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

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

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

It must not be supposed that because of Sorolla's enormous brio his general way of entrapping nature is brutal.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James