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Examples of brio in a Sentence
impressed the interviewers with his poise and brio
Recent Examples of brio from the Web
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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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Certainly, the anti-liberals, or, in Harari’s case, post-humanists, have much the better of the rhetorical energy and polemical brio.
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Origin and Etymology of brio
Italian
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