an instructor identified fashion photography’s verve in Mr. Mitchell’s casual point-and-shoot images of friends. Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Unlike the New Adventures pieces, it is abstract and balletic, a sextet for two women and four women, danced — and filmed, by Alexander Izliaev — with verve and wit. A William Forsythe Sampler, JoyceStream and Bourne’s Legacy 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Then there’s freeze-dried fruit powder, that darling of pastry chefs, which can lend both color and verve. The Magic of Meringues 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z But for all the drama and verve of the performance, when everything drops away to focus on Gurrumul's voice, the evening's most transcendent moments occur, and they are far more radiant than any passing dazzle. Gurrumul at Vivid Live 2013 – review 2013-05-29T00:41:49Z In the early and mid-2010s, Yankee released a spate of albums, but many of them lacked dimension and verve, relying on unimaginative commercial tropes. Daddy Yankee, Reggaeton’s First Global Star, Steps Aside 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Wachner brought a fluidity and verve to this familiar piece, emphasizing less the work’s powerful sound than its sensuality and theatricality. Review | Julian Wachner leads his last concert as music director of Washington Chorus 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Gregory Linington, and by Erin Weaver, both playing three roles with hilarity and verve. Review | Having it all as the first female playwright in ‘Or,’ 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z The performers’ impeccable clarity and verve set the tone for the whole afternoon. Ehnes Quartet wows crowd in closing chamber-fest concert 2014-02-03T17:59:31Z What's more, the drama, though performed with unstoppable verve, has all the subtlety of a pop-up storybook. 'Hunchback of Notre Dame' at La Jolla has identity crisis 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z “We are all looking forward to him bringing his verve and attitude to WOI’s social channels and digital projects,” she said. Hamish Bowles Enters The World of Interiors 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z What has consistently saved the Warrnambool quartet, however, is the electrifying verve with which they attack their joyously simplistic songs. Airbourne: Black Dog Barking – review 2013-05-16T21:10:01Z As an artist with a disability, Davenport navigates the world in a wheelchair, with verve and little patience for the obstacles others can pose, both physical and ideological. ‘I Didn’t See You There’ Review: A View From His Seat 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z With just a handful of platforms on wheels and drawings on a blackboard, the cast set out the main characters and the political context, zipping along with verve. In Paris, Young Theater Makers Swing Big 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z If you want more verve and unintentional goofiness, try “The Flash.” What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Jane the Virgin’ and ‘30 for 30’ 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z When the script veers toward melodrama, these actors ground it with sensitivity and verve. Review: In ‘Brothers From the Bottom,’ Jousting About Gentrification 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z It delivers, with spicy, ripe berry flavors, acidic verve and a sustained finish. Cool down with this refreshing white from ‘the birthplace of wine’ for just $13 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Portrayed with elfin verve by Ana Tsikurishvili, the fairy is a riveting figure whose lime-green dress swirls with tiny lights and whose twitchy movements hint at the feral energy she channels. Review | Synetic’s ‘Peter Pan’ may talk, but it also delivers physical ingenuity 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z The evening began with “3 Epitaphs,” set to early jazz music performed with verve by the Asphalt Orchestra. Dance Review: Celebrating Paul Taylor at Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2010-08-08T22:44:00Z Condon, in short, has impressively sorted out the skein of relationships in a production that never lacks for velocity or verve. Revivals turn 2 problem-child musicals into something special 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z “Bend Sinister,” Vladimir Nabokov’s sinuous novel that shares both a title and verve with the Fall’s exceptionally twisty 1986 album, has a passage that gets at this a little closer to the bone. Perspective | Burrowing deep into many rabbit holes of Mark E. Smith and the Fall 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z After more than 30 years of professional dancing, she was still a compelling image of style, moving with verve and élan at the heart of two of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s classic works. Dance Review: Renee Robinson Farewell at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 2012-12-10T22:58:28Z On “Intrusive,” she harnesses punk verve and raps over a warped breakbeat, letting her intrusive impulses and most violent desires flow out in a stream-of-consciousness torrent. Sky Ferreira’s Dazzling, Defiant Return, and 11 More New Songs 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Dancing with Walker — a playful, spirited hoofer — Miller dipped backward into his arms, kicked her legs with verve. Winter Season at City Ballet: ‘Now Is the Time for a New Generation’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z It is, of course, thrilling to hear it played with verve and command. Review: Yuja Wang Tackles Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier,’ Assured to a Fault 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z But more often Williams reveals himself capable of a fiendish humor that verges on self-parody but retains a remarkable theatrical verve. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z But Ms. Brosnahan has real verve, and it’s a refreshing twist on a tired story — the frustrated male artist held back by domestic obligations — that “Dying,” in one of its many subplots, plays completely straight. Have You Heard the One About the Angsty Comic? Yes, Too Often 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Again, geometric verve seems as much the point as humble content. At SAAM: A lost art-history chapter restored 2011-12-07T23:48:10Z Vito Schnabel is the son of famed ’80s painter and later film director Julian Schnabel, and his taste in artists often follows his father’s bombast and verve. Still Independent, and Still Exceptional 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z They trade lines with a bubbly verve, the sort of eager overlap that comes from working in close quarters with old friends. A Tribe Called Quest Returns to a Changed World With Joy and Grief 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Only Van Sant’s film has a funny, offbeat, episodic quality that doesn’t negate the heartbreak and tragedy that’s peppered throughout it, but gives it dimension and surprising verve. Drugstore Cowboy at 30: is this the best film ever made about addiction? 