| Yet beneath Howard's rhetorical bravura, you sense a genuine fear of death. |
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| The traditional illusionism of the still-life genre is rejected in favor of bravura flatness and self-revelation of the paint stroke. |
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| We peer through it into another world, while we applaud its bravura performance in this one. |
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| Gahan's voice sounds very clean and warm as opposed to the bravura that occupies much of his vocals and performance. |
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| He shrank from the bravura and slashing impasto of his master Rembrandt, and imposed a glassy surface on his paintwork. |
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| The album's final song, then, is also its centerpiece, summarizing its narrative and musical arcs in one bravura performance. |
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| Lovely, to be sure, but if it wasn't accepted as being classic, it would upset those more obdurate imbibers with its bravura. |
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| He achieved recognition with the bravura Stag at Sharkey's, a vivid representation of an illegal prizefight. |
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| Dragicevic's combination of bleached-out chroma, lack of bravura and resurrected idioms makes for commendably uningratiating paintings. |
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| This young Chinese clarinettist's recital of potted fantasias on operas by Verdi, Bellini and Ponchielli is bravura fluff. |
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| The film's wildly uneven, but there's no disputing Argento's bravura or flair for stunt casting. |
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| Tom turns in another bravura performance in this movie, even if his role for the most part calls for more endurance than acting. |
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| It's action sequences, basically 2 hrs of its 2 hr. 45 min running time, are bravura for sure. |
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| Though despair at his material sometimes makes him bellow, he gives a bravura performance that transmutes pointlessness into poignancy. |
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| Its dazzling chiaroscuro and painterly bravura surpass his earlier performances. |
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| In any event, it was a bravura performance, a long extempore speech, apparently pulled out of thin air. |
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| Caravaggio returns to the half-length format of his early genre scenes, but all naturalistic bravura and illusionistic detail are gone. |
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| He had won the British Grand Prix 48 hours previously with a series of bravura performances, outrageous even. |
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| Maybe, but I find the bravura in the C major one for sopranino recorder even more remarkable. |
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| As far as a show of bombastic masculine bravura was concerned, this was a total flop. |
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| In drawing, Cocteau's characteristic line, often curlicued but rarely having to rethink, has a bravura which become a visual signature. |
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| Despite his bravura, Che's father, like many dabblers, never found real success, and the Guevaras weren't wealthy, whatever their pedigree. |
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| Ellinor is established in a bravura passage in which Glenthorn, the tale's official narrator, inexactly recollects the tales Ellinor told him of Irish history and myth. |
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| When reading, hearing or viewing art, we are drawn to bravura performances, I think, by an essentially primitive approval of self-possession wherever it may be found. |
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| Their bravura performances never came about from actually working off each other, they simply found the heart and soul of their characters from the material. |
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| The program ended with a free-spirited coda by all the dancers doing this, that, and especially the other, all with happy bravura and to Tchaikovsky. |
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| On the drama side, James Spader breaks into the Best Actor category for his bravura scenery chewing on The blacklist. |
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| It's certainly ambitious and unusual, a traditional story told in a bravura, experimental style, which at times is hilarious but at others teeters on the edge of tedium. |
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| When I first saw the show, I was most excited about the bravura Red Highrise, but on returning, I grew more intrigued with other, more flatly painted works. |
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| The artist used bravura painterly techniques to depict comic-book-style characters, many of whom had buck-toothed, doggish muzzles and half-rounded, Mickey-like eyes. |
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| The arias contained in the work are dominantly of two types, the aria di bravura, with rich coloratura elements, and the aria parlante, in declamatory vocal style. |
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| The winner was duly announced on stage after Self had completed his bravura turn under the festival canvas. |
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| Spanish Hounds are affectionate and calm animals that display uncommon bravura and valiance on the trail of large game. |
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| Moran does so with fearless honesty and bravura, but admits she was wary about oversharing when she wrote How to Be a Woman. |
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| He gives a bravura physical performance of the act of dying that can only have been born of extensive firsthand experience. |
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| She steers a fine line between braveness and bravura with nothing of the incantatory in her speech. |
