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brio

[bree-oh, bree-aw] / ˈbri oʊ, ˈbri ɔ /


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Mr. Jordan tells the story of Eisenhower and Churchill with great brio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

“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

With unapologetic brio, Tortorici, cinematographer Massimiliano Kuveiller and editor Marco Costa empty out their tool kit of angles, splits, tracks, smudges, zooms, smashes, jumps, needle drops, montages and text cards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025

With his fiery vision, his brio of execution, his palette charged with jewelled radiance, Monticelli would have been the man to have changed the official interiors of Paris.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker


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