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

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

But few writers could assemble dry facts and telling details with more gusto and brio.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2023

With narrative elegance, formal brio and exquisite feeling, Cooper ushers Felicia into the spotlight and sometimes shunts the attention-hogging Lenny off into the wings.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023

The stallion supplies the vital qualities—the blood, i.e., the vivacity, brio, pace; physical resistance comes from the mare.

From Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution by Rothwell, Fred