Example sentences for: bravura

How can you use “bravura” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • New York 's Stevens turns up the volume on the Tiepolo hype: Tiepolo "paints as a stylish swordsman might kill, with a flashing wrist; he gives us flourishes, a kind of whistling-through-the-air bravura, as if to say, 'Of course!

  • And sequences of the great lizard winding among skyscrapers as if they're hedges in a lawn maze--his tail sheering off floors as it whips around corners--have been engineered with bravura.

  • Leonardo's "flying machine" would not have flown, but that hardly counts against its visual bravura; one version resembled a calabash shell crossed with a windmill, and another, a four-winged butterfly.

  • Men of presidential quality tend to be arrogant, with a sense of "entitlement and lordly expectation" (David Remnick, The New Yorker ). The best example of presidential bravura ever: When told of John F. Kennedy's womanizing, Lyndon Johnson responded, "God damn it, I had more women by accident than he ever had by design!"

  • All the more reason, perhaps, to insist on a little more bravura individuality on the part of our world leaders.


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