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| This is a bravura performance that elevates Morahan to the front rank of British actors. |
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| I still find his imaginative concepts, bravura technique and rich use of chiaroscuro to be very exciting and inspirational. |
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| Paul Clement, representing the states, is a brilliant oralist, and he gave a bravura presentation of the states' argument. |
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| This is taken up by the piano and developed at some length, eventually giving way to a bravura passage in triplets. |
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| But it's a rattling good film that whips you along at a good pace, has some interesting side plots that come back in interesting ways and some bravura camerawork. |
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| Even the films a little off the mainstream hype-track have an upbeat bravura, or unexpected hero-on-a-journey. |
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| But his uninhibitedness also takes the form of sheer stylistic bravura, the dazzling facility, note-spinning mastery and heedless creative enthusiasm of the Russian. |
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| Part of the delight of watching her pivot gracefully from steely composure to histrionic distress comes from the feeling of witnessing two bravura performances at once. |
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| It's another bravura performance by the master of the police procedural. |
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| I didn't have a clue about what Jim was saying, and I'm not sure Mr. Coe did either, but at the end of his bravura performance I got my grade changed. |
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| I feel a little churlish raising this because they were certainly an enjoyable pair to watch and undoubtedly gave everything to achieve really bravura performances. |
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| Barber's boundless melodic inspiration takes inspired flight from the surging opening movement through the moving, poignant Andante and rousing bravura finale. |
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| Indeed, his work has actually been criticised for placing too great an emphasis on bravura technical skills at the expense of these other properties. |
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| Before this point's reached, however, we see Medea's conflicting impulses in a performance of bravura strength and delicacy, yet darkly lit with moments of mordant humour. |
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| She accomplishes the ornamentation with ease, and she proves magnificently that vocal bravura can work hand in glove with variety of color and expression. |
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| Irureta levelled the tie in the first half with a superb header, with Ayala's goal five minutes from time capping a bravura display from the home side and sending the 50,000 fans into raptures. |
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| Russian bravura not only set the tone for the musical part of the evening. |
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| And South African performer, storyteller and writer Thembi Mtshali rounds out the season with her one-woman bravura performance in A Woman in Waiting, a smash-hit at the 2004 Du Maurier World Stage Festival in Toronto. |
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| A cast of thousands, fascinating politics, bravura staging. |
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| The gigue concluded a bravura performance of flawless intonation and articulation. |
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| It was said that after the war his powers diminished as his bravura technique became sketchier. |
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| It doesn't involve bravura skill or derring-do. |
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| It means that David Cameron, whatever he says, whatever his bravura rhetoric might imply, is going to be in hock to Nigel Farage and the right wing of the Conservative party. |
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| But for all the chancellor's gung-ho bravura, he was galloping backwards in full retreat from his autumn statement blunder revealing he would take the state back to the 1930s – austerity beyond anything ever tried. |
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| Nonetheless, his films were not distinguished by bravura camera work. |
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| Eicher's early albums were an interesting mix of rock bravura and softer, slower ballad numbers, and Taxi Europa appears to mark a return to that full-throttle down to low-gear mix. |
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| In an age addicted to the showy glitter and bravura displays of pianists like Liszt and Thalberg, it is not surprising that Schumann's concerto did not capture the public fancy. |
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| At the other end of the spectrum, Klonos by Piet Swerts, a work imposed at the Tromp International Music Competition, claims to be a breathtaking bravura piece. |
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| Player guile, wiliness and bravura are key elements in this event. |
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| Founding the country's first campaigning newspaper at the end of the 1970s, well before the beginnings of multi-parties and the springtime of the African press, was an act of bravura. |
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| Again and again it is the trophy-like quality of craftsmanship that shows such amazing bravura pieces, including the matching candlesnuffer and Mass bell. |
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| Rabbit did a dazzlingly quick bravura sequence, like scat singing. |
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| Novacek is apparently not concerned with traditional bravura, and in his interpretation the romantic hothead is seen through the prism of his later, classicising work. |
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