[ US /bɹəvˈjʊɹə/ ]
[ UK /bɹævjˈɔːɹɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. brilliant and showy technical skill
    in a final bravura the ballerina appeared to be floating in water
    the music ends with a display of bravura
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How To Use bravura In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • Maybe, but I find the bravura in the C major one for sopranino recorder even more remarkable.
  • He achieved recognition with the bravura Stag at Sharkey's (1907; Cleveland, Mus. of Art), a vivid representation of an illegal prizefight.
  • That monotony of form, those commonplace cadenzas, those endless bravura passages introduced at haphazard irrespective of the dramatic situation, that recurrent _crescendo_ that Rossini brought into vogue, are now an integral part of every composition; those vocal fireworks result in a sort of babbling, chattering, vaporous mucic, of which the sole merit depends on the greater or less fluency of the singer and his rapidity of vocalization. Gambara
  • Both musicians relished the dancing hemiola figures in the third movement, shifts of the downbeat between duple and triple groupings, and played with impressive bravura and accuracy. Music review: Zuill Bailey and Orion Weiss at the Kennedy Center
  • Arpeggios of diminished 7ths rushing up and down the keyboard are the main - indeed the only - motive in this bravura piece.
  • Lovely, to be sure, but if it wasn't accepted as being classic, it would upset those more obdurate imbibers with its bravura.
  • Be dazzled by the physical bravura of the stunts from this Argentinian theatrical circus troupe. Times, Sunday Times
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