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Read more reviews by Stephanie ZacharekThe first third of Malcolm & Marie has some wit and verve, and style to spare.

If you can ignore the author’s motive for creating such a sensitive and endearing cad, you’ll find here a novel that explores the demands of acting and the delusions of manhood with tremendous verve and insight.

Certainly Stevenson’s novels and stories exhibit extraordinary verve, whether depicting many-sided characters, richly atmospheric settings or political history.

It’s another example of Franciacorta that packs verve and excitement near champagne levels at a more affordable price.

He is a turnaround artist with astonishing verve and little apparent fear.

But Byrne himself is the parodist, and he commands the stage by his hollow-eyed, frosty verve.

A new history tells their remarkable story with sensitivity and verve writes Wendy Smith.

Students, meanwhile, approached the book with greater verve than ever.

And so the question now is not only whether Ryan can reenergize the Romney campaign with his vision and verve.

“He should just write a check and shut up,” Christie responded, with his typical verve.

The pieces themselves were almost worthless; Byron would seem to have lost his verve during the removal.

She played Cupid here with so much verve, point, impudence and sprightliness, that other Cupids were created for her.

A sparkling society tale, full of verve and pathos, would have been another thing, and the editor might have been convinced by it.

A long drink of red wine seemed to put him in the best of trim, and he began to fiddle with a verve that was irresistible.

She has all the dreamy, languid grace of the South combined with the verve and force of the North.