bravura

It's a bravura performance that showcases her facility with melody and arrangement - and she essentially recreates it live on stage at the O2.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Paul McCartney and John Lennon, too, rose fully to the occasion, reeling off such masterworks as “Eleanor Rigby” and “Tomorrow Never Knows,” not to mention a bravura single’s release featuring “Paperback Writer” and “Rain.”

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

Had Brontë survived past 30, she might have worked yet-greater literary marvels, but as it is she left us with “Wuthering Heights,” a bravura work of melodrama published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

"The main thing I wanted was the sense of empathy you felt for Teddy," he said of the lead character, played with characteristic bravura by the always-watchable Jesse Plemons.

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

A marvel, really, the ease with which Dick negotiated changes of mood; in a trice, all trace of meanness, of sullen bravura, had evaporated.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

I have never tried bravuras since I left off masters, and even then I only attempted them under protest.

From Sword and Gown A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

For the Dinkey-Bird's bravuras And staccatos are so sweet— His roulades, appoggiaturas, And robustos so complete, That the youth of every nation— Be they near or far away— Have especial delectation In that gladsome roundelay.

From Love-Songs of Childhood by Eugene Field

I have never cultivated any but the classical style—operas, you know, bravuras and arias, and all that, you know.

From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland

Were not the churches there—Notre Dame de Paris, to name but one—just as much to be execrated for sacrilegious bravuras as Notre Dame de Chartres?

From The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

I beg Tertullian's pardon; but among his many bravuras, he says something about St. Paul's autograph.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener