BRAVURA Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

bravura

adjective

Definition of bravura next

as in virtuoso

accomplished with trained ability a truly bravura performance of the ballet that brought the crowd to its feet

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Recent Examples of bravura In a bravura performance, Llúcia Garcia stars as 18-year-old Marina, who travels to the glittering seaside town of Vigo determined to uncover information on her father. —

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 23 Apr. 2026 Serpell is also a sometime film critic for the Review, contributing considerations of Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You, Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, and a bravura essay about Émile Zola and the movie Zola. —

Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026 The most eye-catching part of his work is his bravura treatment of light and shadow, an aspect of the style known as preciosismo in Spanish, in which he was much influenced by Fortuny. —

Benjamin Lima special Contributor, Dallas Morning News, 18 Mar. 2026 Ford put in a bravura performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! —

Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026 The many years spent pondering and preparing for a potential attack on Iran are the reason that the first days of the war were, for the most part, a bravura display of American power. —

Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026 But over-familiarity is, for the most part, swept away by a production of stunning, seductive imagination and bravura execution. —

Demetrios Matheou, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026 The bravura production and costume design are respectively by Suzie Davies and Jacqueline Durran, both correctly tipping the outrageous into the tacky. —

Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026 Featuring a bravura performance by Hawke, Blue Moon, Linklater’s ninth collaboration with the actor, presents an evening in the company of 5ft songwriter Lorenz Hart, seven months before his ultimately death aged just 48. —

Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bravura

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A lot of the movie feels like a virtuoso chase sequence, people barreling down the road, guns blazing.

— Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026
The teacher was Orlandi himself, both an authority on the history of the instrument and a virtuoso performer.

— Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026