This kind of threat, a Southern white woman telling a black man to stay in his own neighborhood, has a long and dismal history, but Bullock delivers it with verve, and without a trace of self-consciousness.
But this is a livelier crime against Camelot than "The Georgetown Ladies Social Clubby by C. David Heymann, who is brazen without verve.
West Brom, for so long in a relegation dogfight, lacked their usual verve in attack without Peter Odemwingie and Jerome Thomas, while Newcastle enjoyed a punchy start in what was expected to be a dead-rubber at St James's Park.
One of the guide's key bits of advice to those lusting after power, money, fame, et cetera: cultivate sprezzatura, defined as "an easy manner (sweat is for losers)." But that is a definition without panache -- without the verve and fingertips-together dash the Italian word deserves.
"We're playing like a team without any verve or quality.
Simon manages to traverse it with admirable detachment, though without the verve he shows later on in the book.
A big mistake, Mr. Sulzberger said, was Us magazine, a weekly The Times started in the 1970s, patterned on People magazine but without its verve or circulation.
He had played, albeit sparingly and without much verve, on Friday and Saturday, just days after the death of his father, Donald.
THOUGH this is Kachtick's first novel, he writes with an assurance and verve that fling us without trepidation into the confusions of an earnest philanderer, and in one memorable passage he even goes so far as to evoke a long and harrowing trip through the bardo, or Buddhist after-death state.
Jyn also felt too similar to The Force Awakens' lead Rey, though without the verve or the Force.
