| And this has a sagging effect on the story, which launches itself with such brio and yet is strangely underpowered. |
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| Brinkley's legacy can be witnessed every time a TV commentator describes a Washington scene with brio and wit. |
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| Burstein captured every subtle variation of the melodic line with scintillating brio and vivacity. |
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| While serious in subject and sad in fact, the play is written with brio and excellent humour. |
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| It whizzes up steep hills with brio and remains stable as it passes coaches and juggernauts. |
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| Not for nothing do they call Munich the most northerly Italian town, all brio, baroque and bragadoccio. |
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| Here, an introductory Andante maestoso in C minor and three-four time leads into a fluent Allegro con brio in two-four time. |
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| The first movement is described as allegro con brio and I would have preferred more con brio. |
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| His presiding inspirations are Vuillard and Bonnard, masters of the domestic interior, to which he adds a dash of Abstract Expressionist brio. |
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| It does convey with brio American theatrical life in the middle two quarters of the nineteenth century. |
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| It begins with a short, tentative introduction of Bohemian wistfulness before launching on a vigorous sonata-form Allegro con brio. |
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| This balletic score received a performance filled with rhythmic verve and brio. |
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| Her assignment, which she carries off with breathtaking brio, is to provide explicit political content and laughter. |
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| If the directors are vaunted for intelligence and brio, why is this film so vacuous, stupid and lazy? |
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| Now nearly 80, the ex-Harvard Prof is still full of brio and a force to be reckoned with. |
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| The intoxicating brio of the coda capped a performance that approached that rarified aura of perfection! |
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| The voice of the translator must be prose, not verse, if the original composition is to be sung with spirit and brio. |
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| The sheer brio of these pieces makes them both unsettling and hypnotic. |
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| Panama City lacks the glamour of Buenos Aires, the exoticness of La Paz and the rediscovered brio of Bogota. |
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| If the government showed as much brio encouraging computer literacy as the Dudley Grid for Learning, we would be a nation of tech-savvy early adopters by now. |
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| It did, not least because it was conducted with terrific wit and brio by a woman called Sarah Pedro, proudly dressed as a parlourmaid. |
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| Eoin Morgan was already on the wane in 2012 but still had that air of unclouded, short-form brio. |
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| His unusual career path, contagious enthusiasm, joyful creativity and inexhaustible brio? |
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| The poem's breathless momentum and brio defy ironical posturing. |
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| There was more brio than substance, and not a memorable tune in sight. |
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| This piece requires non-stop brio and a kind of splashy physical heroics. |
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| A sparky, finely nuanced final presto led to an exciting allegro con brio whose exuberance neatly summed up the evening. |
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| It takes to the road with brio, cheekily gunning up behind much bigger cars and perkily taking those corners at speed. |
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| Solidly backed by her faithful accompanist, Jordan Officer, on guitar, and Bill Gossage on bass, Susie Arioli hits the stage with all the brio that has made her name. |
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| Despite this, his trio of actresses comes through with brio. |
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| Back lists will thus be played con brio and with profit. |
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| He has the same cheetah-like movements as he paces the stage, the same protesting brio when he harangues the crowd, and even the same producer, Martin Meissonnier. |
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| Only then do we understand his gender-crunching brio — the rutting, ballsy yowl of the voice paired with that oddly feminine hip twist and shimmer of the shoes. |
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| The speaker showed, with his usual brio, the superiority of the service on the notification while insisting on the legal safety which the physical handing-over of a document by a legal officer conferred. |
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| That's a pity since the blazing allegro con brio of Beethoven's Eroica from these young players deserved an audible acclamation. |
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| For example the opening movement, Allegro con brio, did indeed have its full quotient of brio. |
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| All that is excellent in Audiard is present in the film: his flair, his style, his brio, the sheer panache with which he swoops in on detail and leaps back for the bigger picture. |
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| From its white colonnades to its elaborately pleated and ruched swags of ivory canvas overhead, Brio looks great. |
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| Brio is what Peruvians call the willing, controllable spiritedness that typifies the breed. |
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| The familiar English Dances ranged from a slightly pedestrian opening, through a rumbustious Con Brio and a swaggeringly good conclusion. |
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| Howard Mattocks in the Fife Siglen, Brian Mather in the Squib Con Brio and Gareth Wright in the Hilbre Hie built up big leads and generally the boats were well spread out. |
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| Brian Mather in the Squib Con Brio led almost all the way only to be pipped in the final few yards by Peter Read in Blue Peter who claimed the Pauline Morewood Challenge Cup. |
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