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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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Ironically, the film is conspicuous not for its brio but its blandness.
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But shocks of acid color hint at the couple’s unmistakably modern Southern California brio.
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As portrayed with loose-limbed brio by recent Salem State University graduate Chris Kandra (a find), Gerry is one of those rogues who seems to believe his own blarney.
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Though the score evokes spirituals, jazz, folk songs, ragtime and Dixieland, the elements of musical theater came through most strongly in this performance, led with brio by Stephen Lord.
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The horrifying moment reflected how the meticulous criminal — whom investigators strongly suspected had law enforcement connections — taunted his pursuers with catch-me-if-you-can brio.
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This was not the first time Biden has used some brio and bravado to talk about Trump.
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The difference between her fiction and nonfiction is akin to the one between practice and theory, or between a swim in a mountain lake and a lecture, delivered with unexpected brio and occasional thunder, on the properties of water.
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The album, which was recorded in the midst of a tour, captures the band playing with serious heat and interactive brio.
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Origin and Etymology of brio
Italian
brio Synonyms
Synonyms
beans, bounce, dash, drive, dynamism, energy, esprit, gas, get-up-and-go, ginger, go, gusto, hardihood, life, moxie, oomph, pep, punch, sap, snap, starch, verve, vigor, vim, vinegar, vitality, zing, zip;
Antonyms
Near Antonyms
debilitation, debility, delicacy, disablement, enfeeblement, faintness, feebleness, frailness, frailty, impotence, impotency, infirmity, powerlessness, puniness, slightness, softness, tenderness, weakness;
Related 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;
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