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impressed the interviewers with his poise and brio
Recent Examples of brio from the Web
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BRIO’s recipe calls for dressing the croutons first to soften.
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One of those big events this season is a battle whose sheer scope, even before being cut together with the show’s typical brio, dazzled me.
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The book is a neat piece of narrative history, told with exceptional brio.
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There was decidedly less enthusiasm for the brio mustered by former Democratic Chairman John Burton, who flipped President Trump the double-bird at a recent state party convention and led a crowd chant of the f-bomb.
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A show with less pure brio would have shown us Nora’s trip to the parallel universe, rather than trusting its actor to sell the journey, and the harder journey back.
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An obnoxious conductor, Maestro Helmut Wellauer, is found poisoned to death, and the subsequent drama unfolds with operatic brio.
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A lot of brio is required to put it quite so pithily.
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Ayyad’s brio and Mr. Majdalani’s richly textured...
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brio Synonyms
Synonyms
beans, bounce, vigor, dash, drive, dynamism, energy, esprit, gas, get-up-and-go, ginger, go, gusto, hardihood, juice, life, moxie, oomph, pep, punch, sap, snap, starch, verve, vim, vinegar, vitality, zing, zipAntonyms
lethargy, listlessness, sluggishness, torpidityRelated Words
animal spirits, animation, briskness, jauntiness, liveliness, snappiness, spirit, spiritedness, sprightliness, spunk, spunkiness, vibrance, vibrancy, vivaciousness, vivacity; ardor, élan, fervor, fire, passion, zeal; main, metal, mettle, might, muscle, potency, power, puissance, stamina, strength; brawniness, fitness, hardiness, huskiness, sturdiness, virility; health, healthiness, soundness, verdure, wellnessNear Antonyms
indolence, laziness; debilitation, debility, delicacy, disablement, enfeeblement, faintness, feebleness, frailness, frailty, impotence, impotency, infirmity, powerlessness, puniness, slightness, softness, tenderness, weakness; enervation, exhaustion, inanition, prostrationBRIO Defined for English Language Learners
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