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bravura
[ bruh-vyoor-uh, -voor-uh; Italian brah-voo-rah ]
noun
- Music. a florid passage or piece requiring great skill and spirit in the performer.
- a display of daring; brilliant performance.
bravura
/ brəˈvjʊərə; -ˈvʊərə /
noun
- a display of boldness or daring
- music
- brilliance of execution
- ( as modifier )
a bravura passage
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bravura1
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Example Sentences
Moran does so with fearless honesty and bravura, but admits she was wary about oversharing when she wrote How to Be a Woman.
Even the films a little off the mainstream hype-track have an upbeat bravura, or unexpected hero-on-a-journey.
On the drama side, James Spader breaks into the Best Actor category for his bravura scenery chewing on The Blacklist.
He gives a bravura physical performance of the act of dying that can only have been born of extensive firsthand experience.
It was a perfectly played symphony of silhouette, color, and texture—a bravura performance, an aesthetic rarity.
Frulein Fichtner is more in the bravura than in the sentimental line, and she has a certain breadth, grasp, and freshness.
He sang bravura airs with a facility of vocalisation any prima donna might have envied.
After the overture Signora Palazzesi sang "with a bell-like, magnificent voice, and great bravura."
The brilliant bravura in which you gave the last line, immensely exciting as it was, is not correct.
I had taken refuge from the terrible bravura singing of the Major's strident prima donna in the back drawing-room.
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