bravery vs bravado vs bravura
Definitions
noun
- feeling no fear
- a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear
Examples
We have to make a definite move to cross over the boundary from cowardice to bravery.
The judge praised the firefighters for their bravery and devotion to duty.
Small boys waved their hands to us, the water-carrier carrying his tight goat-skin from the wells set his cups a-tinkling, as though by way of a God-speed, and then M'Barak touched his horse with the spur to induce the bravery of a caracole, and led us away from Djedida.
Definitions
noun
- a swaggering show of courage
Examples
His first thought was that of every young man, who blithely thinks to pit the bravado he miscalls courage against every obstacle.
His desperate opponent returns a weak shot or a lob, either of which he puts away with careless bravado.
As a character study, I've often thought this president was the worst of two worlds: a sense of elite Eastern entitlement without the intellectual rigor and Texas bravado minus the bigheartedness.
Definitions
noun
- brilliant and showy technical skill
Examples
He has the more energy, dynamism and bravura of the pair.
The program ended with a free-spirited coda by all the dancers doing this, that, and especially the other, all with happy bravura and to Tchaikovsky.
It's another bravura performance by the master of the police procedural.
