| 单词 | bravura |
| 例句 | On August 13, at an S-l meeting on his home turf in Berkeley, Ernest delivered another bravura presentation on the Rad Lab’s progress. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Trump raged, and Rainbow sang back at him, delivering bravura performances that matched the former President's outsized ego with his own larger-than-life character. Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Albert Speer's Walk Around the World featured a bravura performance from Patrick Malahide as Albert Speer, locked away in Spandau Prison, embarking on imaginary journeys in his mind. Homestead; Highgate Letters; Albert Speer's Walk Around The World; The Carhullan Army 2010-04-17T23:09:00Z Certain gallery solo shows are acknowledged, as with Mike Cloud’s “Removed Individual,” a luscious star-shaped painting à la health food game board, and Robert Longo’s bravura charcoal homage to Helen Frankenthaler’s “Mountains and Sea.” Art Exhibitions From Chelsea to the Lower East Side 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The Schumann may be far from the most technically difficult in the romantic repertoire, but its bravura moments – especially the very opening gesture, and the athletic writing throughout the finale – were authoritatively delivered. Prom 10: Academy of Santa Cecilia/Pappano – review 2013-07-21T12:54:25Z In the second episode, there is a bravura scene between Louie and the actress Melissa Leo, who plays a woman with whom has been set up on a date. Is Louis C.K. even a comedian? 2012-06-28T18:49:00Z The picture represents a boat in the ocean; but just as much, it is a bravura demonstration of paint handling. The Inventive Chef Who Kept His 700 Paintings Hidden 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z After a break, Stewart returned with another bravura thank you: an extended, Goodfellas-style tracking shot through The Daily Show offices. Jon Stewart Bids Farewell With a Small Treat for Himself 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Sadly, his bravura performance — there as needed, personable but never intrusive — is not standard operating procedure at Marcus. Review | At the MGM National Harbor casino, a celebrity chef’s restaurant falls flat 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Smith has specialized in one-man shows charting the life of great black figures, from Frederick Douglass to Bob Marley, and here his theatrical chops and bravura performance make it essential, if difficult viewing. LA riots on film: the projects marking the 25th anniversary of an uprising 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z There was a fluidity and warmth to his playing throughout the program, which concluded with a joyous, bravura performance of Paganini’s showpiece “I Palpiti.” Music Review: Aleksey Semenenko, Young Artist Winner, at Merkin Hall 2014-02-06T23:34:15Z Lessons in travel — and bravura writing — from ‘The Best of Outside: The First 20 Years’ A case for D.H. Lawrence as a father of modern travel writing 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z In particular, the choreography for Clara and the Nutcracker as the grown-up Prince and Princess is intricate, bordering on overwrought, with numerous lifts, supported swoons, bravura supported steps and detailed characterization. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Nutcracker? at BAM - Review 2011-12-15T23:14:49Z When the Bolshoi first visited the west in the 1950s, its bravura, muscular style caused a sensation, and the company went on to become the Soviet Union's single most important cultural export. The Bolshoi ballet: a step-by-step guide to dance 2010-07-20T11:18:00Z Though he showed tension in the coda’s bravura solo sequences, this is an important milestone in his career. Under City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ Tree, Dancers Find New Roles 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z For a few decades people compared its growth rate to Chicago's, and its newly wealthy merchants built lavish houses designed with bravura and skill. City of wood 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z We eagerly anticipate that bravura scene in Act 2, when Troy confesses his devastating transgression, with all the flesh-and-blood implications of what he’s done, but the rawness of the moment isn’t fully activated. Revealing the holes in August Wilson’s ‘Fences’ 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z He sang just fine, but he performed the song with Gaga bravura. 