brio

• “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?”

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• ““Santa Monica cocktail parties” gets the job done, but his usual brio is lacking, much like a worn-out band performing a medley of hit songs from 40 years ago.”

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• “Paul Desenne, mixed Gallic suavity and Latin American brio for a chameleonic dash through various subdivisions of a nine-beat bar.”

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• “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”

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• “There's a certain chocolate factory in Fremont (we won't name names, but it rhymes with "brio") that gets all the press-it wholly deserves it, but that doesn't mean smaller-scale chocolatiers like Lee Johnson at Fiori Chocolates shouldn't get their moment in the sun.”

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• “But Willis's easygoing, dancing phrasing warmed up the chamber-sized dimensions of the playing, and once the intonation settled, in time for the bewitching Siciliano of the E-major concerto (BWV 1053), the group began to exude more confidence, and the closing Allegro had a happy brio.”

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• “The book is written with a cheerfully can-do brio and is full of fascinating calculations—he says that damming Canadian rivers and flooding 0.5% of its land surface, for instance, would provide hydro-power to meet all the world's electricity needs for a month.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Post-Carbon America

• “Like the set, a backyard of sorts, a vision of a low rent tag sale, in front of an airstream marked Waterloo, strobe lights hanging off trees, sirens, and like the central character portrayed with great brio by Mr. Rylance, Jez Butterworth's brilliant play is a divine mess.”

  The Huffington Post: Regina Weinreich: Jerusalem on Broadway: No Trip to the Holy Land

• “The consequence of such deviations is that there is little sense of the anger, brio and bravado of Marx and Engels; none of the humour, irony and creativity so central to the Marxian heritage.”

  The Guardian: Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton – review

• “All praise, then, to Chicago's TimeLine Theatre for resurrecting "The Front Page" and giving it a staging so full of brassy brio that you'll wonder why you ever settled for less.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Church on Catfish Row

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