(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.
Technical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(2) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
(3) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
(4) The present status of percutaneous coronary angioplasty is presented, with a brief outline of current technique, the technical and clinical indications for the method, and the results being obtained.
(5) Technical manipulations to improve resolution were time consuming and added little to the accuracy of the test.
(6) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
(7) The choice is partly technical – what kind of trading arrangement do we want with the EU?
(8) Several technical advantages of this method of fusion make this approach particularly useful in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(9) A certain amount of relaparotomies after small bowel surgery is caused by technical failures, such as the technique of suturing the anastomosis and the kind of re-establishing the continuity of the bowel.
(10) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(11) No impurities in the technical grade ether influenced the responses.
(12) Both microcomputer use and tracking patient care experience are technical skills similar to learning any medical procedure with which physicians are already familiar.
(13) Classic technics of digital image analysis and new algorithms were used to improve the contrast on the full image or a portion of it, contrast a skin lesion with statistical information deduced from another lesion, evaluate the shape of the lesion, the roughness of the surface, and the transition region from the lesion to the normal skin, and analyze a lesion from the chromatic point of view.
(14) Two hundred fifty-one cervical and 209 male urethral specimens from three Richmond health clinics were read by direct immunofluorescence staining and compared with cell culture technics using iodine staining.
(15) Furthermore, this system can be satisfactory handled by technical personnel after short periods of training.
(16) It is shown that the membrane potential level, ionic current and membrane conductance depend on the cell cycle stage both in Misgurnus fossilis L. embryos and in Xenopus laevis Daudin embryos by the microelectrode technics.
(17) In 36 patients plastic reconstruction of the urinary bladder, sphincter and urethra was performed with local tissues after the Young technic in the G. A. Bairov modification.
(18) RIM has always struggled to explain to the authorities that, unlike most other companies, it technically cannot access or read the majority of the messages sent by users over its network.
(19) However, little has been published regarding technical advances in optimal coverage of the peritoneal surface in whole abdominal radiation.
(20) To meet these prerequisites we have introduced some technical refinements: (1) computer-controlled rectilinear translations of the target in combination with different angular positions of the source and (2) computer-controlled rotations of the target around a vertical axis in combination with different angular positions of the source.