'American Idol': Lady Gaga gives microphone advice 2011-05-12T02:06:53Z They included tailoring in Jacquard weaves for streamlined suits for the man who likes the designer’s V-shape of bravura shoulders slimming down at the hips. Fiscal Crisis Seems Far Away at Milan’s Men’s Wear Shows 2012-06-24T18:23:58Z Besides, isn't a certain bravura coarseness also part of the Russian sound? Yuja Wang and the Russian National Orchestra perform in Northridge 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z As for his bravura bit on sexual jealousy in new relationships, it's as worrying as it is impressive. Comedy gold: Frank Skinner – Stand-Up 2013-01-03T13:29:44Z And "Abbey Road," following bravura editions of "Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "The White Album," doesn’t disappoint. The Beatles' "Abbey Road" at 50, remixed: A definitive deep dive into the greatest rock band at work 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z It’s a bravura demonstration of technology and psychology both playing off and feeding back into each other. Lord of the Ringworld: In Praise of Larry Niven 2012-06-13T13:25:03Z With the award, he seemed well on the way toward an Oscar for a bravura performance as a stage actor locked in a life-or-death struggle with his own potential. Golden Globe Awards Winners Include ‘Boyhood’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Resisting the charms of Johansson should indicate a bravura performance, but Walker, a rambunctious delight in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, seems oddly passive here. Cat On a Hot Tin Roof – review 2013-01-18T10:08:04Z It is the bravura performance of a writer, poised at the edge of the day’s vast darkness, gathering all the warmth and light of our inner summer. Review | Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ concludes her seasonal quartet on a high note 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z Several customized bravura sequences show her toggling with daredevil facility among various characters and moods. Review: Staging a True Family Nightmare in ‘Accidentally Brave’ 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z If all those complicated long takes weren’t enough to clinch it for Deakins, the bravura nighttime sequence halfway through the film surely would be. Oscars 2020 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z What's startling is the sheer bravura, the idiosyncrasy, the uniqueness of the work. Alice Oswald wins inaugural Ted Hughes award 2010-03-30T19:20:00Z It’s a bravura piece of music, done full justice by Ms. Testa’s magnetically focused interpretation. | 'Queen of the Mist' : ?Queen of the Mist? at the Gym at Judson - Review 2011-11-07T03:01:01Z It was a bravura demonstration of her ability to twist and tame reality, both playful and chillingly violent at once. On the Campaign Trail with Cornelia Parker, the U.K.’s Official Election Artist 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z The poem remains a bravura performance, though not an ostentatious one; much like oysters, it is raw and briny and tender all at once—“and bowing not knowing to what.” When You Go Away: Remembering W. S. Merwin 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Bartee is the more fanciful contender in this showdown, dancing to his own loopy beat, while Postlewaite is the tough guy and show-off, full of emphatic bravura. At Whim W'Him, comedy steals the show 2012-01-21T19:18:03Z He chose "Closer to the Edge," he sang with Sheryl Crow in rehearsal, and he aced the performance with his familiar bravura. 'American Idol': Who wants to win? 2011-05-05T05:12:42Z The most pleasing bravura dancing — style and flair — in this season’s “Nutcrackers” came from Anthony Huxley, Ms. Pereira’s partner; he’s an admirable though not impeccable partner. Critic’s Notebook: Versions of Sugar Plums at New York City Ballet 2012-12-29T01:10:26Z You can hear echoes of that monument to sweaty bravura in the Weeks' music, which they call "sludge-pop", fair enough considering this muddy mush of soul, Americana, roots rock and ersatz raunch. New band of the day: The Weeks (No 1,490) 2013-04-11T15:58:27Z In just a few minutes his voice reached a crescendo, a bravura re-consecration of journalism in these times as “advanced citizenship.” Meet Joshua Johnson, Diane Rehm’s successor — and a bold move for WAMU 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Its most bravura trick is rooted less in a display of mastery than one of vulnerability. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z With its tone of moody portentousness and its bravura finale, it didn’t convince everyone, but it aimed high and showed indomitable nerve. Vox Lux director Brady Corbet: 'The movie is about the desire to be iconic' 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z But bravura editing and good intentions can't hide the fact is that this fussy but strangely unseasoned dish of exotic ingredients is suffocated by its ambition and ends up being a dollop of visual blancmange. Life in a Day's blancmange offers sugar but little substance 2011-01-26T12:39:32Z In a bravura installation designed by Adjaye Associates, the pictures are organized thematically and theatrically. Avedon at 100: Photos of Seduction 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z “The question is: Has Amis created anything more than this bravura black comedy? Are his monsters more than cartoon grotesques?” Martin Amis’s ‘Zone of Interest’ Makes European Publishers