How to Use brio in a Sentence

brio

noun
  • There was a comic brio in his best books, alongside an ever-present melancholy.
    — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • If her epiphany is not entirely persuasive, her brio brings us along for the rest of the ride.
    — Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2022
  • But few writers could assemble dry facts and telling details with more gusto and brio.
    — Jonathan Kandell, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The real treasures, though, are the game’s narrative vignettes, which unspool with force and brio.
    — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
  • They are delivered with a confident brio, though the author is careful to enter caveats.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The book is a neat piece of narrative history, told with exceptional brio.
    — Peter Lewis, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2017
  • Ironically, the film is conspicuous not for its brio but its blandness.
    — Michael O’Sullivan, kansascity, 28 June 2018
  • None too funny, but animated with winning brio by Ramírez Ramos.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 9 June 2023
  • And right now that means stuffing the nightly carnival brio of Barbaro into bags and boxes.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • He had been known for similar brio during his long tenure with Fox News Channel.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Something in their door-to-door deportment, their earnestness and brio, seemed a soft rebuke to my own disenchantment.
    — Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
  • The album, which was recorded in the midst of a tour, captures the band playing with serious heat and interactive brio.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Less baggage, more brio is Findikoglu’s message—and the spirit of post-lockdown life in general.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 27 July 2021
  • Breeding season is over, the pups are out of the den and the dogs are roaming across their 116-square-mile home range with predatory brio.
    — New York Times, 20 June 2022
  • One of those big events this season is a battle whose sheer scope, even before being cut together with the show’s typical brio, dazzled me.
    — TIME.com, 30 June 2017
  • At ten or eleven or twelve, itchy for adulthood before the long slog of puberty has begun, kids can perform maturity by swearing with brio.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Yorker, 19 May 2020
  • The show-must-go-on brio of Michael Kors’s presentation at Tavern on the Green?
    — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Its case for itself is the promise of a glimpse of the Bernthal torso — impressive enough, but a sad thing when stripped of the actor’s usual edgy brio.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The stellar assortment of narrators chosen to read these tales (many of which are told in the first person) clearly seized on their roles with a brio equal to that of the man who wrote them.
    — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Their brio provokes our enjoyment, and while all sorts of subtle and humanizing details may come from that delight in sheer invention, the work is big.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The frills at the front of Maria Robbins’s black walking dress become like a flowering vine painted with the brio of a Manet still life.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Everything is staged with confidence and brio, agreed Charlotte Jones on What's on Stage, and the cast is top-notch.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 14 Mar. 2024
  • His Broadway career lasted for seven decades; he was known throughout for his chutzpah, smarts, brio, creative range and his willingness to take risks.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2019
  • Van Halen recorded its debut album for the label in just three weeks, employing few overdubs, the better to capture its in-concert brio.
    — Jim Farber, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Bong, his camera at once ecstatic and controlled, brings the pieces together with the brio of a conductor attacking a great symphony.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Great Marino perfectly knows the house of Chanel, expressing Chanel’s creation evolving over the years with brio.
    — Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • The old Insight married its advanced technology with some on-road brio, in part probably because that car only had room for two, and two seaters are meant to be sporty.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 1 June 2020
  • However, the spirit of the film, directed with brio by Taika Waititi lies in Sakaar.
    — Josh Spiegel, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Former cast member Jason Sudeikis for many years offered a version of Biden whose brio often overtook an ability to stay on message.
    — NBC News, 19 Dec. 2020
  • McBride unfolds the efforts to rescue Dodo, plus side plots involving crackpot business schemes and sleazy bigwigs, with his trademark skill, brio, and frank talk.
    — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023

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