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Mon 13 Apr, 2015 10:50 am
Does "with such verve and frequent insight" mean "in a poetic way and with insights that enlighten us frequently"?
Context:
"[The author] writes with such verve and frequent insight that even
skeptical readers will find it hard to put down."
!aDanil Blue, San Francisco Chronicle
@oristarA,
Verve means energy, dash, brio. What does your dictionary say?
Otherwise you are on the right track with this.
@McTag,
Brio!
I've learnd of a new word.
@oristarA,
Borrowed from the Italian language, of course.
(The English are shameless borrowers.)
"
con brio" is a much-used musical term.
@McTag,
McTag wrote:
Borrowed from the Italian language, of course.
(The English are shameless borrowers.)
"con brio" is a much-used musical term.
So are poco rallentando and legato, they (and many others) used to be in my London County Council school hymn book.
@contrex,
Not too many been adopted into the main language, though, like brio. Crescendo is another.
And let's not forget tutti-frutti, from the world of icecream.
@McTag,
McTag wrote:Crescendo is another.
Which many people get wrong.
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