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z But it had new verve when she brought it back around in the improvisational maelstrom of Thursday’s more intimate set. An Experimental Master Gets His Due Onstage in New York 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The show began with another performance by the Guitar Craft students, who played with more verve than they had the night before, perhaps because Fripp wasn’t among them. Surviving a Weekend with the Wizard of Prog Rock 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z There is verve in a space that is all inviting curves and corners. A Quiet Drink: A Chicago Cocktail Crawl 2013-12-26T15:36:42Z The orchestra sounded great and played with verve and brilliance. Music Review: Evolution, and a Definitive Endpoint 2011-05-15T21:30:31Z Pictures such as “Elder, Angola” are executed in a classic style, yet with contemporary verve. Review | In the galleries: Many shades of gray are only the beginning 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z The special verve came from Loos’s notion that, from the 1920s on, women had seized the right to enjoy sex as much as men, and to use it to their advantage. Megan Does Marilyn: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Is Her Smash 2012-05-13T17:01:06Z Some elements of “Paradise” are dated, but the verve of “A Great Man’s Child,” the show’s failson anthem, with a lyric by Arnold Weinstein, still plays well alongside contemporary talk about “nepotism babies.” America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Yet it has an undeniable power and verve. Hurry if you want to see the famous long-lost William Cumming mural 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z But while this screenplay lacks a verve or poetry in its language, Mohseni and Chen are able to work through it and find gestures that make their awkward and erotic energy feel sincere. ‘See You Then’ Review: The More Things Stay the Same 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z They brandish swords, rip through forest and dell, steal from the rich to benefit the poor and make mischief and romance, all with panache and verve. Occupy Sherwood Forest! 'Robin Hood' at SCT 2011-10-26T20:07:59Z But his show, “I Am the Object,” at Hauser & Wirth, hones in on the 1990s, with works that show the technique in early verve. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z And here, with great verve, they have become objects of both homage and retribution. Museum Review: Mob Museum Opens in Las Vegas 2012-02-14T00:58:51Z But it also has the chaotic verve and the formal discipline that any good cartoon requires. ‘Sausage Party’ Is an Animated Sex Comedy About Food ... and God 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z It’s not badly made, it just lacks verve. "Berlin, I Love You" won't bring you down 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z And the low-lying gold-leaf clouds that accentuate the aerial view tantalizingly block out bits of action and add great decorative verve. ‘The Tale of Genji’ and the Art It Inspired 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Palkens had more verve as he leapt and lashed around under pulsating magenta lights. Dance Review: Cincinnati Ballet at the Joyce Theater 2014-05-08T20:58:00Z With verve and showmanship, he wedged his pagoda between staid mansards. Antiques: Notes From the Dealer C. T. Loo, and Pens of a Certain Age 2012-09-06T21:10:10Z Vulnerability and verve run thick in this show, this vigorous, clamorous essay in clay, color, texture and space. At the Pit in Glendale, sculpture that keeps you on your toes 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Jude Law, clearly having a good time, plays the title character, a British gangster who talks the hard-boiled talk with verve and gutter lyricism, but is really just a big softie. Movie Listings for April 18-24 2014-04-17T22:55:56Z But the mix of sentiment and verve puts the movie at the high end of the Blue Sky quality scale: a little below Horton Hears a Who! and well above the Ice Age trilogy. Rio: Birds of a Fabulous Feather 2011-04-14T08:45:00Z His verve and talent will always be recognised, and his work will always find and enthrall new readers, but tastes change unpredictably as decades pass. Iain Banks: 'A star whose light will travel a long way' 2013-06-10T16:56:34Z The wine that has really piqued my interest comes from Portugal and is made by a winemaker who has quickly become a favorite of mine for wines with verve and character. This light Chilean pinot noir is an easy choice, especially priced at $13 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Alsop ended the concert with an account of Dvorák's Eighth Symphony that began with verve and drive, but lost focus as it went on. LPO/Alsop/Hough ? review 2012-02-09T18:00:01Z The Other Guys needs to recapture the zany verve of Anchorman before he goes the criminally unamusing way of other Saturday Night Live alumni such as Chevy Chase and Eddie Murphy. The Other Guys: star stand-ins or subs-standard? 2010-09-20T15:01:00Z And in 20th-century revivals of the toy theatre, the visual verve of their very British art was admired but the text seemed to retreat into inverted commas, the words almost an embarassment. Projections of puppet theatre 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z La Tour depicts Marie's famous warm-heartedness with a characteristic verve of his own, achieved in the tricky medium of pastel, then more like chalk and apt to blow away. The 10 best portraits of queens 2012-06-02T23:06:01Z No, what this production from Mr. van Hove’s Toneelgroep Amsterdam captures with such alarming verve is the sheer pulp appeal of what is essentially one really sick soap opera. Review: ‘The Fountainhead,’ High-Tech, Juicy and Full of Pulp 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Shannon told her story, which began horribly tragically, with wonderful verve, humor and positivity. Readers Share Their Favorite Books of 2022 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z “He’s a treasure. We’re very proud of ourselves,” says National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet, adding that the corporeal verve of dancers is a perfect remedy for the typically static environment of museums. How a choreographer sees art in a new way, through dance 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z When you first see the title character of “Dom Hemingway,” a violent British comedy about a gangster who talks the hard-boiled talk with verve and gutter lyricism, he’s speaking and staring into the camera. Movie Review: In ‘Dom Hemingway,’ Gangsters Meet Up in France 2014-04-01T22:56:10Z Whatever personal details she has marshaled have been charged with consistently imaginative language and great verve. ‘Panic in a Suitcase’ by Yelena Akhtiorskaya 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z That was apparent since her 