brio

Example Sentences

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“Troublemaker” logs Mitford’s travels and transformations with brio, even while Ms. Kaplan details accounts of the civil-rights causes Mitford threw herself into.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

He’s played with oft-drunken brio by Nick Offerman, whose voice Makowsky says he heard in his head as soon as he started writing the role: “I was like, it has to be Nick Offerman.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

She noted, however, that the "the novel is stripped of the endless, inventive discursions into folk-tale, backstory and verbal brio that characterise the best of Marquez".

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2024

The Shangri-Las had six Top 40 singles between 1964 and 1966, all produced with brio by Mr. Morton.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2024

Doesn’t con brio mean—well, what the devil does it mean?

From A Book of Burlesques by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)