Squirm 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Her streak of playfulness burst open like a sunflower in a bravura rendition of “If You Hadn’t, But You Did,” the Comden-Green-Styne tongue twister from “Two on the Aisle.” Music Review: Finding the Then in a Suite of Songs From Now 2011-03-11T22:53:02Z Thanks in large part to Miss Streep’s bravura performance, it’s a film that casts a powerful, uninterrupted spell,” wrote Janet Maslin in her review for The Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Dr. Tony Fauci’ and the Mark Twain Prize 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The film’s second half asks hard questions about trauma and recovery, allowing Larson and her co-star Jacob Tremblay to add additional layers to their complex, bravura performances. Stream These 15 Great Titles Before They Leave Netflix in July 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Endowed with sweetly spun melodies and a bravura finale, the concerto is an unapologetic showpiece for a virtuoso performer. Music Review: An Exuberant Conductor and a Starry Violinist 2011-08-07T21:48:50Z For all the intellectual bravura, Pendleton’s project carries an undercurrent of melancholy. Adam Pendleton Is Rethinking the Museum 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z You need to delimit your options; it’s best to go uptempo and syncopated and bravura, with narrow grooves. Playlist: New CDs by Judith Berkson, Trash Talk and Others 2010-05-28T21:25:00Z "The double piano possesses fine sonority of perfect distinction, and the qualities of elasticity, gentleness and bravura," noted a reviewer in Le Menestrel, in 1898. Jazz: Piano a rare find in Bix's hometown 2011-05-02T21:50:00Z Bruno Procopio directed his four singers and a handful of instrumentalists in performances that negotiated the fine line between devotional austerity and bravura with exquisite dexterity. Fiesta Criolla/From Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro 2010-08-20T13:50:00Z The bravura opening montage, set to the strains of Bob Dylan’s The Times They Are A Changin’, is unequalled in comic book movies. Critics assemble: our writers pick their favorite superhero films 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z But the scholastic throat-clearing quickly gives way to a bravura performance of storytelling, in an elegant prose style throughout that does not sacrifice intelligence for readability. Colin Dickey explores American's haunted mansions in 'Ghostland' 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z After its creepy and bravura opening, “Phase Six” — the title refers to the World Health Organization’s highest pandemic level — stalls. In ‘Phase Six,’ Two Women Get to Work Saving the World From a Pandemic 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Instead of being cheered by this bravura, many folks think this is the cherry blossom of early April and the sky must be falling. Grab those pruners — there’s seasonal work to be done in the garden 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Cristofer, in the richest role, dominates the play without resorting to displays of obvious bravura. Theater Review: ‘Don’t Go Gentle,’ by Stephen Belber, at Lucille Lortel 2012-10-15T02:00:00Z I found "Shutter Island," which has plenty of admirers, exhausting in its bravura. 'Biutiful': Melodrama and tension get top billing 2011-01-26T20:23:02Z Among actors, Michael Keaton received his expected nomination for his bravura turn in “Birdman” as an aging screen superhero seeking salvation on the stage. Oscar Nominations 2015: 'Birdman' and 'Grand Budapest Hotel' Lead the Pack 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z But her famous work in "August: Osage County" notwithstanding, Morton is just not the kind of divalike actress who delivers the bravura with unctuous relish. 'Woolf' driven by dangerous George 2010-12-13T00:23:32Z This masterpiece of Romantic bravura pointedly tangles up artistic conception with natural creation. Getty exhibition makes a case for the enduring power of Theodore Rousseau 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Even more dispiriting than presenting this crusty comic ballet, mainly beloved for its bravura power, was the way Ballet Theater dusted the cobwebs off something else: gimmick casting. Ballet Theater Returns to the Met With a Gimmicky ‘Don Quixote’ 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The trilogy was a bravura performance, and one had every reason to expect that Mackay would do more with such rich material. ‘Every Night I Dream of Hell’ takes us deep inside a hit man’s life 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Ferbos never sought the spotlight and did not aspire to the bravura style of soloing made famous by New Orleans trumpeters Joe “King” Oliver and Louis Armstrong. Lionel Ferbos, the oldest jazz musician in New Orleans, dies at 103 With the orchestra playing Minkus at a bravura clip, this baggy war horse of a ballet races along like a thoroughbred. Mikhailovsky Ballet: Don Quixote – review 2013-04-01T12:11:43Z Then it explodes in gruesome violence and bravura set pieces, served up with the bombast and humour you just don't get from a Wire grumblethon. Breaking Bad: Aaron Paul plays a drug-dealing killer and viewers can't get enough of him 2012-10-12T23:01:00Z There’s its bravura opening for one, an unbroken eight-minute ballet introducing us to the major players and murky politics of early 14th-century Scotland. Full frontal: why the fuss over Chris Pine's 'dazzling' penis? 