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

In early January, Spiro gave a bravura performance of “Die on This Hill” on Jimmy Fallon’s late-night show; one clip on TikTok has been viewed more than 70 million times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 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 lately made her practise the passages in the Grand Aria, because, if she goes to Italy, it is necessary that she should sing bravuras.

From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Ludwig Nohl

People will not be afraid of cadenzas five minutes long, or of bravuras, every note of which makes one hope it may be the last.

From The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

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

These bravuras of rhetoric are strung together on the thread of a clumsy plot.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black

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