What is "bravura"

Usage examples of "bravura".

Il Generale Haricot, che non mancava di una certa bravura, degna di miglior causa, assaliva francamente le posizioni dei liberali colla sua vanguardia in catena, sostenendola lui stesso con piccole colonne in massa.

Boomer would ball her with bravura once he got homealthough the hour of his homecomings seemed to be inching steadily in the direction of sunrise.

The mushrooms, the fetishes, the wool and the wine, the mascara jars, the poppies, the crickets, the poison arrows, the bravura helixes of juicy smoke all spun like the stars: onward, outward, inward, backward, sideways, upside down, and forever.

She sings with Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Schumann, indulges the introspection of Chopin and bravura of Berlioz, puts up with Lisztian pyrotechnics, and arrives too quickly at Brahms, the most unbearably beautiful of all.

Tuckwell, I felt remorse scatter in instrumental brilliance, bravura trills, shakes, flourishes, demisemiquavers.

The difficulty of satisfying the constraints of variation within the bravura of overture or the rigor of fugue is considerable.

But the cutlass thrust through his belt was as much the symbol of her own unrealized potential, of the castration of her mental bravura, as it was the emblem of the male phallus.

He sang it with all the astringent bravura of the maestro, and Helen Schlegel called encore so enthusiastically that he did a repeat performance.

Having established this elaborate, bizarre scenario, Ruff gives a bravura performance, right from the opening pages, where we watch Andy and his multiples sharing a single breakfast.

But she soon had it reasoned out that her preconceptions in this regard were no doubt due to the stylizing nature of the mythopoeic process itself, which simplified character and motive just as it compressed time and space, so that one imagined Perseus to be speeding tirelessly and thoughtlessly from action to bravura action, when in fact he must have weeks of idleness, hours of indecision, et cetera.

The consul designate, Gaius Silius, was presiding over the chamber with another of his bravura performances at the dais.

Terry lowered himself into the water graduallynone of those bravura dives off the pool edge for himand began the first of thirty slow, laborious lengths.

At a thousand feet above them the disc went into a bravura display of falling-leaf motion, finally swooping around the platform until it came to rest a few meters above and a meter out from the safety rail.

His father, possibly the greatest master of Bravura style, had started training him when he barely breeched.

Benito, presenting his back to several half-raised firearms in a show of the bravura that had once made him the talk of Venice.