How to Use brio in a Sentence

brio

noun
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  • This was not the first time Biden has used some brio and bravado to talk about Trump.
    — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2018
  • By now, his movie has long since succumbed to its own brio.
    — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • BRIO’s recipe calls for dressing the croutons first to soften.
    — Claire Perez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 7 July 2017
  • If her epiphany is not entirely persuasive, her brio brings us along for the rest of the ride.
    — Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2022
  • Breeding season is over, the pups are out of the den and the dogs are roaming across their 116-square-mile home range with predatory brio.
    — New York Times, 20 June 2022
  • The show-must-go-on brio of Michael Kors’s presentation at Tavern on the Green?
    — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Ever since the global war on terror launched in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, the insistence for their brand of brio, brains, and brawn has grown year by year.
    — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The frills at the front of Maria Robbins’s black walking dress become like a flowering vine painted with the brio of a Manet still life.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Beecham is both cruel and amusing as The Bolter, and she and Scott, both playing nonconformists with great brio, walk away with all of their scenes.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021
  • There was a comic brio in his best books, alongside an ever-present melancholy.
    — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The real treasures, though, are the game’s narrative vignettes, which unspool with force and brio.
    — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Its case for itself is the promise of a glimpse of the Bernthal torso — impressive enough, but a sad thing when stripped of the actor’s usual edgy brio.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The album, which was recorded in the midst of a tour, captures the band playing with serious heat and interactive brio.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 23 Feb. 2018
  • He had been known for similar brio during his long tenure with Fox News Channel.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Great Marino perfectly knows the house of Chanel, expressing Chanel’s creation evolving over the years with brio.
    — Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • And right now that means stuffing the nightly carnival brio of Barbaro into bags and boxes.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The stellar assortment of narrators chosen to read these tales (many of which are told in the first person) clearly seized on their roles with a brio equal to that of the man who wrote them.
    — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Less baggage, more brio is Findikoglu’s message—and the spirit of post-lockdown life in general.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 27 July 2021
  • A show with less pure brio would have shown us Nora’s trip to the parallel universe, rather than trusting its actor to sell the journey, and the harder journey back.
    — Daniel D’addario, Time, 4 June 2017
  • However, the spirit of the film, directed with brio by Taika Waititi lies in Sakaar.
    — Josh Spiegel, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Something in their door-to-door deportment, their earnestness and brio, seemed a soft rebuke to my own disenchantment.
    — Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
  • The book is a neat piece of narrative history, told with exceptional brio.
    — Peter Lewis, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2017
  • But that postmodern brio told barely half of Mr. Mandanipour’s tale.
    — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • One of those big events this season is a battle whose sheer scope, even before being cut together with the show’s typical brio, dazzled me.
    — TIME.com, 30 June 2017
  • None too funny, but animated with winning brio by Ramírez Ramos.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 9 June 2023
  • Van Halen recorded its debut album for the label in just three weeks, employing few overdubs, the better to capture its in-concert brio.
    — Jim Farber, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020
  • And Italian chefs in the 19th century working in the grandest and most affluent homes in Europe also embraced chocolate with brio.
    — Sue Quinn, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The old Insight married its advanced technology with some on-road brio, in part probably because that car only had room for two, and two seaters are meant to be sporty.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 1 June 2020
  • Sullivan’s butler tells him that this is a terrible idea—the poor don’t want to see films about their troubles, and the rich will buy tickets only out of guilt—but Sullivan pursues the project with brio.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • His Broadway career lasted for seven decades; he was known throughout for his chutzpah, smarts, brio, creative range and his willingness to take risks.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2019

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