bravura

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

Paul McCartney and John Lennon, too, rose fully to the occasion, reeling off such masterworks as “Eleanor Rigby” and “Tomorrow Never Knows,” not to mention a bravura single’s release featuring “Paperback Writer” and “Rain.”

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 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

It’s a chronicle of race history in the late 19th and 20th centuries, with all the unpleasantness, and yet it is an act of poetic aspiration, resignation and bravura aesthetics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 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

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 lately made her practise the passages in the Grand Aria, because, if she goes to Italy, it is necessary that she should sing bravuras.

From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Ludwig Nohl

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

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black

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

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