as in virtuoso
accomplished with trained ability
a truly bravura performance of the ballet that brought the crowd to its feet
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Recent Examples of bravura
An interesting thing to me is that despite all of its bravura filmmaking technique, what makes the film resonate for people to this day is the character work.
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Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
22 June 2026
Yet Disclosure Day also feels as much like an answer to Spielberg’s own War of the Worlds as his 1977 classic — and not just in the heedless forward momentum of its chase-heavy staging, recalling a bravura bit of highway speeding from the 2005 film.
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Jesse Hassenger,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
The stunning cinematography, remarkable intimacy, and bravura formal execution of the film are incredible to behold, to say nothing of the music itself, which is absolutely banging.
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Hilary Lewis,
HollywoodReporter,
11 June 2026
A lot of their work had nothing to do with smoothing out wires or big leaps across buildings in bravura fight sequences.
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Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
3 June 2026
Serpell is also a sometime film critic for the Review, contributing considerations of Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You, Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, and a bravura essay about Émile Zola and the movie Zola.
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Namwali Serpell,
The New York Review of Books,
9 Apr. 2026
The most eye-catching part of his work is his bravura treatment of light and shadow, an aspect of the style known as preciosismo in Spanish, in which he was much influenced by Fortuny.
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Benjamin Lima
special Contributor,
Dallas Morning News,
18 Mar. 2026
Ford put in a bravura performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2026
The many years spent pondering and preparing for a potential attack on Iran are the reason that the first days of the war were, for the most part, a bravura display of American power.
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Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
11 Mar. 2026
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
22 June 2026
Yet Disclosure Day also feels as much like an answer to Spielberg’s own War of the Worlds as his 1977 classic — and not just in the heedless forward momentum of its chase-heavy staging, recalling a bravura bit of highway speeding from the 2005 film.
—
Jesse Hassenger,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
The stunning cinematography, remarkable intimacy, and bravura formal execution of the film are incredible to behold, to say nothing of the music itself, which is absolutely banging.
—
Hilary Lewis,
HollywoodReporter,
11 June 2026
A lot of their work had nothing to do with smoothing out wires or big leaps across buildings in bravura fight sequences.
—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
3 June 2026
Serpell is also a sometime film critic for the Review, contributing considerations of Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You, Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, and a bravura essay about Émile Zola and the movie Zola.
—
Namwali Serpell,
The New York Review of Books,
9 Apr. 2026
The most eye-catching part of his work is his bravura treatment of light and shadow, an aspect of the style known as preciosismo in Spanish, in which he was much influenced by Fortuny.
—
Benjamin Lima
special Contributor,
Dallas Morning News,
18 Mar. 2026
Ford put in a bravura performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2026
The many years spent pondering and preparing for a potential attack on Iran are the reason that the first days of the war were, for the most part, a bravura display of American power.
—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
11 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bravura
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Thanks to more than 200 years of intense and virtuoso scientific work, what were once valid or at least plausible concerns and objections to vaccines have been overcome.
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A lot of the movie feels like a virtuoso chase sequence, people barreling down the road, guns blazing.
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Drawn to an artistic path, the NYC native attended the prestigious LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan.
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This year’s milestone edition furthers that legacy by pairing foundational film voices with the next generation of artistic troublemakers.
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Come for the subtle performances and Agnès Godard’s masterful cinematography; stay for one of the greatest endings in movie history.
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Long-form, famously practiced by the masterful TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi (coming soon to the Goodman Theatre), features performers who can spin one line of dialogue, or merely a location, into a spontaneous hour.
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There’s likely to be grasping, resisting, skillful and futile efforts to swim and worry about what’s up ahead.
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One of the few calls of the night was from Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault, ready to get his hands on the skillful point guard.
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The chips beneath were noticeably thin, delicate but sturdy enough to retain their crunch.
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The war remains in a delicate ceasefire while both sides attempt to broker a permanent peace deal.
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