verve

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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.

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As a counterbalance to the darkness, Knight offers the possibility of redemption to Miss Havisham, whom Colman plays with imperious verve.

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There were accounts of confidence, displays of style and verve — and with them, transformations of lives that had once been shaped mostly by duty and routine.

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Lately, he has found them lacking their customary verve and intensity, a shortcoming he attributes to global warming.

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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.

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