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brio

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


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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

My experience didn’t quite live up to Rich’s lavish praise, but I was indeed dazzled by Greenberg’s New York wit, which struck me as an acutely sensitive, off-angle version of George S. Kaufman’s Broadway brio.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 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

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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