Word: brio
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...Alison Richard is perceived as very energetic and can-do, accessible and supportive, and heading up our 800th Anniversary campaign with a lot of brio,” says Cambridge professor Mary Jacobus, who directs the school’s Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities...
Cabot Professor of American Literature Lawrence Buell said he was drawn to the symposium by the “intellectual brio of the speakers rather than any sense of civic duty...
...boyish antics may have suggested something else to Paramount. Cruise is 44 now, a star (since Risky Business in 1983) for more than half his life; yet he still relies on the megawatt smile and man-child brio. He should be finding a way to segue to a maturity that is just as appealing, yet less... strange. In other words, Paramount to Tom: Grow...
...what happened to Brit humor after Monty Python. TV eminences Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon star in this postmodernist jape, which keeps interrupting the novel's tale to focus on the offscreen agitations of the cast. Since the Coogan-Brydon banter gave the film much of its brio, their very funny commentary on the DVD amounts to a second deconstruction of the entertaining shambles that is Shandy...
...Spillane) given his right arm to save Mike, dead on his apartment floor with a grapefruit-size hole in his gut. Hammer swears revenge. But first, for purposes of evidence or exercise or fun, he beats up a plethora of punks, the bouts described with a grisly precision and brio that still startle. ("I swung on him with all of my hundred and ninety pounds. My fist went up to the wrist in his stomach. He flopped to the floor vomiting his lungs out, his face gradually turning purple.") On the last page, he corrals the villain, a gorgeous blond...