bravura

Even the films a little off the mainstream hype-track have an upbeat bravura, or unexpected hero-on-a-journey.

On the drama side, James Spader breaks into the Best Actor category for his bravura scenery chewing on The Blacklist.

He gives a bravura physical performance of the act of dying that can only have been born of extensive firsthand experience.

It was a perfectly played symphony of silhouette, color, and texture—a bravura performance, an aesthetic rarity.

Frulein Fichtner is more in the bravura than in the sentimental line, and she has a certain breadth, grasp, and freshness.

He sang bravura airs with a facility of vocalisation any prima donna might have envied.

After the overture Signora Palazzesi sang "with a bell-like, magnificent voice, and great bravura."

The brilliant bravura in which you gave the last line, immensely exciting as it was, is not correct.

I had taken refuge from the terrible bravura singing of the Major's strident prima donna in the back drawing-room.