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US
/vɝtʃuˈɑsɪti/
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[ UK /vˌɜːtjuːˈɒsɪti/ ]
[ UK /vˌɜːtjuːˈɒsɪti/ ]
NOUN
- technical skill or fluency or style exhibited by a virtuoso
How To Use virtuosity In A Sentence
- Featuring Simpson's virtuosity on guitar, banjo and ukulele, this collection of songs and tunes, mainly recorded in New Orleans, is a homage to the American South.
- Beats me, but I guess it means a figure of that stature and not, as you say, someone who invented a genre out of his own protean imagination and virtuosity, all of which is just so alien to the idea of electronica to begin with. Hamster; Dance – The Bleat.
- Quite a few of them would even stub out their cigarettes so enraptured, and intimidated, would they be by the blizzard of technical virtuosity that we, today, take for granted. Debra Levine: Ballets Russes Updated: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Turns 15
- Best of all, Germany's crackerjack Ensemble Modern played the luminous score with extraordinary virtuosity.
- Other people see talent and virtuosity; I see a narcissist who's phoning it in.
- Musical training is, of course, what goes on in our conservatories, and at its most fruitful it produces instrumental technicians of an astonishing virtuosity.
- But almost always from both there is evidence that fiercely alert predatory instinct is allied with genuine virtuosity. Times, Sunday Times
- Most of all, he shows a flair for matching the climaxes in the action with musical climaxes, using dissonance, the singer's virtuosity, or instrumental sonorities to create the sense of heightened emotion.
- And it's always entertaining to be awed by the men's breakdancing virtuosity. Times, Sunday Times
- With such diverse output as her world music album Where Rivers Meet an evocation of her Bengali connections, with clarinettist brother Idris and the thrilling jazz virtuosity of her trio's recent live recording, pianist Zoe Rahman covers plenty of contemporary bases. This week's new live music