bravura

Spoiler alert: One awards-season shoo-in is Julianne Moore winning every lead actress prize for her bravura work in this delightful Jesse Eisenberg comedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

It's a bravura performance that showcases her facility with melody and arrangement - and she essentially recreates it live on stage at the O2.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

But his bravura weakened as the conversation continued, and he spoke of his lost dream of being a surgeon, thwarted because his family could not afford school fees.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Had Brontë survived past 30, she might have worked yet-greater literary marvels, but as it is she left us with “Wuthering Heights,” a bravura work of melodrama published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

On August 13, at an S-l meeting on his home turf in Berkeley, Ernest delivered another bravura presentation on the Rad Lab’s progress.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The midnight bravuras at the pianos mixed wildly in my broken dreams.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude

For the Dinkey-Bird's bravuras And staccatos are so sweet— His roulades, appoggiaturas, And robustos so complete, That the youth of every nation— Be they near or far away— Have especial delectation In that gladsome roundelay.

From Love-Songs of Childhood by Eugene Field

These bravuras of rhetoric are strung together on the thread of a clumsy plot.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black

Now go and play and sing something; and mind, I don’t want my ears deafened with fireworks, and the drums split with parrot-shriek bravuras.

From Friends I Have Made by George Manville Fenn

I have never tried bravuras since I left off masters, and even then I only attempted them under protest.

From Sword and Gown A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence