How To Use Bravura In A Sentence
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He has the more energy, dynamism and bravura of the pair.
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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.
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It's another bravura performance by the master of the police procedural.
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Maybe, but I find the bravura in the C major one for sopranino recorder even more remarkable.
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He achieved recognition with the bravura Stag at Sharkey's (1907; Cleveland, Mus. of Art), a vivid representation of an illegal prizefight.
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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
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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
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Arpeggios of diminished 7ths rushing up and down the keyboard are the main - indeed the only - motive in this bravura piece.
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Lovely, to be sure, but if it wasn't accepted as being classic, it would upset those more obdurate imbibers with its bravura.
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Be dazzled by the physical bravura of the stunts from this Argentinian theatrical circus troupe.
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He sings splendidly and cavorts camply with bravura.
The Sun
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I'm not surprised by her bravura performance.
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He had won the British Grand Prix 48 hours previously with a series of bravura performances, outrageous even.
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When they do get around to it, they perform some of the most inventive numbers ever put on film - their bravura roller-skate through Central Park and Fred's romp in an immaculate white engine room accompanied by an ensemble of black stokers.
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It certainly benefits from the addition of qualities previously rare in his work: robust pacing, greater narrative coherence and a series of bravura performances.
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It might be a pool of coloured light that takes off onto a bravura progression through garish washes of colour - a chase scene through the industrial port-side lit as a progression through hot orange-red, a cold hazy blue and a bilious green.
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Not even a bravura turn by one of the most charismatic actors of his generation can relieve the torpor.
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The film is directed with a technical bravura and visual splendour.
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Gahan's voice sounds very clean and warm as opposed to the bravura that occupies much of his vocals and performance.
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It is the wit that does the real damage in this bravura display of finely controlled outrage.
The Times Literary Supplement
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But his uninhibitedness also takes the form of sheer stylistic bravura, the dazzling facility, note-spinning mastery and heedless creative enthusiasm of the Russian.
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As far as a show of bombastic masculine bravura was concerned, this was a total flop.
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Riding high after her bravura last-minute headline slot at Glastonbury.
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Cuius animam gementem, with its soft martial rhythm and bravura high D-flat, its ariosi redolent with Italian bel canto, Mozart, and Gluck.
Audiophile Audition Headlines
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Their bravura performances never came about from actually working off each other, they simply found the heart and soul of their characters from the material.
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The aroma possesses a vanillic bravura that is woody, slightly anisic and lavender-infused, generating the sense of violet as a color rather than a flavor.
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The film is directed with a technical bravura and visual splendour.
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The recital ended with a blazing bravura display.
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the music ends with a display of bravura
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Bale needed a bravura performance against Madrid's most intense rivals.
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When reading, hearing or viewing art, we are drawn to bravura performances, I think, by an essentially primitive approval of self-possession wherever it may be found.
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On the roof of an opposite house are two cats, performing what an amateur of music might perhaps call a bravura duet; near them appears
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency
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We peer through it into another world, while we applaud its bravura performance in this one.
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Her voice, though sweet, is not so fit to warb - le those _bravuras_ (which I still am learning
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
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It's another bravura performance by the master of the police procedural.
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Cadenza, the Italian word for cadence, is the name given to an unaccompanied bravura passage introduced at or near the close of a movement as a brilliant climax, particularly in solo concertos of a virtuoso character where the element of display is prominent.
The Valiant Woman | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
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The Yankees wore caps honouring New York rescue workers and put singing firemen and policemen at home plate to give bravura performances of national anthems official and unofficial.
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Barber's boundless melodic inspiration takes inspired flight from the surging opening movement through the moving, poignant Andante and rousing bravura finale.
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Yet his bravura display in Australia was no flash in the pan, rather a return to form.
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Four years in the making, the film is a jaw-dropping spectacle, with one bravura sequence topping the one before.
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If you read aloud his best passages, which are written in what he calls his bravura style, you have a near approach to the music of the organ.
Modern English Books of Power
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Bravura brushwork and florid lines characterize the rigorous and dazzling craftsmanship evident in each of the portraits, cityscapes and elaborate figure compositions that were on view.
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Yet beneath Howard's rhetorical bravura, you sense a genuine fear of death.
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The album's final song, then, is also its centerpiece, summarizing its narrative and musical arcs in one bravura performance.
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The other big question mark was Olga Borodina, whose vocal and physical glamour is real but not the sort one associates with the technical bravura and pinpoint articulation needed for one of Rossini's resourceful mezzo minxes.
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In any event, it was a bravura performance, a long extempore speech, apparently pulled out of thin air.
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Un uomo dalla cultura gigantesca, dall'umanit senza confronti, dalla bravura unica, dalla facilit nella scrittura che ha sempre superato tutti quelli criminal i quali ho collaborato.