2010 MTV Video Music Awards performance with “Dog Days Are Over,” which transfixed viewers with the raw verve and skill of a new talent. Coachella 2015: Florence + the Machine owns Sunday night 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z “From this day forward you’ll become sparrows, weapons in a global struggle for power,” the recruits are told by Charlotte Rampling’s unnamed and unsmiling instructor, a sort of Ninotchka minus verve and wit. ‘Red Sparrow’ Review: Flightless Bird 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Matheson writes with the jagged verve he once sought from his band. ‘Sick On You: The Disastrous Story of the Hollywood Brats’ 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z He left behind the young man full of verve and romanticism, who courted melancholy in his poems. When the World Stops, Traveling in John Keats’s ‘Realms of Gold’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Both interpretations seem to me too prescriptive, and belie the video’s actual verve. What It Means When Beyoncé and Jay-Z Take Over the Louvre 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z At a news conference announcing the Cannes slate, festival director Thierry Fremaux made a point of noting that "young French filmmakers are very abundant this year, full of verve and vitality." American actors and directors projected to shine at Cannes 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Others steer closer to Lawrence’s hallmark colors and compositional verve. For February, 3 shows at Seattle galleries worth your time 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Played by Jolie with slinky verve, voluminous wings and two magnificently crowning horns, Maleficent is the earlier movie’s greatest special effect. ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ Review: Sleep, Sleep, My Lovelies 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z That scene has the comic verve and performance élan missing from every earlier frame of 30:Minutes of Less. 30:Minutes or Less: Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari in a Go-Nowhere Fargo 2011-08-11T21:05:00Z I bet he still has some vestiges of that “charismatic verve”. 'It's a hustle': Jon Ronson on how he made it into movies with the help of Okja the giant pig 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Her full-throttle verve transcends the script like a water skier leaping over a Great White. ‘The Wrong Missy’ Review: Bad Romance 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z If the lyrics are wistful, the record’s mood is all cool verve — a mini-masterpiece in two minutes and four seconds. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z His manner was contemplative and slow, with little of the verve and fire I’d known. Our last Thanksgiving 2012-11-23T01:00:00Z This 1957 work by George Balanchine originally featured a square dance caller whose cracker-barrel rhymes underlined the American verve in the choreography’s approach to music by Vivaldi and Corelli. City Ballet Presents ‘Masters at Work’ 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z What unites everything in this refreshing show is unabashed verve. Female sculptors, full of humor and verve, prove to be way more than 'All Right' 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z The vampires of True Blood emerged from their coffins boasting violence, verve and sociological metaphors. When good TV goes bad: Why True Blood sucked the life out of the campy Vampire mystery 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z A story of fear, guilt and responsibility from a Scottish writer of real delicacy and verve. This week's new theatre 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z It is hard to imagine topping the collective verve that radiates out of the screen. Perspective | This remarkable ‘Hairspray’ video raises the roof. Even better, it raises money for entertainers in need. 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z That characterization feels like an awkward stretch, and this book as a whole lacks the narrative verve of recent books by Michael Lewis or Lawrence Wright about the pandemic. Reliving a Year of Death, as Havoc Reigned in the White House 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z The sidewalk is covered in the usual trash, but tonight it's full of verve. It All Ends: Tales From the Midnight Screening of Harry Potter 2011-07-15T09:05:00Z Teamwork is the star here, which is another way of saying that collective verve substitutes for transcendence. Stripped-down staging brings clever moments in this long, long journey 'Into the Woods' 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z “We learned a lesson and also realized that there are a lot of customers out there who have the verve and nerve to carry these hats off,” he says. Hat Makers With Attitude 2011-10-03T18:23:15Z Best of all, the cast members fling themselves into the dizzy frolics with terrific verve. Review: In ‘Important Hats of the Twentieth Century,’ Saggy Jeans and Sweatshirts Make a 1930s Incursion 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z In a handful of early scenes in Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket,” we learn quite a bit about this guy, who is played with antic, uninhibited verve by the onetime MTV V.J. ‘Red Rocket’ Review: All My XXX’s Live in Texas 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z With perfectly delivered witticisms, he infused inanimate concepts with such verve and style that to this day his books, lectures and interview transcripts seem to pulsate outward from the page. Review | ‘Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said’ explores the full spectrum of sources that shaped the scholar’s ideas 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z She brings all of the arrogance and longing of early sexual exploration to vivid life with real empathy and verve. For Better, for Worse: Three Memoirs Report From Marriage Country 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z There's a rhythmic verve to the wood carving in all these pieces. What a pretty picture ... OMG, what's happening in it, you'll ask, at 2 Seattle shows 2010-09-16T22:24:00Z Whatever mystical claptrap he has embraced since the 1970s, he has never lost his verve. The Bruce Lacey Experience - review 2012-07-06T17:08:31Z She has a look and verve similar to those of Violette Verdy, the beloved French-born City Ballet principal who died this year, but Ms. Woodward is also a ballerina of her time. The Best Dance of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z And she wrote this book in the “Seabiscuit” tradition, combining the power of truth-that’s-stranger-than-fiction with the colorful verve of a novel. Beth Macy’s 'Factory Man,' Michael Lewis’s 'Flash Boys' and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Whether or not you find the movie reprehensible -- and it kind of is -- Pang is a young director of tremendous verve and talent. Best of Tribeca: Killing for a "Dream Home" 2010-05-04T20:45:00Z Though I love