brio
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Synonyms & Antonyms for brio
Synonyms
beans, bounce, dash, drive, dynamism, energy, esprit, gas, get-up-and-go, ginger, go, gusto, hardihood, juice, life, moxie, oomph, pep, punch, sap, snap, starch, verve, vigor, vim, vinegar, vitality, zing, zip
Antonyms
lethargy, listlessness, sluggishness, torpidity
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Though frequently chuckle-worthy, this party is tame stuff, however offensive, and not the film's most revealing vantage point on the fast-fashion huckster played with brio by Steve Coogan. — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Greed': Film Review | TIFF 2019," 8 Sep. 2019 With her characteristic storytelling brio, Oates limns in her first 125 pages a fraught family that mirrors a fraught community. — Wendy Smith, BostonGlobe.com, "Not perhaps the best by a master of the troubling and thoughtful but still pretty good," 13 June 2019 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, "Harold Prince, who won 21 Tony Awards for shows like ‘Phantom,’ ‘Evita,’ has died at 91," 30 July 2019 Unlike you—the sad, scattered survivors of a planet in tragic decline—we Martians are a young, thriving society, full of brio and optimism! — Bruce Sterling, Quartz, "Happy 50th anniversary of the Mars landing, Earthlings!," 22 July 2019 His sweet sound, rhythmic prowess and improvisational brio turn every performance into a revelatory journey. — Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, "A wave of great jazz singers is headed for the Bay Area," 17 July 2019 This created an opportunity for an outsider that Mr Perot, pint-size, scrappy and quivering with contempt for both parties (as well as hostility towards the president—a Yankee interloper to his beloved state), seized with hyperactive brio. — The Economist, "Remembering third-party presidential candidate Ross Perot," 11 July 2019 But something else happened on Tuesday, beyond border talk and lack of brio: Nancy Pelosi, clad in suffragist white, greeting the president from her seat behind him as Speaker of the House, became an instant meme. — Vogue, "Nancy Pelosi Makes Meme Gold at the State of the Union," 6 Feb. 2019 At its heart is the epistolary duel between former lovers the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, whose letter-writing commitment and brio go some way to excuse their moral depravity. — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, "Sex as a weapon in Nora’s all-male ‘Liaisons’," 5 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'brio.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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