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It was an Oscar-winning, bravura performance.
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in a final bravura the ballerina appeared to be floating in water
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He shrank from the bravura and slashing impasto of his master Rembrandt, and imposed a glassy surface on his paintwork.
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We celebrate seven weeks of nail-biting finishes and bravura performances that made the sporting summer of 2005 so glorious and so unforgettable
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The most theatrical thing about "Tynan" is the gem-cut sentences within which Tynan performed; they are crafty, bravura events, detonations of deadly wit and mordancy.
'Tynan': A show to please the critic
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The play's title refers to Kristallnacht, it's set in 1938, and it solves the mystery of why Sylvia has lost the use of her legs: Thanks to these dazzling performances, you can just about accept Miller's slightly humorless conclusion, conveyed in typical bravura fashion by Mr. Sher, that her illness is caused by the Hitler that lurks inside every impotent, self-hating Jewish husband.
The Witty Bits of a Play
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The work is a sophisticated, synoptic genre piece, its composition and bravura brushwork invoking forerunners from flashy late Mannerists to late Baroque virtuosos such as Crespi or Piazzetta.
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It was a bravura performance totally out of keeping with his usual sober, sombre approach to both football and life.
The Sun
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Dragicevic's combination of bleached-out chroma, lack of bravura and resurrected idioms makes for commendably uningratiating paintings.
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It capped another bravura performance in a season in which he is reaching new heights.
The Sun
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It was a bravura performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Riding high after her bravura last-minute headline slot at Glastonbury.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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In a bravura distillation of possibilities, each painting creates one geometric set out of a series of curves: first a triangle, then a set of squares, then a pentagon, then an ever-expanding set of red quatrefoils.
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It's all tone with Chopin -- _tone_, my child, even in the most bravura passages.
Sacred and Profane Love
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Make for the West Front and admire its bravura baroque architecture.
Times, Sunday Times
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I didn't have a clue about what Jim was saying, and I'm not sure Mr. Coe did either, but at the end of his bravura performance I got my grade changed.
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It was a bravura performance totally out of keeping with his usual sober, sombre approach to both football and life.
The Sun
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The seven types of aria are: Aria Cantabile; Aria di portamento; Aria di mezzo carattere; Aria parlante; Aria di bravura; Aria di agilita;
Notes on ''An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley's Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa'
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Despite his bravura, Che's father, like many dabblers, never found real success, and the Guevaras weren't wealthy, whatever their pedigree.
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In these works from 1991, large-scale sheets and smaller works on paper executed in etching and aquatint, he employs an eloquent Picasso-like line with masterful draftsmanship and bravura, giving sly reference to Picasso, Dali, Velazquez, etc.
Bill Bush: I Shot Andy Warhol: This Artweek.LA (June 13-19)
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I feel a little churlish raising this because they were certainly an enjoyable pair to watch and undoubtedly gave everything to achieve really bravura performances.
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The masts add structural and sculptural bravura to the rather staid skyline, a gesture - as in some of Richard Rogers' works - of futuristic optimism.
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She is looking forward to the ceremony, when she plans to raise the bar for awards winners everywhere with a bravura performance of wheezing - culminating in her giving her acceptance speech from the back of an ambulance while on a ventilator.
Winslet Nominated for Further Award
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The kind of bravura, firecracker performance that weary lobby correspondents had thought had long since been consigned to the romance of history.
High Society
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Her voice, though sweet, is not so fit to warb -- le those bravuras (which I still am learning
Don Juan
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Not even a bravura turn by one of the most charismatic actors of his generation can relieve the torpor.
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The clarity of articulation in the finale is the kind of miracle that we have come to expect from this source - it takes the breath away as an act of shocking intention rather than bravura display.
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Indeed, his work has actually been criticised for placing too great an emphasis on bravura technical skills at the expense of these other properties.
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Bogosian's demanding, bravura performance truly runs the full gamut of emotions and really adds dimension and depth to what could have been a totally one-note character and role.
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In the finale we have Catharine in the mad scene, singing the scena, "L'aurora alfin succede," with bits of the old music running through the accompaniment; and in the final scene, as her reason returns, breaking out in the florid bravura, "Non s'ode alcun," accompanied by the first and second flutes, which is a triumph of virtuosity for the voice.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
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The arias contained in the work are dominantly of two types, the aria di bravura, with rich coloratura elements, and the aria parlante, in declamatory vocal style.
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It's action sequences, basically 2 hrs of its 2 hr. 45 min running time, are bravura for sure.