Shakespeare as written, in this production the community involvement had so much to offer, from signing to drumming, and the songs, especially Viola's, as mentioned, had such verve and poignancy. Review: ‘Twelfth Night,’ Anything Goes in Love and Shakespeare 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z The evidence for this blunt-force thesis is presented in “Reign of Terror” with an impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full effect. ‘Reign of Terror’ Brilliantly Traces the Course From 9/11 to President Trump 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z The eight new episodes don’t entirely clean up its freewheeling mess, but they make up for it in verve and enthusiasm. Review: ‘Minx’ Returns, Confident and Fully Exposed 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Welcome is a haunting exercise in atmospheric note-warping, but on the uptempo Summit and the staccato Who?, the saxes trade flying phrasing with a verve that obliterates the decades between them. Rudresh Mahanthappa/Bunky Green: Apex 2010-09-23T21:30:00Z Although he had recorded a backing track the night before, he insisted on singing live instead of lip-syncing, “to give it that extra verve,” he said. On TV’s New Musicals, Every Episode Is Opening Night 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Try as he might, Mr. Harris does not inject much verve into this string of discoveries. Books of The Times: ‘An Officer and a Spy’ Is Robert Harris’s Latest Novel 2014-02-03T22:23:02Z Throughout a program of Bach, Gluck and Jean-Féry Rebel, the group played with crispness and verve. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW at Zankel Hall 2012-12-05T05:03:07Z Under him, the NSO kept to its wonted energetic sloppiness, which didn’t help focus the Elgar, but added verve to the verve-full Vaughan Williams. The NSO goes to Britain 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z But like Kene's previous plays – Estate Walls and Little Baby Jesus – it's got real verve and vigour too, and there are moments in its examination of emotional legacies and cultural identity that hit the mark. God's Property – review 2013-03-07T17:42:52Z His best movies have all the immediacy, all the colour, verve and larger-than-life characterisation of the sharpest graphic novels. The next Paul Verhoeven? I'd buy that for a dollar 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The hosts were excited about the nominations on a level combining gossip-blog knowledgeability and tabloid verve. The 2018 Emmy Nominations: There Is a Lot of Television to Watch 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z It's a prose "crip" version of Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife with the same wit and verve, but it goes further, challenging how we understand and look at our own and other bodies. Left out: the authors who know disability from inside 2013-07-11T10:55:47Z Devastatingly simple, its tale of lives and loves gone awry showcases the standout qualities of Polley's verse: deft concision, musical prowess, syntactic verve, and a voice that rings painfully true. The Havocs by Jacob Polley – review 2013-01-04T21:55:01Z The dancing of Lauren King, in the soloist role, radiated more truly into space and took more verve from the music than that of either star. Dance Review: Taking Flight: A Season of Revival 2011-01-28T23:27:03Z Each is a marvel of elegant understatement and compositional verve. Painters Fred Reichman and Eleanor Ray, attuned to the humble beauty of the everyday 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z At the end of the second episode, he puts his wife, played with great verve and necessary warmth by Suzanne Pleshette, to sleep by talking about himself. Bob Newhart, Master of the One-Sided Conversation 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The blare of the music must substitute at times for the missing verve. Pull off the wig and falsies, and 'Georgia McBride' hits its groove 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Still, the number of people who have this creative do-gooder verve is small. Wringing Art Out of Rubble in Detroit 2010-08-03T22:29:00Z “Bonsai,” taut and full of verve, was about a writer working on a quasi-autobiographical novel about a couple who nurture a bonsai tree together. ‘Chilean Poet’ Is a Playful Novel About (Yes) Chile and Poetry 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z While there were moments of piquancy and verve in the winds and brasses, the strings tamped out little flashes of fire and spark in favor of a plusher, more rounded sound. Review: The National Symphony Spotlights Forward Thinkers 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Spirit and verve made up for the shoddy effects. Perspective | TV needs a really great space saga. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ comes close, but the longing remains. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z But most of the way, directed with amazing invention and verve by Nicholas Hytner and starring a force of nature called James Corden, the thing is impossible to resist. Low Comedy, High Concept 2012-04-24T10:50:07Z The solemn "All the Love" features a relatively straightforward guitar-bass-drums combo, while Bush's piano work throughout is full of verve and bounce — a jaunty waltz here, matching an oompah band there — but restrained where needed. Kate Bush's bewitching "The Dreaming" turns 40 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z But the works themselves are quite lively, pulled off with verve and an ecumenical historical awareness. Art In Review: MARY WEATHERFORD: ‘Manhattan’ 2012-09-13T21:02:04Z The work also pays homage to Haydn with the witty, unexpected ending of the concluding Presto, played here with passion and verve. Music Review: London Haydn Quartet Brings Its Gut Strings to the Morgan 2014-01-22T20:26:03Z Boston Baroque, led by Martin Pearlman, performs the stormy opening movement with rhythmic verve and intensity. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Boston Baroque, Rafal Blechacz, Alexandre Tharaud and More 2014-01-01T17:00:22Z Here, in fact, is where the story gets interesting and where Betts guides us through a thicket of fashion-insider details with skill and verve. T Magazine: Michelle Obama, First Lady of Fashion 2011-01-31T19:00:08Z It’s there in abundance, its complexities giving his hard-boiled compositions unsettling resonance, uncanny verve and lasting impact. In Charles Garabedian's paintings, anguish of biblical proportions 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z But it also had an immediate verve, cut-to-the-bone performances and heart to spare. The Best TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z He was well matched with Ms. Dickinson, who stood out for her own directness and verve. Kathryn Posin’s Bulgarian Program 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Headland, whose comedy “Bachelorette” remains among the most scorchingly funny new plays I’ve reviewed, has muffled her comic verve almost completely in this play, although the dialogue occasionally crackles with sharp-elbowed exchanges. