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She played with skill and verve.
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The show, produced with A24, faithfully traces the plot of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, centering the voice of the narrator, known simply as The Captain, played with cheeky verve by Australian actor Hoa Xuande, who is of Vietnamese descent.
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Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
The characters are stereotypes living their lives stereotypically; there’s no verve to the filmmaking.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
There’s a certain verve to Bartlett’s style, which is bold even if the plot turns make no sense and the character development is nil.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2024
Others were dismayed at Pacino’s apparent failure to inject a bit of verve and suspense into the proceedings (as if everyone in the world didn’t know Oppenheimer was about to win, anyway).
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2024
Heilbrunn’s book opens with verve, then becomes a touch slapdash as the narrative drives toward the present.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2024
With verve, Domingo digs into the experience of a Black gay man in the racist and homophobic 1960s.
—Leanne Italie, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2024
Richie Grainge herself has evolved her stylistic approach from an ostentatious Los Angeleno verve into a look that’s more low-key highbrow.
—Nick Remsen, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
The show is every bit as pertinent two years later, but a new production at Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse lacks the verve and bite the script demands.
—EW.com, 29 Jan. 2024
Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
The characters are stereotypes living their lives stereotypically; there’s no verve to the filmmaking.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
There’s a certain verve to Bartlett’s style, which is bold even if the plot turns make no sense and the character development is nil.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2024
Others were dismayed at Pacino’s apparent failure to inject a bit of verve and suspense into the proceedings (as if everyone in the world didn’t know Oppenheimer was about to win, anyway).
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2024
Heilbrunn’s book opens with verve, then becomes a touch slapdash as the narrative drives toward the present.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2024
With verve, Domingo digs into the experience of a Black gay man in the racist and homophobic 1960s.
—Leanne Italie, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2024
Richie Grainge herself has evolved her stylistic approach from an ostentatious Los Angeleno verve into a look that’s more low-key highbrow.
—Nick Remsen, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
The show is every bit as pertinent two years later, but a new production at Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse lacks the verve and bite the script demands.
—EW.com, 29 Jan. 2024
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“Verve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verve. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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: lively enthusiasm
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