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In everything that Mr. Smith attempts, in all his "bravura" passages, serious or comic, one is always shocked by some affectation or absurdity; something in direct defiance of all those principles which have been established by the authority of the best critics, and the example of the best writers: indeed, bad taste seems to be Mr. Smith's evil genius, both as to sentiment and expression.
Famous Reviews
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The Observations is an astonishing imaginative feat, brilliantly written in bravura, bawdy style ...
The Observations: Summary and book reviews of The Observations by Jane Harris.
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The men erupt in a macho display of technical bravura that builds (to drums) as if they are possessed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though despair at his material sometimes makes him bellow, he gives a bravura performance that transmutes pointlessness into poignancy.
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An austere bravura exhibition for six dancers, it offers a series of solos of ever-increasing technical demands.
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Its dazzling chiaroscuro and painterly bravura surpass his earlier performances.
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The two, Deirdre and Tina, were a striking contrast - the one so bravura, the other so understated.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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Last spring, in a bravura display of clout, the industry succeeded in ramming a sweetheart deal through the Florida legislature that gives Big Sugar more time to clean up its act.
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The artist used bravura painterly techniques to depict comic-book-style characters, many of whom had buck-toothed, doggish muzzles and half-rounded, Mickey-like eyes.
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The Broken Road includes a number of bravura set pieces.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Caravaggio returns to the half-length format of his early genre scenes, but all naturalistic bravura and illusionistic detail are gone.
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This is primarily a Delightful Precipice album, with much bravura contrapuntal writing and Django's vision more focused than ever.
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The seven types of aria are: Aria Cantabile; Aria di portamento; Aria di mezzo carattere; Aria parlante; Aria di bravura; Aria di agilita;
Notes on ''An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley's Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa'
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There were also many in academia and the literary world who admired the bravura style and intellectual heft of his poetry, plays and essays.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rome, with characteristic bravura, solved its food supply problem on a grand scale - by constructing the largest and most impressive sea-port of the ancient world.
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My actual reason for reading Rookwood is that it appears in Jacqueline Rayner's Doctor Who audio play, The Doomwood Curse, in which the Sixth Doctor and Charley Pollard are drawn into a world which seems to be based on Ainsworth's novel - particularly recommended because of India Fisher's bravura performance, and you don't need to know anything at all about Rookwood to enjoy the play.
May Books 12) Rookwood, by William Harrison Ainsworth
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It was a bravura performance from a man who crafted himself as a maverick and remains hugely popular.
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There were also many in academia and the literary world who admired the bravura style and intellectual heft of his poetry, plays and essays.
Times, Sunday Times
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The traditional illusionism of the still-life genre (think Zeuxis and Parrhasios as well as de Heem and Chardin) is rejected in favor of bravura flatness and self-revelation of the paint stroke.
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She projects her deepest feelings into bravura performances.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here we interject a perfect bravura of "bravoes," and, stepping boldly up to the front, demand of Professor Bastian to "throw up the sponge," take a back seat, and there -- formulate us a new definition of "life.
Life: Its True Genesis
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This is a piece of bravura acting.
Times, Sunday Times
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This young Chinese clarinettist's recital of potted fantasias on operas by Verdi, Bellini and Ponchielli is bravura fluff.
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But it's a rattling good film that whips you along at a good pace, has some interesting side plots that come back in interesting ways and some bravura camerawork.
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Be dazzled by the physical bravura of the stunts from this Argentinian theatrical circus troupe.
Times, Sunday Times
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Benitez herself seems to have mellowed, employing fewer of her signature bravura zapateados and more of her expressive tilts of the head and slim-waisted torso and dramatic, sudden gestures.
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Mark Wigglesworth has a smile which would beam the most recalcitrant string section into bowing with bravura.
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Part of the delight of watching her pivot gracefully from steely composure to histrionic distress comes from the feeling of witnessing two bravura performances at once.
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That afternoon she gave a bravura performance in the Commons, as she held back the feelings of hurt and betrayal that she inevitably experienced.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a soldier, he exhibited a level of bravery and bravura generally reserved for war movies and folklore.
Siqueiros: Biography of a Revolutionary Artist by D. Anthony White
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A bravura narrative moment reveals itself when he discloses the history of one single apartment, showing how it becomes degraded and denatured as it ceases to be a family home and becomes a drug-dealer's den.
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The actors complement each other perfectly rather than provide a contest and Boyle's production is a bravura triumph in which Mark Tildesley's design provides a whole series of visual coups.
Frankenstein - review
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Tom turns in another bravura performance in this movie, even if his role for the most part calls for more endurance than acting.
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Rarely does a short film display the kind of bravura visual imagination found in “Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl”.
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Before this point's reached, however, we see Medea's conflicting impulses in a performance of bravura strength and delicacy, yet darkly lit with moments of mordant humour.