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z It channels the euphoria and anxieties of the ’60s with great verve. ‘For a New World to Come,’ Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Dina Thomas and Michael Goldstrom are saucy and peppy as a maid and valet; the balanced cast’s timing and verbal verve are impeccable from end to end. Manic poets collide in STC’s newly hip 18th-century ‘Metromaniacs’ 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z A part-time DJ from east London – whatever that means – Natalie pelts at every challenge with an irrepressible verve. MasterChef final 2013: who will win? 2013-05-02T11:51:24Z But Ted wasn’t making any effort to grab her at the elbow with the same “Fran, this longstanding donor is just thrilled to meet you” verve I was witnessing elsewhere. It Wasn’t Me He Wanted 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z There’s a sassy swagger to “Woman with Green Hat,” its distortions of line and shadow suggesting a figure of captivating verve. Peggy Strong retrospective raises more questions than it answers about her career 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The author, a former Newsweek correspondent, tells the story of that single year with verve and scholarship. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-07T07:01:13Z If Disney is going to bring back the greatest baddie of all time, they need to do so with verve and swagger. Disney will truly know the power of Star Wars' dark side if it ruins Darth Vader and Han Solo 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z If the nonmusical parts of “The Conversationalists” lack such verve and joy, we eventually learn why that may be so. Review: Staging a Movie Melodrama in ‘The Conversationalists’ 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Franck Krawcyzk, one of Brook's co-adaptors on the project, plays the piano with verve and keeps the singers mostly on track. Peter Brook reduces Mozart to bare essentials 2011-07-07T06:31:08Z It was a significant anniversary for the Oscars — the academy’s 90th show — yet the telecast had no special pomp and circumstance nor even much verve. Kevin Hart and the Academy: 2018 Gets the Messy Oscars It Deserves 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Conducted by Andrew Litton, the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra played all works with passion and verve. New York City Ballet injects incredible zing into new Peck ballet and other works 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z A reader who knows nothing of Hilary Mantel's earlier work will immediately sense the stylistic confidence of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies – the sheer verve of those sentences. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z This is the definitive animated comic book show, its traditional hand-drawn techniques adding sumptuous charm and verve to a wonderfully old school take on the dark knight’s broodingly baroque world. The Incredible Hulk, Jessica Jones and the best comic book TV shows ever 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Bouder, with ease and elegance, matches the verve of the music with the exceptional Janzen, whose delight at dancing with someone seems to ignite his already airy strength and reach. Review: Sofia Coppola Brings New York City Ballet Back to Life 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z This delightful North Carolina group explores African-American fiddle and folk traditions — including banjo, bones and quills — with verve and élan. 15 top Northwest entertainment picks, March 25-31 2012-03-21T22:59:04Z We were hoping to see this kind of verve and creative courage parlayed into Rian Johnson’s mooted new trilogy of films set away from the utterly rinsed Skywalker clan and its various hangers-on. Bye bye box office: has Disney really given up on Star Wars movies? 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s arguable that no one has done so with as much verve while also transcending the genre they love. The Slackers are the ska stalwarts who keep on going 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Davidson describes the incredible athleticism of their work with such verve that you put this book down expecting to brush sawdust off your hands. Review | ‘Damnation Spring’ beautifully explores the human cost of environmental damage 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z What remained the same throughout the night was her verve. Review: Nicki Minaj Raps Life Lessons at Barclays Center 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z On the radio and on Twitter, he’s a reliable agitator, a punching bag that punches back, but little of his verve makes the cut. Television Review: ‘This Is Hot 97’ on VH1 Spoofs Reality Shows 2014-03-30T21:52:05Z These stories often feel like throwbacks to his early genre-inspired work, but they lack the energy and imitative verve that fueled the best of those endeavors. Review: ‘Lucky Alan,’ Jonathan Lethem’s Dreamlike Tales of Seclusion 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z In six novellas that pay explicit tribute to forebears from Raymond Chandler to Elmore Leonard, Winslow shows his range and verve as a writer of propulsive crime stories. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z For Bieber's spark, his verve, his very raison d'être could soon be extinguished for good. Poor Justin Bieber and his anger issues. He has become the King Joffrey of pop 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Yet for all the deceit and bullying, this is a romp of a read, full of colour and verve, a mix of The Hour and Mad Men in a single volume. An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines – review 2013-01-14T09:00:01Z Trufelman, a former producer and reporter for the podcast “99% Invisible,” has enough passion and verve to stitch even unruly threads of race, sex and class into place. Best Podcasts of 2022 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z What was once a troubling facet in a body of work with undeniable verve and accomplishment, has now calcified in Tarantino’s work. Tarantino's gruesome revenge fantasies are growing more puerile and misogynistic | Caspar Salmon 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Smartly directed by Anita Khanzadian, Marks is a petite dynamo who plays multiple roles with great verve and an impressive ear for dialects. Gifted performer, but 'All American Girl' has simplistic worldview 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z For all its imaginative verve—and grace notes of snappy performance, gestures, and inflections—“Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood” is a strangely inert movie. Review: Quentin Tarantino’s Obscenely Regressive Vision of the Sixties in “Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood” 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z These mornings often have the most joyful, vibrant playing of the festival, and