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The pair is seen crawling through a wildflower field, dancing, and jumping, but also hollering at each other, brandishing knives, and at some point, Lawrence licks a window with zeal.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
5 Sep. 2025 -
Because of this zeal, others are ready to listen to you and, perhaps, follow your lead.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
4 Sep. 2025
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The county Board of Supervisors directed the changes in response to concerns that had long existed for a small faction of grassroots activists but took on new fervor after the 2024 election — when voters installed three new Republican members of the board.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The 1960s marked a significant pivot in cultural mores, from the adherence to convention both socially and stylistically at the dawn of the decade to the age of antiestablishment fervor and personal empowerment as the period progressed.—
Viju Mathew,
Robb Report,
8 Sep. 2025
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Djokovic’s shots were not quite on-target early and, but for a brief interlude in the second set, his usual verve was not present.—
Howard Fendrich,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
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And yet there’s an unquestionable high-tech Zen verve to the space.—
Anthony Paletta,
Curbed,
2 Sep. 2025
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My experience didn’t quite live up to Rich’s lavish praise, but I was indeed dazzled by Greenberg’s New York wit, which struck me as an acutely sensitive, off-angle version of George S. Kaufman’s Broadway brio.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 July 2025
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Perhaps an adherence to Disney’s famously strict rules of the road for presenting its creative products, and/or maybe the smaller-scale economies in this production … whatever the cause, La Mirada’s trademark brio for animating up-beat, up-tempo musical productions is missing.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
10 June 2025
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Their gusto, confidence and can-do attitude show their desire to excel.—
Lisa Stardust,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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But as people have returned to the skies with gusto in the aftermath of the pandemic, both airlines have improved their efforts to celebrate travelers who achieve million-miler status.—
Katherine Fan,
AFAR Media,
29 Aug. 2025
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When beating, whip with vigor using a fork instead of a whisk.—
Megan Zhang,
Saveur,
4 Sep. 2025
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The Gilded Heiress dips into the world of the wealthy, but its primary focus is on the working-class, which Shupe renders with electric vigor in a genre so often dominated by those breathing rarefied air.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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In her method of evasion, Bailey soon began to develop an ardor for book collecting.—
Olivia Cyrus,
Sacbee.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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To Kivel’s credit, these passages on the ardor of creation are some of the only parts of the book that seem based on a writer’s life.—
Lora Kelley,
New Yorker,
7 Aug. 2025
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That may get them guest slots to rant on MSNBC, but that won’t help Chicago neighborhoods that are being held hostage by homegrown criminals who are shooting, carjacking and robbing them of their security and vitality.—
Laura Washington,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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Solnicki’s Vienna is not the city of Strauss and café culture, but one drained of vitality.—
Leila Latif,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
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“élan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9lan. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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