Examples of bravura

• The substantial first-movement development is largely in the minor, with solo bravura passages over pizzicato accompaniment featuring in both outer movements.

• This is the urbanism of the bravura display of architectural skill where some recalcitrant piece of the city is cut up just for that purpose.

• Her voice was supremely flexible, anchored in a middle range, but also able to reach the highest notes of the soprano register and to handle bravura passages with ease.

• The work could best be described as a bravura chamber concerto for 24 soloists; or as a vast skittering free-form gloss on the idea of the 'hunting' scherzo.

• The chief reason for this is the undisguised use of the international interludes for bravura displays of technical knowledge, whether of international law, of conspiracy theories, or diplomatic protocol.

• I had not heard that theory advanced with such bravura before.

• He must be congratulated on the bravura and flourish with which he made his speech.

• It was a bravura performance of the sort which she has made her own.