this week’s program was no exception, led with verve by Adam Fischer. At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z In the middle of the pack: South Street’s Lemon Shandy, which lacked the oomph and verve of the Bitburger. This beer/soda combo you’re seeing everywhere is the perfect summer refresher 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z “It’s not just a push-the-buttons dog movie,” Bailey said, the verve returning to his voice. Remember Family Films? Disney Plus Is Making ’Em Like They Used To 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z But over the last few years, its symbolism, its intellectual resonance and its joyous verve have been enjoying newfound respect. Perspective | Documentary series ‘American Style’ embraces fashion as an art form 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z The inaugural group show at this new project space, founded by the artist Onyedika Chuke in his own basement art studio, is a powerful mix of explicit politics and formal verve. Ablaze With Art: Thriving Galleries in Lower Manhattan 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z In the stage version, dancers perform — in sneakers — with verve, longing and a marvelous sense of community. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Ranges From Donizetti to Jazz 2010-05-26T21:43:00Z But the group sacrificed none of its verve when it slowed down for the mostly lilting “Die with Diamonds,” the hook of which is a simple “la-la-ooh.” Review | At DC9 show, Lightmare’s mix of soul and punk sounds great at half speed and full tilt 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z The saga plays out with verve in Constellation Theatre Company’s production. What you should be seeing in D.C. theater this week 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The film’s dramas are ornately costumed but often stilted and lacking the verve of the battle staging. ‘Hansan: Rising Dragon’ Review: Naval Gazing 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Some interviews, clearly shot later, display more cinematic verve, with Wang filming heated conversations by survivors and panning among them. ‘Dead Souls’ Review: Forgotten Victims of Mao’s Camps Speak 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Still, the verve of this company’s freewheeling creativity left a ringing impression. Perspective | At the Kennedy Center, Michelle Dorrance’s tappers pay homage to Ella Fitzgerald and Christmas 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z With patience, however, these stylistic upheavals reinvigorate the book’s project again and again, allowing the ode form tremendous malleability and verve, all the while destigmatizing bipolar disorder through candor, intimacy and creativity. Confronting Grief, Mental Illness and Marginalization, in Verse 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The character, portrayed with sprightly verve by Ms. Lee, was among the most memorable of the production, but it hasn’t aged gracefully. Ugg-A-Wha? Updating Stereotypes in 'Peter Pan' 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Though I doubt “Classical Symphony” will prove a masterpiece, its sheer nerve and verve are hard to resist. Dance Review: Nerve and Verve On a Grand Scale 2011-03-07T22:49:07Z Mr de Villepin’s words combined “seductive masculinity and rhetorical verve” in the best tradition of French public oratory and linguistic elegance. They think, therefore they are 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z I hope they keep a lot of the feel and verve of previous shows. 'A stellar choice': your thoughts on Jodie Whittaker's casting in Doctor Who 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Church has clawed his way into the country mainstream with a series of post-outlaw anthems, and he delivered them with verve and tension, as if he might not be allowed to for much longer. The Best Concerts of 2012, as Seen by Times Critics 2012-12-26T23:38:02Z I had to learn to control my verve. Emily Woof 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z While the film’s visual callbacks are imperative, it’s the hip-hop soundtrack that gives “Rise of the Beasts” its sonic verve. How ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Throws a ’90s Hip-Hop Party 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Her take on , which Disney is releasing after selling off its Miramax subsidiary, doesn't have Titus' sweep, gore, poetry or hard kick, but there's enough visual verve to keep the eye occupied intelligently. Barney, The Tempest and Casino Jack: Warming Up for Oscar 2010-12-31T07:00:00Z Milch wrote Swearengen’s dialogue with such verve and masterful vulgarity that it even inspired one of this fine publication’s former TV critics, Heather Havrilesky, to weave entire columns in its divinely abrasive patois. “Deadwood” fans, rejoice: the movie is alive at HBO!…But so is “Confederate” 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z While her childhood friends soon rose to become leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, young Sandra explored other routes, taking her verve and enrolling in journalism classes as a feisty 17 year old. Queen of Cartels: most famous female leader of Mexico's underworld speaks out 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Telegraph newspaper critic Neil McCormick said Jackson "bursts with verve and confidence" and said the album "may well be Jackson's best work since his Eighties glory days." Critics say Michael Jackson album better than feared 2010-12-09T21:38:00Z With lyrics by Ira Gasman, and a book by Coleman, Gasman and David Newman, “The Life” imagined the sex workers who populated Times Square as showbiz types with verve and moxie. Comedy Undercut ‘The Life.’ Billy Porter Looks for Its Humanity. 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Colorful, convenient and flavorful, these side dishes add brightness and verve, on Thanksgiving and beyond. A Brilliant Thanksgiving Strategy: Make Sides Quickly, or Ahead 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z The orchestra performed with verve and a suitable sense of grandeur, but the piece, full of bombastic flourishes, lacks Tchaikovsky’s trademark melodic flair, and it sometimes sounded like much ado about nothing. