What do you make of a guy who claims the Italian word 'brio' is no longer used in Italy but only in the English language?. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
Paul Desenne, mixed Gallic suavity and Latin American brio for a chameleonic dash through various subdivisions of a nine-beat bar. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
It's especially heartening to see 94-year-old Eli Wallach bring the same kind of brio to a small part here as he brought to. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News]
She had brio and energy, and a talent for grotesque. From Wordnik.com. [Angiola Sartorio.] Reference
Lady Lacklander snorted but not with her usual brio. From Wordnik.com. [Scales of Justice]
On 08/08/08, a nation articulated its spirit with brio. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Doctoroff: At the Opening Ceremony: Did China Rediscover Its Soul?] Reference
I was charmed by the confidence and brio of these speeches. From Wordnik.com. [David Haven Blake: McCain And My Captive Cadets] Reference
(Soundbite of laughter) And is that different than con brio?. From Wordnik.com. [Italian: The Language That Sings] Reference
Her brio was partly why I thought Labour would keep the seat. From Wordnik.com. [Are the SNP about to win despite their candidate?] Reference
That boosterism and brio can turn Graham foes into supporters. From Wordnik.com. [D.C. Council incumbent Jim Graham deflects opponents' brickbats by citing record] Reference
Tiler Peck, as always, stands out for her musicality and brio. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome Change Comes to City Ballet's Theater] Reference
In the case of Mrs. Blair's book, they have also been penned with brio. From Wordnik.com. [Tony's Circle Tells All -- Yuck!] Reference
They're played, con gusto and brio, by Michael Richards and Maury Chaykin. From Wordnik.com. [Latifah Is Rich,] Reference
Time and again, Allied momentum stalled, commanders 'public brio notwithstanding. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Slog] Reference
I'll do without that! abrogate: toss it out, fast! brio: oh the joy in that word. From Wordnik.com. [i agreed to WHAT] Reference
I wish he would show the same sort of brio Hillary does once a knife fight begins. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Winning Spin War Over Who's Victim In Campaign] Reference
They are popular because of their personalities, teeming with brio and cocksureness. From Wordnik.com. [Lionel: Olbermann Versus O'Reilly: It's a Shoot] Reference
With characteristic brio, she had thrown herself into campaigning for scheduled elections. From Wordnik.com. [Mr Cameron doesn't understand Pakistan. Sadly, he is not alone] Reference
And actually, he employed the stock images with real brio and knowledge and even foresight. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
But if Footsteps is an homage to modern jazz's heroic past, it doesn't lack for Oedipal brio. From Wordnik.com. [Just Remember These: Most Desirable Discs of 2002] Reference
A new clue would soon be given and at once Oscar was off again with renewed brio to finer effects. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
We invaded and toppled the Taliban with dispatch, courage and even, for all our woundedness, brio. From Wordnik.com. [McChrystal Forces Us to Focus] Reference
Earhart handled the more than occasional dig at her gender with unflappable grace and infectious brio. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Glickman: "Amelia" Earhart: A Different Kind of "Chick Flick"] Reference
O, he was in a high good humour that day, rubbishing London and the English with much of his old brio. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
Written with brio and staged rousingly by director Taylor Hackford, this confrontation is good, kitschy fun. From Wordnik.com. [New York's A Helluva Town] Reference
With his usual brio, the titanic tenor gushed, "It's an incredible city with a lot of present and a lot of future.". From Wordnik.com. [All That Glitters...] Reference
He wantsto criticize the overemphasis on athletic performance, but films the track scenes with glamorous, Nike-ad brio. From Wordnik.com. [Boyz N The Quad] Reference
What he most dreaded had already happened, and he could proceed -- in his life and in his art -- with enviable guts and brio. From Wordnik.com. [James Warren: This Week in Magazines: The "Capitalist Tool" Says Angelina Tops Oprah] Reference
These aging political lions hope to tap into the youth and brio of the netroots community to select a strong presidential ticket. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Katovsky: It's Enough to Make You Ralph] Reference
When the movie opened, I described her character, Gloria, as a giggly, rapacious sexpot, played by Ms. Fisher with startling brio. From Wordnik.com. ['Gomorrah': A Sinfully Fine Crime Epic] Reference
He lay tossing restlessly on a dirty old straw palliasse, and was in great pain; but greeted his friend with a dash of the old brio. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
I made my entrance, and, inspired by the zest and brio of Edith Evans, I acted as well as I knew how, in complete and utter silence. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
"I would very much have liked to act with more brio and take a more definite line ... in many respects my courage failed me," he said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Not with schoolmarmish cautions, fascistic reprimands or anxious bean-counting, but expansively, with the brio of Lindbergh and Earhart. From Wordnik.com. [Air Peter] Reference
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