Crossword clues for virtuosity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Virtuosity \Vir`tu*os"i*ty\, n.
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The quality or state of being a virtuoso; in a bad sense, the character of one in whom mere artistic feeling or [ae]sthetic cultivation takes the place of religious character; sentimentalism.
This famous passage . . . over which the virtuosity of modern times, rejoicing in evil, has hung so fondly.
--C. Kingsley. Virtuosos, collectively.
--Carlyle.An art or study affected by virtuosos.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso.
WordNet
n. technical skill or fluency or style exhibited by a virtuoso
Wikipedia
Virtuosity is a 1995 American science fiction action film directed by Brett Leonard, and starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Howard W. Koch, Jr. served as an executive producer for the film. Virtuosity had an estimated budget of $30 million, but only made $24 million at the domestic box office. The film was released in the United States on August 4, 1995.
Virtuosity is the third album from gospel group, Virtue. This is the first album to feature member Heather Martin who previously replaced original member Shavonne Sampson and the last album to feature member Negelle Sumter who would leave the group before the album's release for personal reasons but her vocals still appear on majority of the albums and is credited in the groups Thank Yous. Singles released off the album include, a remix version of "He's Been Good", "Till You Believe", "Gotta Worship" and "Down on My Knees"
Usage examples of "virtuosity".
An upright semi-grand piano near the door, flanked by two palms in pots, executed suddenly all by itself a valse tune with aggressive virtuosity.
He must have heard from Pinn or someone that a djinni of incredible virtuosity had been captured and guessed at once that I was the one who stole the Amulet.
The poet feels that he is addressing people to whom poetry means something, and it is a fact that poets who are used to broadcasting can read into the microphone with a virtuosity they would not equal if they had a visible audience in front of them.
She arrived from Spain with the disassembled parts of a clavichord, which she put together herself, and various string instruments that she played and taught with great virtuosity.
They were too intent on the stirring brassiness of trumpets and trombones, the throaty wailing of Porculata's bagpiping, and the sheer virtuosity of Freddy's scat-singing, which brought it all together.
The diploma that certified her as a concert clavichordist was ratified by the virtuosity with which she executed popular melodies of the seventeenth century at the gathering organized to celebrate the completion of her studies and with which the period of mourning came to in end.
I would have thought that he was too drunk to recite a limerick but he sounded off endlessly, in perfect scansion with complex inner rhymes and rippling alliterations, an astounding feat of virtuosity in rhetoric.
His last post had been as an assault shuttle section leader aboard the big Marine attack transport Leutzen, where his piloting virtuosity had no doubt been properly appreciated.
He played his bozouki with such vibrant virtuosity that he seemed to be playing three, and he could induce even the Germans to put their arms about each others' shoulders and dance in a circle with motions of the feet like the impatient pawings of a horse.
String quintets from effete Phansure had been all the rage in social circles for some little time, and it was through one such prestigious group that a Phansure composer had been obtained and commissioned by Queen Wilhulmia herself to compose a work for Gharm-harp and orchestra that would encourage the patriotism of Ahabar while displaying the virtuosity of Stenta Thilion.
They even forgot his insignificant appearance in the virtuosity with which he ran and poised and swooped upon the cold inflectionless wire of his voice, so that at last, when with a sort of swooping glide he came to rest again beside the reading desk with one arm resting upon it at shoulder height and his monkey body as reft of all motion as a mummy or an emptied vessel, the congregation sighed as if it waked from a collective dream and moved a little in its seats.
Never was the virtuosity of a senior Corps diplomat more brilliantly displayed than in Ambassador Spradley's negotiation of the awkward Sirenian Question .
Never was the virtuosity of a senior Corps diplomat more brilliantly displayed than in Ambassador Spradley's negotiation of the awkward Sirenian Question .