Example sentences for: bravura

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

  • The Act I finale, "La Vie Bohème ," [LINK TO AUDIO CLIP] is a rock gloss on the hoariest of musical comedy staples, the bravura laundry list.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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