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impressed the interviewers with his poise and brio
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Massimiliano Allegri will be Milan’s manager for the upcoming season and the 57-year-old has a reputation for sacrificing individual attacking brio for collective defensive solidity.
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Carl Anka, New York Times, 9 June 2025
Perhaps an adherence to Disney’s famously strict rules of the road for presenting its creative products, and/or maybe the smaller-scale economies in this production … whatever the cause, La Mirada’s trademark brio for animating up-beat, up-tempo musical productions is missing.
—Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 10 June 2025
But the twins haven’t lost any of their stylistic brio, upping the ante on gruesome imagery in this much bleaker film.
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 30 May 2025
The untethered, anarchic, comic brio of Robbins’ novels feels incompatible with today’s world, as though the intervening years have been explicitly designed to stamp out this spirit and replace it with something that can be bought and sold, something governable.
—John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
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Carl Anka, New York Times, 9 June 2025
Perhaps an adherence to Disney’s famously strict rules of the road for presenting its creative products, and/or maybe the smaller-scale economies in this production … whatever the cause, La Mirada’s trademark brio for animating up-beat, up-tempo musical productions is missing.
—Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 10 June 2025
But the twins haven’t lost any of their stylistic brio, upping the ante on gruesome imagery in this much bleaker film.
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 30 May 2025
The untethered, anarchic, comic brio of Robbins’ novels feels incompatible with today’s world, as though the intervening years have been explicitly designed to stamp out this spirit and replace it with something that can be bought and sold, something governable.
—John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
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“Brio.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brio. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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