Word: vigor
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...Sheridan has pleasant vigor in the earlier, comic scenes. Kent Smith, battling against plot circumstance, simulates some believable confusion and sickness of heart. But both players put up a losing fight against the story's unreality...
...seedsmen were hawking their spring wares with a new peacetime vigor, hoping to keep sales near wartime levels. In the annual carnival of catalogues, the color work was gaudier than ever, the prose more aglow than before with full-bodied, giant varieties of superlatives...
Hold, Enough! In Oldham, England, Actor Antony Oakley, playing Macduff in Macbeth, charged with his dagger, laid on with such vigor that Macbeth was laid up with a five-inch abdominal wound. In Toulon, France, Baritone Fernand Lagarde, carried away by the third act stabbing scene in Bizet's Les Pecheurs de Perles, was carried offstage with a two-inch abdominal wound...
Instead of tearing the lost life of the College into shreds, the veteran has infused it with tremendous new vigor; instead of brooding alone, the veteran has proved false the myth raised about his introspective shell...
...battle of the ports was being fought with fresh vigor. Cartagena, 414 years old and long a sleeper behind ancient, 50-foot-thick walls, had roused itself and gone after business. Its parvenu competitors: Barranquilla and Buenaventura. Stake: the trade between Colombia's rich, highland interior and lands across...