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brio

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


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All this is conveyed with immense brio, introducing many fascinating insights and characters.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Gawky and bespectacled but with the brio of a scrapper, Pearlman was dressed like a quintessential sports geek: black-and-yellow Pittsburgh Pirates hat and Pittsburgh Maulers shirt, the latter a long-gone professional football team.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 22, 2025

And speaking of Cade, Sessions’ flamboyant performance as the agent of anarchy bounds across the stage with a “Spamalot”-level of madcap brio.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2024

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

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 Huneker, James




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