(n.) A florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music.
Example Sentences:
(1) But even more than this bravura dramatic writing, the story of Dr Rieux's selfless struggle with the illness, and the different responses of other citizens, colleagues and chance acquaintances, unfolds an urgent allegory of war.
(2) He proposed to her, with typical Thorpe bravura, on top of the Post Office tower.
(3) Tawney's bravura prose style certainly contributed to my enthusiasm for the fundamental truths that the book sets out.
(4) In 1975 Richardson lent his astonishing verbal bravura, seeming to take long speeches on a single breath, to Berowne in Love's Labour's Lost.
(5) Look out for the bravura party scene, cut to Carl Douglas's Kung Fu Fighting, which marks the beginning of all-out war.
(6) Michael Gove, education secretary and Cameron confidant, gave a bravura condemnation of more regulation of the press (as opposed to criminal charges, when merited).
(7) They were abject in losing 6-1, undone by Bayern’s ruthless exposing of weakness on the flanks via classically Guardiola-ish switches of play and a bravura performance of centre-forward craft and strength from Robert Lewandowski.
(8) Proud to be a "provincial" writer, in his novel Kept (2006) Taylor begins with a bravura passage describing his home county: "A land of winding backroads and creaking carts and windmills, a land of flood, and eels and elvers and all that comes from water, a land of silence and subterfuge, of things not said but only whispered, where much is kept secret which would be better laid open to scrutiny."
(9) He was outstanding in both, but his bravura left vague the question of just how good the films were.
(10) It begins in bravura style with sirens and a clap of thunder, and then – judging by the excerpts we hear – is thrillingly noisy and aggressive, indeed a return to the familiar Wu landscape of sinister soul samples, whiplash drums, and dire threats and imprecations, updated with the occasional reference to Harry Potter.
(11) It says much for Floyd's bravura that he succeeded where many Englishmen have failed.
(12) And for all Ukip's talk, when its small business spokesperson has his restaurant raided for employing illegal immigrants it is clear their bravura lacks substance.
(13) It was a bravura performance in which he gave a nod to the "famous 50" (later 60) chosen to meet the health secretary.
(14) The book, meant to be a prelude to Ryan’s 2016 comeback (the last chapter, a bit of Reagan nostalgerotica, is literally titled “The Comeback”) offers little more than the depressingly predictable, coming far short of his Republican National Convention speech’s bravura performance of making shit up , about which groups like Politifact could have saved themselves time by simply verifying the few words in it that were not untrue.
(15) Despite the bravura performance, Burnham did not receive effusive support from Ed Miliband during the question-and-answer session that followed shadow cabinet speeches.
(16) Lee’s fortunes as a politician benefitted from his bravura courtroom performances.
(17) There's a bravura turn from New Yorker A$AP Rocky and his crew, who surge on to the stage for a few rap verses, and a wonderfully odd finale involving a hooded steel pan player and Moore himself bounding down from his vehicle to the front of the stage, where he wrings out a high-drama punk-metal guitar solo.
(18) How much longer such bravura can go on is doubtful.
(19) Theresa May’s new partners at Westminster aren’t notable comics – “laugh and the world laughs with you” has never been their motto – so their have-cake-and-eat-it policy has to be admired for its sheer bravura.
(20) Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan "One would notice, if not swept along by the tale, that the allocation of time to characters, the certainty of the narration, the confidence to pause and then lunge on, to play with time, are all bravura accomplishments.
Piece
Definition:
(n.) A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces.
(n.) A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.
(n.) Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance
(n.) A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary.
(n.) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece.
(n.) A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings.
(n.) A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.
(n.) An individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt.
(n.) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.
(n.) A castle; a fortified building.
(v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out.
(v. t.) To unite; to join; to combine.
(v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.
Example Sentences:
(1) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(2) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
(3) That piece was placed on the slide and embedded with a mixture of agar and antiserum.
(4) Originally from Pyongyang, the tour guide explains that a “merited artist” from Mansudae, North Korea’s biggest art studio in Pyongyang, was responsible for the main piece, but that it took 63 artists almost two years to complete.
(5) Each daughter merozoite receives a branch or piece of the parent organelle.
(6) Heads you 'own it' Ian Read, the Scottish-born accountant who runs the biggest drug firm in the US carries in his pocket a special gold coin, about the size and weight of a £2 piece.
(7) A modification of a previously described curved ruler, the current model has a hinge for greater ease of maneuverability and a "T" piece on one end to facilitate measurement and marking of both poles of the muscle without repositioning the ruler.
(8) DNA sequence analysis of a 3.8-kb genomic piece allowed identification of (i) an open reading frame (ORF) with striking homology to the previously identified D. melanogaster ORF and (ii) conserved sequence elements of possible regulatory relevance within and flanking the second intron.
(9) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
(10) Dean Baquet, the managing editor in question, does admit in the piece that walking out was not perhaps the best thing for a senior editor like him to do.
(11) Criminal court charges leave me no choice but to resign as a magistrate Read more “This is a terrible piece of legislation introduced through the back door,” he wrote.
(12) The voltage trace is then analysed with a piece of transparent paper, on which lines corresponding to solutions of the diffusion equation convert the time axis of the voltage trace into a concentration axis.
(13) Sculthorpe’s catalogue consists of more than 350 pieces ranging from solos to orchestral works and opera.
(14) Piccoli followed that up with an opinion piece for Fairfax Media on Thursday in which said the SES model never applied to public schools and was not properly targeted to student needs.
(15) I still find that trying to weave together into a visual narrative and cutting together two pieces of a film – two different images.
(16) Each of the mice received 3 pieces of explants on the s.c. space in both of their flanks.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No shake: Donald Trump snubs Angela Merkel during photo op The piece of pantomime was in stark contrast to the visit of Theresa May in January.
(18) During each test period one group chewed a combination of one piece sorbitol and one piece sucrose flavored gum five times per day, the second group correspondingly chewed xylitol and sucrose flavored gum, while the third group served as a no hygiene control group.
(19) Pieces of spleen of both groups were fixed in formalin and embedded in paraffin.
(20) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.