From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbravurabra‧vu‧ra /brəˈvjʊərə $ -ˈvjʊrə/ noun [uncountable] GOOD ATgreat skill shown in the way you perform, write, paint etc, especially when you do something very difficult a bravura performance
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bravura• Not even a bravura turn by one of the most charismatic actors of his generation can relieve the torpor.• It was simply a bravura display of useless knowledge.• An austere bravura exhibition for six dancers, it offers a series of solos of ever-increasing technical demands.• Ware traces their furtive encounters with uncommon detail and considerable bravura.• A bit more bravura and the butcher would have had him.• This is primarily a Delightful Precipice album, with much bravura contrapuntal writing and Django's vision more focused than ever.• To the very end, the ice bridge of 1899 became a target for acts of bravura.Origin bravura (1700-1800) Italian bravo; → BRAVE1