Example sentences for: bravura

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

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

  • The relish Versace brings to his clear vinyl dresses strewn with rhinestones, or to shiny-colored opaque ones punctuated with nifty cutouts, has traditional bravura and sprezzatura in it, suggesting Bernini at his most outré.

  • He spearheads food drives, and disarms a racist "troublemaker" (Billy Bob Thornton) with show-stopping bravura.

  • 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!"

  • But even those who pan the novel continue to celebrate his "caffeinated prose, his bravura showmanship [and his] ...


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