(n.) Excitement of imagination such as animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing; rapture; enthusiasm; spirit; energy.
Example Sentences:
(1) He sometimes bordered on caricature, but always provided colour and verve.
(2) A pologies in advance for the lack of fizz, the absence of oomph, the non-appearance of verve in today's Rumour Mill.
(3) 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.
(4) The forward scored one goal, made two more and performed with the verve and assurance to suggest he belongs on this stage.
(5) Make no mistake: it is this Party with the verve, energy and ideas to take our country forward.
(6) It has taken Jürgen Klopp less than eight weeks to restore all the verve that, only two seasons ago, almost propelled Liverpool to the Premier League title.
(7) "Despite what staff have been through, they continue to produce papers with verve, style and humour," he said.
(8) They don't seem to be eviscerating the Inter defence with their usual verve and are losing possession more often than you'd expect as a result of misplaced passes and poor touches.
(9) But for all the verve that Leicester could offer, Arsenal found more.
(10) Electrical stimulation of the central end of the ipsilateral vagal nerve in the neck, with the contralateral vagal verve left intact, resulted in a decreased transpyloric flow and relaxation of the stomach.
(11) With the exception of a Junior Stanislas shot that fizzed wide in the 66th minute, they could not create the same attacking verve they had previously shown.
(12) The substitute Duncan Watmore brought some verve and he chased down John O’Shea’s pass to nick the ball from in front of the hesitant Olejnik and score.
(13) Nine of the 23 travelling to France are aged 30 or over and, if Russia lack verve, they do at least have a battle-hardened core of competitors who will work honestly and are motivated for one last push before, surely, the squad is significantly refreshed in the run-up to their home World Cup.
(14) Granted their recent run of defeats has come against teams at the top end of the division but too often Christian Benteke was left isolated here, with only gabriel Agbonlahor providing any semblance of attacking verve in the final third.
(15) Yet here they countered with verve and threat, and defended with such energy.
(16) The visitors strained to match the offensive verve of the Poles, who showed no sign of settling for the scoreless draw that would have been enough for them to progress.
(17) There’s a liquid verve to the way Rogic moves that marks him out as the shout-out-loud star on which the next generation of Socceroos World Cup group stage exits should be built.
(18) Was it good that the Verve's comeback wasn't neat and tidy?
(19) The initial uptake of P and increase of n was more obvious in verve endings of the large muscle fibres.
(20) I like to create thinkers and variety.” Murray, by now, is beaming and transmitting the verve she had displayed throughout a morning at the Roehampton club when working with a dozen gifted young players brought together by Head.
Vervet
Definition:
(n.) A South African monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus, / Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white.
Example Sentences:
(1) A long-term feeding experiment in vervet monkeys with F. moniliforme MRC 826 and attempts to isolate and chemically characterise the hepatotoxic metabolite(s) produced by this fungus are being continued.
(2) In the vervet monkey, the thalamus is divided into six nuclear groups: anterior, midline, medial, dorsolateral, ventrolateral and posterior.
(3) The output of acid, chloride, sodium and potassium in gastric washings from the Vervet monkey have been measured under basal conditions and while stimulating the secretion with two doses of pentagastrin (one dose submaximal, the other dose supramaximal).
(4) Vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops), Sykes monkeys (C. mitis) and baboons (Papio cynocephalus) all supported low grade infections for periods ranging between four and eight months and subsequently showed evidence of self-cure.
(5) Fifty-nine percent of the vervet patterns have also been described for rhesus monkeys, 63 percent for baboons, and 54 percent for patas.
(6) Possible applications of the model are to the evolution of semantic alarm calls in vervet monkeys and the phonetic aspects of human language.
(7) Although an oral dose of 10(9) colone-forming units of the vaccine was nonfatal to vervets, a transient but severe gastrointestinal disturbance resulted in four of 12 animals.
(8) Agglutinins to Leptospira were found at titers of greater than or equal to 1:100 in 150 of 501 (29.9%) vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus) bled within 1 mo of capture in Barbados.
(9) The Stokes' radii were 32A, 34A, and 33A for vervet monkey, baboon, and human CG, respectively.
(10) We have examined the specific 3H-ketanserin binding in various regions of vervet monkey brain to evaluate the hypothesis that dominant and subordinate vervet monkeys differ in CNS 5-HT2 receptor sites.
(11) Since it can be assumed that the animal surviving challenge with the larger inoculum would have survived the smaller dose, we conclude that the immunization procedure protected half of the vervets that were exposed to challenge.
(12) The amplitudes of the circadian maxima of enzyme activity and serum cortisol levels were significantly greater in vervets than in grivets.
(13) Reactivities of some monoclonal antibodies to human lymphocyte surface antigens were tested on vervet monkey peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), using flow cytometry and immunoperoxidase techniques.
(14) In order to trace possible accumulations of mercury, three vervet monkeys received occlusal amalgam fillings, three others maxillary bone implants of amalgam, and three untreated monkeys served as controls.
(15) The effect of delayed replantation and tissue culture as a prevention against root resorption was examined in green Vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops).
(16) Thus the quadrupedal and bipedal abilities of the vervet monkey was reflected in the structure of its brachial plexus.
(17) Accommodative responses to intramuscular pilocarpine were determined in four surgically aniridic vervet monkeys, before and after eight weeks of daily unilateral topical treatment with echothiophate iodide.
(18) Forty-two permanent incisors were extracted from green vervet monkeys and cultivated in Eagle's medium at 37 degrees C using the following culture methods: 1. teeth placed at the bottom of the culture flask; 2. teeth placed in an upright position in the culture flask and supported by an open glass cylinder; 3. teeth placed in an upright position in the culture flask and supported by a semisolid tissue culture medium.
(19) The microflora in the gastrointestinal tracts of wild vervet and samango monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops and C. mitis, respectively) were studied, using fermentation acid analysis, electron microscopy, and culturing methods.
(20) To determine whether apoSAA induction resulted in a displacement of indigenous HDL protein or a change in the subfraction distribution of HDL, we analyzed the characteristics of HDL subfractions in eight vervet monkeys before and 24 hr after apoSAA induction.