(n.) The quality or state of being a virtuoso; in a bad sense, the character of one in whom mere artistic feeling or aesthetic cultivation takes the place of religious character; sentimentalism.
(n.) Virtuosos, collectively.
(n.) An art or study affected by virtuosos.
Example Sentences:
(1) To really be beloved in France he needs to learn to swear with the virtuosity of a Frenchman who's mislaid his linen Agnes B scarf in the Rue du Bac.
(2) Yet, through the final third of the 20th century, rheumy-eyed, scarred and bent-nosed ancients would shake their heads at his virtuosities, sigh, and insist that the big, bold champions of their far tougher olden days would have ambushed, cornered, speared and most damnably done for the swankpot in no time.
(3) Technical virtuosity reifies the mechanical model and widens the gap between what patients seek and doctors provide.
(4) It's a kind of multi-dimensional virtuosity that contemporary music has hardly seen before.
(5) On Thursday the fourth series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle will begin on BBC2, and the new shows feature all of Lee’s trademark virtuosity – and his equally familiar self-evisceration.
(6) It is postulated that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, with its displays of saccadic virtuosity, is the major reason for the nocturnal prevalence of such recurrent hyphemas.
(7) There are few feats of virtuosity better than his miming as he rehearses the song and as he performs a short introductory dance.
(8) One or two peevish voices thought Imlah too clever, too dustily "Oxonian", failing to see how mordantly modern many of the fables and instances in Birthmarks are, within their formal virtuosity and confidently literary bearing.
(9) But his underlying pleasantness was key to the huge success of his stand-up act, which – even when dealing with darker material such as addiction or divorce – relied more on verbal virtuosity than vitriol.
(10) The analysis presented also reveals that games that are dictated by strict rules, nevertheless offer a wide scope for creative enterprise since any game, just like, e.g., a piece of music, may be performed with great virtuosity without breaking any rules.
(11) Leaving aside the fact that there had been a 31% drop in the number of children in immigration detention in the last three months of the Labor government (excluding Nauru), if we drill down a bit we’ll discover the agenda behind the Coalition’s virtuosity.
(12) All the skill and technical virtuosity in the world will not be applied if we do not think of the disease.
(13) I was reacting to a particular dance ethos - which had always seemed to mean saying no to spectacle, to comedy or narrative, no to virtuosity.
(14) The orchestra's virtuosity of listening is miraculous: the way that each of the players knows instinctively what their role is in a gigantic Mahler symphony, when they have a solo, when they need to accompany another player, and how they need to blend in a chord.
(15) His virtuosity has lured star performers from other disciplines.
(16) It was only late in the noughties that El Sistema came to prominence in this country, thanks to the conducting virtuosity of Gustavo Dudamel and the brilliance of the Símon Bolívar Youth Orchestra, El Sistema's flagship band.
(17) But for sheer technical virtuosity the most astonishing exhibit is a 3rd-century sarcophagus, carved from a single block of stone, showing the Romans fighting the Ostrogoths.
(18) One of them was the technical virtuosity of its founder and early staff: unlike many other comparable ventures undergoing explosive growth, Facebook coped brilliantly.
(19) Some of these newer procedures reach the very limits of technical virtuosity and are extremely time consuming and will need careful appraisal before their true place in clinical gynecology is established.
(20) Austen was the first novelist with the technical virtuosity to take you into the thoughts of her characters while also letting you laugh at them.
Virtuoso
Definition:
(n.) One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.
(n.) A performer on some instrument, as the violin or the piano, who excels in the technical part of his art; a brilliant concert player.
Example Sentences:
(1) Or even that little-known film called Pulp Fiction, in which Christopher Walken gives a virtuoso performance as Captain Koons, with a deranged rant about hiding his watch from evil "yellow slopes".
(2) It is, said publisher Little, Brown, "a virtuoso performance whose soaring riffs on the inexhaustible marvel of human perception and rage against the dying of the light will stand among Iain Banks' greatest work".
(3) Britain’s consul in Johannesburg, RJ Miller, accused Vine of bumptiousness and a “virtuoso display of name-dropping, from the prime minister downwards”.
(4) His New York is a far scruffier place, with the grimy, old, Midnight Cowboy NYC rubbing against the gentrified Upper East Side, best expressed in an ordeal of a scene where Louie witnesses a virtuoso performance by a violinist while, behind the performer, an obese homeless man proceeds to disrobe and start washing himself with a bottle of filthy water.
(5) It was a virtuoso goal, notes from a Stradivarius when everyone else seemed to be stuck in an oompah band.
(6) Ravi Shankar was a virtuoso sitar player long before he became a cult for a drug-fuelled hippy generation that found the exquisite music he plucked from the strings a perfect accompaniment to the consumption of marijuana and LSD.
(7) Fonteyn was cast first for the ballerina role but it was Shearer, who followed her, whose speed of footwork came nearest to capturing Balanchine's virtuoso choreography.
(8) Eleanor Catton's life swerved off its expected course almost exactly 12 hours before our meeting, the morning after her novel The Luminaries – a virtuoso work set amid the 1860s New Zealand gold rush – was named the winner of the 2013 Man Booker prize .
(9) He is one of the virtuosos: he was disciplined, and lived and breathed what he did from a very early age.
(10) Ambitious, serious, and much superior to the average ministerial platform speech, it may have lacked the virtuoso egotism of Boris Johnson’s address soon afterwards in the same hall.
(11) Chet Atkins, who has died of cancer aged 77, was the first virtuoso guitarist in country music and a record producer largely responsible for devising the Nashville Sound, which put a new polish on country music in the 60s and 70s.
(12) George Osborne moves to peg public finances to Victorian values Read more They also have one or two other things in common: • Like Osborne, who has masterfully dramatised the state of the UK’s public finances for political purposes – including a suggestion in 2010 that the UK was one step away from a Greek-style crisis – Micawber is also a virtuoso at hamming up the perils of his situation and swiftly turning them to his advantage.
(13) Panahi, the virtuoso neo-realist who won a prize at Cannes for his debut, The White Balloon, in 1995, and, at 50, now has one of the most sagging mantlepieces in cinema, is currently stuck in Iran, awaiting the verdict of his appeal against a six-year prison term, and 20-year-ban on film-making, talking to the press and travelling abroad.
(14) Central to the novel (A Void in Gilbert Adair's virtuoso translation) is the idea of disappearance and, implicitly, the Holocaust.
(15) They were very different gigs – it was jazz to the fore on the One Nite Alone… tour in 2002, then all the arena hits in 2007, and finally, the electric 3rdeyegirl lineup in 2014ect – but these gigs, while utterly different, were all the same, ultimately: flowing, virtuoso performances by a man who seemed made of all music, able to switch with a smirk between high-kicking soul revue and blues metal, his sky-scraping Eig80s pop hits and funk deep cuts.
(16) These early twentysomething virtuosos are one of the most exciting live groups out there, flipping the jazz idiom on its head and effortlessly blazing through genres including soul, funk, dub, bass music and more.
(17) Because less than a third of hypnotic virtuosos responded literally, our results strongly refuted Erickson's assertion that literalism is a cognitive feature of hypnosis.
(18) The huge block of marble was a virtuoso piece of carving, its weight carried on just five points where the statues meet the base.
(19) In the decisive group meeting with Denmark, he pulled the strings like a virtuoso, arrowing in a fabulous free-kick and preparing the killer blow with a Cruyff turn and pass of feathered delicacy.
(20) He is skilled, witty, energetic and performs like a virtuoso," said Bellow at the time.