Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Vigor; vivacity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Spirit, animation; especially, in music, in the expression con brio, spiritedly.
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- noun
Vigour orvivacity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What do you make of a guy who claims the Italian word 'brio' is no longer used in Italy but only in the English language?
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“Santa Monica cocktail parties” gets the job done, but his usual brio is lacking, much like a worn-out band performing a medley of hit songs from 40 years ago.
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Paul Desenne, mixed Gallic suavity and Latin American brio for a chameleonic dash through various subdivisions of a nine-beat bar.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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It's especially heartening to see 94-year-old Eli Wallach bring the same kind of brio to a small part here as he brought to
NPR Topics: News 2010
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It's especially heartening to see 94-year-old Eli Wallach bring the same kind of brio to a small part here as he brought to
NPR Topics: News 2010
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There's a certain chocolate factory in Fremont (we won't name names, but it rhymes with "brio") that gets all the press-it wholly deserves it, but that doesn't mean smaller-scale chocolatiers like Lee Johnson at Fiori Chocolates shouldn't get their moment in the sun.
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There's a certain chocolate factory in Fremont (we won't name names, but it rhymes with "brio") that gets all the press-it wholly deserves it, but that doesn't mean smaller-scale chocolatiers like Lee Johnson at Fiori Chocolates shouldn't get their moment in the sun.
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There's a certain chocolate factory in Fremont (we won't name names, but it rhymes with "brio") that gets all the press-it wholly deserves it, but that doesn't mean smaller-scale chocolatiers like Lee Johnson at Fiori Chocolates shouldn't get their moment in the sun.
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There's a certain chocolate factory in Fremont (we won't name names, but it rhymes with "brio") that gets all the press-it wholly deserves it, but that doesn't mean smaller-scale chocolatiers like Lee Johnson at Fiori Chocolates shouldn't get their moment in the sun.
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But Willis's easygoing, dancing phrasing warmed up the chamber-sized dimensions of the playing, and once the intonation settled, in time for the bewitching Siciliano of the E-major concerto (BWV 1053), the group began to exude more confidence, and the closing Allegro had a happy brio.
Archive 2009-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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