How to Use bravura in a Sentence

bravura

adjective
  • 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
  • His bravura side is still firmly in place, yet it is buoyed now by a growing sophistication.
    — Thea Traff, New York Times, 3 May 2025
  • Its most bravura trick is rooted less in a display of mastery than one of vulnerability.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 28 June 2023
  • No matter how bravura the substance of his disquisitions, this act, predictably, grew tiresome.
    — Justin Driver, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • But his other forceful, powerful side, put at the service of bravura songs, is perhaps more impressive.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Ford put in a bravura performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
  • 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.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 22 June 2026
  • Sanders, on the other hand — in the most outrageously, satisfyingly bravura role of his career — doubles down on the stereotype.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • In this balance lies the bravura, idiosyncratic source of Murakami’s popularity.
    — Randy Boyagoda, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The bravura centerpiece is the two friends’ destructive brawl in a Hamptons manse, which explodes everything in sight, from an enormous aquarium to the second story window.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2025
  • But over-familiarity is, for the most part, swept away by a production of stunning, seductive imagination and bravura execution.
    — Demetrios Matheou, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
  • With all due respect to the bravura world-creation of Wakanda, what is likely Carter’s single most effective achievement is so simple and casual as to seem to have come straight from a uniform-supply warehouse.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
  • Yvan, who has recently landed in the stationery business, arrives onstage while delivering a bravura monologue about wedding-invitation drama, by far the funniest moment in this production.
    — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Water also laps at the edges of the two standout tales, both bravura examples of Langan’s professorial, experimental inclinations.
    — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The bravura production and costume design are respectively by Suzie Davies and Jacqueline Durran, both correctly tipping the outrageous into the tacky.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • One day after Toronto displayed why its offense led all postseason teams in most hitting metrics in an 11-4 win, the Blue Jays were silenced by Yamamoto’s bravura pitching.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 26 Oct. 2025
  • But the bravura camera movements and visual excess would be meaningless, Billeter said, if it’s not modulated with more straightforward camerawork that gets at character interiority.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • In a bravura performance, Llúcia Garcia stars as 18-year-old Marina, who travels to the glittering seaside town of Vigo determined to uncover information on her father.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 23 Apr. 2026
  • His movies are deeply political, but also poetic and personal, eschewing traditional storytelling for an expressionistic approach marked by bravura stylistics, inner turmoil and the occasional musical number.
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2025
  • The ransom-exchange sequence that comes in the middle of the film, set on a train car crowded with Yankees fans while a Puerto Rican music festival takes place underneath the subway, is the kind of bravura New York City electricity only Lee knows how to capture.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Featuring a bravura performance by Hawke, Blue Moon, Linklater’s ninth collaboration with the actor, presents an evening in the company of 5ft songwriter Lorenz Hart, seven months before his ultimately death aged just 48.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Tracy’s dialogue, though absent the staccato non sequiturs of the director’s earlier work, has a bracing nastiness; every visual flourish and every menacing thrum of the score, by Jerskin Fendrix, escalates the intensity of Stone and Plemons’s bravura showdown.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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