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z The director Kantemir Balagov crams his frame with people — a celebratory dinner is a bravura example of his use of cinematic space — a choice that captures the existential push and pull of identity. 11 Movies You Need to Know at New Directors/New Films 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z The choreography Ratmansky has made in response to this music is fleet, full-bodied and muscular, with a special emphasis on male bravura. Alexei Ratmansky’s Epic Ballet Arrives in a Changed World 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Played by Mr. Andsnes with clarity, eloquent lyricism and fearless bravura, Grieg’s familiar music, often milked to Romantic excess, emerged as an intricate, even daring composition. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Ghesquière’s bravura collection was another spirited argument for the bounty of fashion. Perspective | Fashion commits many sins. It’s trying to redeem itself. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z As she sings with a convincing bravura, “I’m not lonely, baby — I am free.” Hayley Williams Lays Down New Roots on Her First Solo Album 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z I wasn't expecting such a bravura curatorial flourish at the Barbican this summer. Nothing to see here - beyond the blockbuster exhibitions 2010-07-09T20:31:00Z With bold filmmaking choices — including a bravura title sequence that compactly depicts Harley's time in a hospital after a suicide attempt — the movie plunges the viewer into this forbidding world. 'Heavens Knows What' star knows all about the street life film depicts 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z It might not have the literary bravura of The Hare With Amber Eyes – my tip for the main prize, for what it's worth – but it is hugely "enjoyable". Keith Richards's literary life is the way forward for biography 2010-12-17T11:33:26Z It offers the sense of sublimity that characterizes Calatrava’s best work but that the Oculus, for all its bravura showiness, does not achieve. The Best Part of Calatrava’s Oculus 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Some reflect the bludgeoning, dulling force of directorial will to bravura exertions that seemingly declare, with the pompous vanity of each image, that they are important, that they are artists. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z He is showcased in the series’s best sequence, a tense, bravura scene in which Leonard rallies himself to help Beth acquire a crucial account. ‘Life & Beth’ Review: Further Inside Amy Schumer 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z “Nightingale” is obviously bravura television, a showcase geared more toward critical acclaim and acting awards than ratings. Review: David Oyelowo, Going Mad in ‘Nightingale’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z What she often lacks is stamina, a full-throttle bravura technique and a fluent line that makes her legs and arms move in a single impulse. Dance Review: ‘Jewels’ Returns to New York City Ballet’s Repertory 2014-01-23T23:23:37Z The band strikes up, gathers itself, sets off full of hope and bravura, and as the car runs out of steam so does the band. Francis Al?s treads the thin green line 2010-06-14T20:30:00Z Guitarist Mike Stern, one of the more popular proponents, on Tuesday produced a performance strong on bravura, fast scales, disturbingly toothy grins and showmanship at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club. Melbourne jazz festival 2013: reviews and weekend highlights 2013-06-07T02:01:13Z In his large-scale photographs, which are produced with a movie crew in bravura Hollywood style, the people stare off into space, cloaked in solipsistic misery. For Gregory Crewdson, Truth Lurks in the Landscape 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z The concerts, conducted by David Robertson, include Mr. Williams’s “The Imperial March,” from the movie “Star Wars”; his bravura tuba concerto with the orchestra’s own Alan Baer as soloist; and Holst’s ever popular “The Planets.” Classical Music Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Mulligan gives a bravura performance here, slipping in an out of a series of characters in an effort to achieve a kind of closure. Revenge never tasted so deliciously venomous in the slick and twisty "Promising Young Woman" 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z They work with a mix