Crossword Dictionary
bravura
bravura - n
brilliant and showy technical skill; "in a final bravura the ballerina appeared to be floating in water"; "the music ends with a display of bravura"
synonyms
adroit, artful, deft, delicate, dexterous, dextrous, expert, masterful, masterly, practiced, practised, skillful, virtuoso, workmanlike
in a sentence
a truly bravura performance of the ballet that brought the crowd to its feet
The final 45 minutes or so of this fourth installment is a bravura attempt to top everything that came before, and it's got sequences that feel bound for the pantheon.
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etymology
1788, "a spirited, florid piece of music requiring great skill in the performer," from Italian bravura "bravery, spirit" (see brave (adj.)). The sense of "display of brilliancy, dash" is from 1813.