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Tchaikovsky at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-07-08T20:24:36Z However, it’s Clarkson’s originals — which she sings with the kind of verve most singers not named Mariah Carey don’t bother putting into their holiday releases — that make “When Christmas Comes Around …” truly stand out. 13 Albums That Revisit (and Redefine!) Holiday Classics 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Houdini escapes from a straitjacket suspended from a crane and the ensemble numbers are executed with verve. Ragtime – review 2012-05-30T17:08:42Z That the group maintained its signature sound and verve says a lot about its integrity, as well as the depth of New York’s freelance pool. Music Review: Bang on a Can All-Stars at Rite of Summer Festival 2013-07-14T21:49:25Z Mr. Ramasar, known for his boyish verve, couldn’t find a place in the soulful world of “Emeralds.” New York City Ballet Is Back, and the Real Jewels Are the Dancers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z As the narrative shifts between their stories, Vargas Llosa tells both of them with verve and some high drama. Mario Vargas Llosa takes on human foibles in 'The Discreet Hero' 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The music’s folk-lilt and rhythmic verve are reflected in the dance itself, which ranges from striking solos and rapturous duets to jaunty trios and energetic group revelries. Grupo Corpo: From troubadour tunes to techno trance | Dance review 2014-01-24T18:56:05Z Despite the political catchwords on Humberto Leon’s streetwear costumes, it doesn’t have a lot to say, but it has the most verve of the three works on the program. Review: City Ballet Holds Steady as an Old Guard Meets the New 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Part of that comes from the verve of its creation and surprise arrival. “Horace and Pete” Is Louis C.K.’s Most Audacious Independent Creation Yet 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z I'll take "playful," frankly — especially when it's delivered with this much discipline and verve. Review: A night at Northwest New Works ? playful men with verve, serious women on the verge 2010-06-06T16:59:00Z You have to go back to The Lion King to find a show with as much invention, spirit and genre-redefining verve. Matilda: The Best Musical Since The Lion King 2013-04-12T03:00:16Z The novel’s explorations of everyday village life in London and Africa contain specificity and verve. Zadie Smith’s New Novel Takes on Dance, Fame and Friendship 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Joined by a six-member orchestra led with verve and precision by Raphael Fusco, the cast energetically inhabited a world both realistically contemporary and timelessly comic, creating characters simultaneously stereotypical and personal. Music Review: Call It ‘The Green Card of Figaro,’ With Thanks to Mozart 2013-06-16T21:49:33Z Unless, of course, they are clambering on Letts, who, though he admires the performers' verve, is left alone to defend the dwindling causeway of decency and uptightness. What to say about ... Hair 2010-04-15T16:10:00Z All acquit themselves with tremendous verve and panache, although in the long run perhaps Ms. Winslet’s performance will remain the most unforgettable, for spectacular reasons that it would be unsporting to reveal. Film: At Venice Film Festival, Love, Sex and Bickering 2011-09-06T11:55:32Z The teenage quintet electrified its audience, sprinting through a Bill Monroe standard with verve that suggested these sounds were vital to fresh generations. An Unlikely Fiddler’s Dream 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z For those who yearn for the verve and wit and chagrin of Alcott, "The Little Women Letters" offers a thoroughly modern, very English twist. Louisa May Alcott as protagonist: Three new novels feature the author of 'Little Women' 2011-06-15T19:36:04Z It is told with pace and verve and bitter, black humour. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z If she was an attention-seizing spark in previous shows, she's the gravitational pull holding her side of "A League of Their Own" together with verve and passion. "A League of Their Own" makes up for the past's missed swings, but isn't quite a home run 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z “The Second” is written with verve, painted with broad strokes and dotted with memorable anecdotes and vivid quotations. Was the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Designed to Protect Slavery? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Australians do things with such verve, you hardly realise you're being marketed at. TV review: Chateau Chunder; Heston's Fantastical Food; Dara Ó Briain's Science Club 2012-11-13T22:00:01Z Blomkamp’s first film, 2009’s District 9, was a sensation precisely because it applied verve and brio to a set of ideas in a way that got audiences legitimately excited. We Need Good Sci-Fi Movies, and Chappie Isn't One of Them 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z But, even if the show makes little sense, it is put across with tremendous verve in Timothy Sheader's production. Crazy For You ? review 2011-08-10T18:00:01Z He sets scenes with great vividness and writes, from street level, with an unflagging verve. Millenniums of Tribulation 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z These expressions of exasperation may not bode well for Sandilands’s future with Adelaide, but they do help to imbue “Diana’s Altar” with a sheen of historical veracity and plenty of verve. ‘Diana’s Altar’ by Barbara Cleverly beckons fans of P.D. James 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Still, the charts proffered some highlights in 2018—moments of extraordinary ingenuity and verve. The Ten Best Albums of 2018 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Did posing South American verve as the antidote to cold American greed seem like reductive exoticism? 'True Detective' Season 2 Finale Recap: In Search of a Better World 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z This production, from Detroit Opera, features Davis’s rich and newly revised score, which ranges between Ellingtonian accents and Second Viennese School influences with verve to spare. The Met Opera’s New Season: What We Want to See 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z It hits its lurching stride in the action scenes, staged with verve and even a touch of menace by Dan Rogers. | 'Death Valley': The Undead Are Uneasy in the Untamed West 2011-07-03T21:10:27Z “Robert Battle has served the Ailey organization with talent, verve and distinction over the past dozen years,” Daria Wallach, chair of the Ailey board of trustees, wrote in a statement. Robert Battle, Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey Company, Resigns 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Acting is pretty much surplus to those requirements, though it seems no one told Nina Dobrev, who plays a tech-support geek with more verve than she mustered in six seasons of “The Vampire Diaries.” Review: ‘XXX: Return of Xander Cage’ Deploys Vin Diesel on a New Mission 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Divergent, directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth’s dystopia: six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants’ skills. REVIEW: There's Nothing Urgent About "Insurgent" 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z There’s even more verve in the musical parodies of “Popstar” than in the strenuous emptiness, forced whimsy, and programmed emotion of “La La Land.” The Empty Exertions of “La La Land” 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z "His shows were staged with verve, humor and a director's skill which characterized the whole creation of this remarkably talented director," she said online. Well-known Romanian theater director dies 2011-11-30T17:02:06Z The occasional burst of texture — handclaps, sparkling synth ambience, bass curlicues, and a smoldering bridge — adds verve throughout. "Planet Earth" at 40: The perfect debut single that boldly launched Duran Duran 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z Goodman's tale of the cratering music industry might as well be titled "Collapse," but he tells the story of the technological change with drama and verve. 