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US
/bɹəvˈjʊɹə/
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[ UK /bɹævjˈɔːɹɐ/ ]
[ UK /bɹævjˈɔːɹɐ/ ]
NOUN
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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
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