Word: bravura
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...voice, by courtesy of Booby Driscoll, is that of any boy who duels with pirates and rescues Indian Princesses: it reeks with pleasant bravura. Disney's animators make Peter a consummate actor, posturing and posing with verve unequalled since the elder Fairbanks...
...year-old Ralph Ellison a claim to being the best of U.S. Negro writers.*It makes him, for that matter, an unusual writer by any standard. His story of one Negro's effort to find his place in the world becomes at times a picaresque nightmare, full of bravura scenes in the South and in Harlem that are as original as they are imaginative. Not even patches of overwriting and murky thinking can dull the final powerful effect. For Invisible Man is no simple catalogue of hard-luck adventures in a world where might is white. Before...
Playwrights Coxe & Chapman have understood Melville's story. They have not sentimentalized it. They have kept Billy from seeming a mere goody-goody. They have banished all bravura from the trial scene. They have contrived a very quiet scene where the Captain tells Billy of his fate. Moreover, they are well served by Norris Houghton's direction, Paul Morrison's fine stage sets, the acting of Dennis King, Torin Thatcher, Charles Nolte as the Captain, Claggart, Billy...
...habitue of the Metropolitan Opera House and purlieu is bound to get a good many chuckles from Mare Simont's book, "Opera Souffle." The volume consists entirely of 60 pictures "in bravura," which is merely the opera lover's way of saying that they are all impertinently witty comments about opera and opera-lovers...
When handsome young Czech Pianist Rudolf Firkusny took his first crack at the U.S. concert stage in 1938, he thought "big bravura playing" was the way to hammer U.S. critics into submission. But about the highest praise the New York Times could manage was that he "successfully held the attention of the audience." Firkusny, then 25-"much too young," he says now-tried a short U.S. tour without much more luck, then headed for home a little sadder and a great deal wiser...