of impunity, entitlement, disregard and bravura. Uncouth, Cranky and Rude: Movies in 1988 Were a Far Cry From Today 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Mal's bravura turn as the Channel Swimmer was a highlight, to be certain, in the roadie's storied career with the Beatles. The role Beatles roadie Mal Evans was born to play 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z If the bravura dementia of his Howard makes much of the rest of the show seem as two-dimensional as a flat TV screen, it’s a trade-off I’m willing to accept, albeit with a sigh. Review: An Electrifying Bryan Cranston Is All the Rage in ‘Network’ 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z It was at Studio Theatre that, as a child, he saw his first professional production, a bravura staging of “Waiting for Godot” with African American actors playing Samuel Beckett’s famous existential clowns. A playwright who’s at ease with causing discomfort 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z From a handbag mixing banana-yellow python with lace to grand evening gowns with Hessian-like corsets, the collection had a dash and bravura within its graphic frames. Special Report: Fashion: Surface Attraction 2011-02-27T17:05:09Z Mr. Scott does not forget his day job or his pleasures, and the book ends with a bravura section on food criticism and the Pixar movie “Ratatouille.” Review: In ‘Better Living Through Criticism,’ A. O. Scott Offers Insight 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z He never disappears into the role – no one could – but it's a bravura attempt, ably supported by Shelley Winters as Presley's beloved momma. This week's new DVD and Blu-ray releases 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z But ballet’s bravura steps and story showpieces still exerted mystique. This LGBTQ ‘Giselle’ celebrates individuality, putting a spotlight on non-inclusiveness in classical ballet 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Yet while the actor's "bravura acting" drew praise in Time Out New York, its reviewer felt it did not stop Bernard Pomerance's play being a "clunky chestnut". Cooper takes Elephant Man to Broadway 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z And that if a certain cachet and bravura has been lost, quite a bit has been gained in terms of intellectual brio and open debate. Pauline Kael and Her Legacy 2011-10-15T22:17:20Z “Now and Then” will be accompanied by bravura remixes of the so-called “Red” and “Blue” albums. "Now and Then": The history of the Beatles' final song and how it's getting released 46 years later 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z By cutting among three simultaneous dreams, film editor Lee Smith's work harkens to the granddaddy of bravura editing, Cecil B. DeMille's "Intolerance." Oscar speculation underway for "Inception" 2010-07-19T05:19:00Z The role needs virile grace, calm lyricism and easy bravura. Dance Review: Ashton’s ‘Sylvia’ Is Revived at American Ballet Theater 2013-06-25T21:14:40Z The opening shot — an extended bit of cinematic bravura that takes in the pageantry and cruelty of a Louisiana plantation — seems to locate the action in the midst of the Civil War. ‘Antebellum’ Review: Look Away, Dixie Land 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Celebrity The fascinating story of Nicole Kidman's forehead When the Golden Globe nominations were announced Tuesday, one nod in particular stood out as a bravura performance in spite of the performer's famous limitations. The fascinating story of Nicole Kidman's forehead 2010-12-15T16:30:00Z In the “Swan Lake” pas de deux, Ms. Boylston found time to use her music expressively even within virtuosity; acute details of incidental footwork were as telling as the big bravura moments. Critic’s Notebook: The Vail International Dance Festival Turns 25 2013-08-04T21:58:01Z Subway dances, which pull the everyday into art and the art into the everyday, blur that delicate line with bravura. Subway Performances Can Be a Wonder of Grit and Grace 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z David Thomson intuits the secret afterlife of Psycho in the American mind, in a short book which is like an inspired, bravura jazz solo. The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder by David Thomson | The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower by Robert Graysmith 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Mr. Camp, a brave, bravura actor known for his bold physical performances, gives one here as the degraded, insulted Elvira. Theater Review: ‘In a Year With 13 Moons,’ Directed by Robert Woodruff 2013-05-09T21:08:43Z In the grandest numbers – the superb chorus He Comes to End Our Woes, with its bravura horn parts, and the lengthy final choral sequence, with its thrilling trumpet writing – the overall effect was magnificent. Esther – review 2013-04-28T14:55:01Z Many of the post-Pop tableaus in the movie feature groups of mannequinlike figures used to illustrate his theories about art, money and commodification, but most lack the bravura of his publicity stunts. 