27 best books of 2010: The Seattle Times looks back at a year of great reading 2010-12-18T01:15:33Z As works-in-progress from one of the most heated creative eras the world has known, they represent the verve of the studio, imagination on the hoof. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z Notwithstanding the verve of individual performances, it’s the numerous dance ensembles where this show, time and again, is at its happiest and brightest. Critic’s Notebook: A Look at This Year’s Broadway Choreography 2014-04-25T22:05:13Z Who else has combined journalistic instincts, sensationalistic impulses, and self-promotional verve with such enduring success? The Reliable Volatility of Geraldo Rivera on Fox News 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z His new collection of journalism, “The Rub of Time,” produced the usual reaction in me: intense, fawning admiration for his wit and verve, interspersed with bursts of contemptuous irritation at some pomposity or other. Richard Lloyd Parry: By the Book 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z But the action in both is driven by the sheer verve of a strong, spirited, independent young woman. 'Sound of Music,' 'Pretty Woman' heroines so similar, yet so different 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z This version bristles with the verve of a young, unbridled whiskey, delivering roundhouse wallops of grain and cocoa. | Cups of Good Cheer 2012-12-14T22:31:14Z Traipsing into the house next door are a family of minstrel characters, the Crows, who are also minstrel performers, all played with impressive verve by black actors in blackface. Theater Review | 'Neighbors': At Public Theater, Racial Commentary in Caricature 2010-03-09T22:11:00Z “Ella Baff is a proven professional who combines experience, enthusiasm and verve,” Earl Lewis, the foundation’s president, said in a statement. Jacob’s Pillow Director to Depart for Mellon Foundation 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z The festival’s most fully realized play was Jordan Harrison’s piquantly funny “Maple and Vine,” directed with verve by Anne Kauffman. Critic?s Notebook: Louisville Dreaming: Characters Exploring Boundaries 2011-04-04T21:55:20Z The caller was removed decades ago, but the verve remains — especially these days, when the work is led by Ashley Bouder. City Ballet Presents ‘Masters at Work’ 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z However familiar the overall dynamics of “Modern Lovers” might be, Ms. Straub writes with such verve and sympathetic understanding of her characters that we barely notice. Review: In Emma Straub’s ‘Modern Lovers,’ Passion and Regret in Brooklyn 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z The series, with verve and intelligence, gets as much of that in as it can. ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Review: The Necessity of John Brown 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Even in those days, Ms. Gaynor was never a vocal powerhouse, yet her singing conveyed enough verve and personality for her to carry off a glittering production number. Music Review: At Feinstein?s at Loews Regency, Mitzi Gaynor?s ?Razzle Dazzle? 2010-05-19T21:47:00Z But first you partake in afternoon tea, elegantly served on triple-tier cake stands with a glass of champagne to lend extra verve to your swing. Diversions: Croquet and Tea at London's Goring Hotel 2010-07-15T08:05:00Z But the new verve to this collection was the way in which he seemed to view the old standards with fresh eyes. Fashion Review: Tommy Hilfiger and Tory Burch at New York Fashion Week 2014-02-12T03:09:55Z Melvin Abston as Sebastian, the Caribbean crab, delivers "Under the Sea" and "Kiss the Girl" with the wit and verve of his cartoon predecessor while resembling, in his charming colonial costume, George Washington dyed red. Ariel version 2.0: 'The Little Mermaid' splashes into La Mirada Theatre with an updated story 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2, with the Russian Kirill Gerstein as soloist, was poetic and impassioned, with a verve which carried through to Prokofiev's awkward and restless Symphony No 6. Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review 2012-07-21T23:05:54Z But it works even better as the savory base for an array of garnishes — just a little something sliced, crumbled or dolloped for color and verve. This Lentil Soup Can’t Get Much Easier 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Some tears will be of joy, that a beloved property has been adapted with verve, imagination and bold visual style. Perspective | ‘Black Panther’ is a revelation but also a reminder of what we’ve been missing 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z With the Coens' films, the subject matter is almost always secondary to the technical excellence, the eccentric performances and the creative verve. "A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop": "Blood Simple," Hunan-style 2010-09-03T19:31:00Z An exultant sensuous verve jumps from the pages of this sometimes bleak, never deceived and yet always life-affirming book. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z “Battle Royale,” a gaudy, gruesome comic book, tackles these questions with a verve that is both earnest and impish. Movie Review: ‘Battle Royale,’ Directed by Kinji Fukasaku 2012-05-24T23:38:04Z During those years, his imagination ranged freely across the popular culture of the past, with charm and verve and, more often than not, with the benefit of Ms. Farrow’s comic poise and emotional grace. Is Woody Allen a Great Filmmaker? Discuss 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Mr. French attacked the tangled subject of India’s history with a verve that critics found refreshing. Patrick French, Unsparing Biographer of V.S. Naipaul, Dies at 56 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Still, Telfer narrates them with great verve, grace and even humor. True Crime Gets Its Close-Up 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z “Queen Sugar” lost a little of its verve along the way, but its early seasons are unimpeachable — gorgeous and rich, soapy enough to be intriguing and grounded enough to be meaningful. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Then came an exhilarating “King Lear” at the Old Vic in 2016, announcing that Ms. Jackson had lost none of her power and verve. Review: Glenda Jackson Gets Her Queen Lear Moment in ‘Three Tall Women’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z |
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