Sentence examples for usual verve from inspiring English sources

Stoudemire started anyway and played effectively, if not always with his usual verve.

He played sparingly and without his usual verve in two games before going on leave again.

With her usual verve Ms. Mapp created a platform that was particularly poignant for its revelatory references.

PAUL LEWINTER, M.D. Our new stock girl, Natalie, fielded a call from a customer with her usual verve.

Philippe Jordan conducts with his usual verve and musicality but could pay greater heed to the darker currents of the score.

It is a Monday evening, just around 7, and Mr. Samuelsson — hotshot chef, food impresario and kinetic force behind Red Rooster Harlem, one of Manhattan's restaurants of the moment — is displaying his usual verve.

In "True Cross," Pearson writes with his usual idiosyncratic verve.

He was missing what he would call his usual "braggadocious" verve.

Against all his assumptions and prejudices, he finds relief eventually in New Age-style meditation, but his journey is inward as well as outward, and involves a brutally honest, darkly comic self-examination of his life and character, written with Parks's usual stylistic verve.

The Brazilian's usual attacking verve was greatly inhibited by the need to keep a close eye on Lionel Messi, who was unusually stationed on his wing.

Leicester had an edge in the scrum in the first half, but lacked their usual attacking verve with ball in hand.