'Con Artist': Entertaining portrait of an art-world satirist and near-pariah 2011-03-24T22:23:15Z “Sea,” one of Mr. Taylor’s Americana dances, is not about technical bravura, as many of his works are. Paul Taylor Alumni Return for 60th Anniversary Celebration 2014-03-21T21:23:57Z And Mr. Catazaro, though his powers in bravura technique are limited, showed more blaze and sweep than ever before. Taking the Pulse of New York City Ballet Without Peter Martins 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Likewise, a bravura sequence late in the film, shot entirely without music, is a highlight. Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman": De Niro, Pacino and Pesci shine in this intimate gangster epic 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z They played the often-distorted First Concerto with the requisite bravura and with winning freshness. CSO: Hough, Elder, Tchaikovsky a match made in heaven 2011-01-07T20:59:00Z Later, Jennifer Hudson sang a brief, respectful “I Will Always Love You,” wisely backing off imitating Ms. Houston’s bravura peaks. Critic?s Notebook: Whitney Houston?s Death Casts Shadow on Grammys 2012-02-13T05:31:15Z There are very few wild, bravura visual flights and not much in the way of wild conspiracymongering. Review: ‘Snowden,’ Oliver Stone’s Restrained Portrait of a Whistle-Blower 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z It opened to mixed reviews, but both actors won praise for their performances, which Matt Wolf, writing in The New York Times, deemed “bravura.” ‘The Collaboration,’ About Warhol and Basquiat, Plans Broadway Bow 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z His skill in steering Ms. Laracey through the varied demands of the adagio suggests that he is one of nature’s cavaliers, but his brief solo also suggests that he has elegance within bravura. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nutcracker’ Dancers in This Season’s Performances 2013-12-31T20:45:44Z Mary Carmen Catoya, who shared with her the lead roles in “Divertimento No. 15” and “Don Quixote,” proved her equal in coloratura footwork and, in “Don Quixote,” showed even more relish for bravura. Dance Review: Miami City Ballet in Liam Scarlett Work at Kravis Center 2013-01-28T23:05:18Z Despite a few line glitches, Ms. Richardson meets the challenge of shaping the verse capably, setting the shimmering phrases apart from Dickinson’s chattering monologue with a nice delicacy, and a welcome absence of ostentatious bravura. ‘The Belle of Amherst’: Joely Richardson as Dickinson 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z With bravura and hard-won insight, these poems explore identity, survival and home from first- and second-generation perspectives, offering a multiplicity of impressions and memories. Review | Three inspiring books for young readers, from preschool to high school 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z A second meaning for “Upper Lip Dance” became evident as Matthew Harding, a superb trumpeter, produced bravura sounds in a version of the work arranged for unaccompanied piccolo trumpet. Music Review: Karlheinz Stockhausen Seen in a Different Light 2010-05-04T21:25:00Z Duran’s opening number, sung with bravura intensity that Henry sustains throughout, asks knotty musical questions of identity like, “What if I’m based on an untrue story?” and promises “an existential dive into my soul.” Review: ‘The Wrong Man’ Sets a Universal Nightmare to Music 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z He has this bravura opening scene where he’s handling the phone. Why “Angels in America” endures: “Without gay people, you can’t tell the story of America” 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z It is a bravura performance, and perhaps it also speaks to just a faint awareness that there is otherness in the world. Perspective | N.C. Wyeth painted the world full of beauty, resilience and adventure. And full of white people. 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z “Pas de Duke,” created in 1976 as a gala vehicle for Ms. Jamison and Mikhail Baryshnikov, shifts between modern dance and bravura ballet. Alvin Ailey Troupe in an Evening of Mostly Ellington 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Mr. de Luz has no better vehicle; the combination of fluent bravura and informal elegance suits him completely. Dance Review: First a Toast to the Past, Then the Frolics of a Bubbly Balanchine 2011-06-01T22:30:32Z The designer quoted Brigitte Bardot as his muse, but there was something of “Carmen” in the bravura of big skirts, peasant tops, loose hair, smoky eyes and ebony crosses at the throat. Special Report: Fashion: At Jil Sander, Raf Simons Plays With Modernism 2011-09-25T16:45:15Z When a dancer is barrelling around the stage in a bravura classical variation, he is meant to impress. Ballet is in the teeth of a dilemma 2013-06-19T10:44:15Z After a villainous rival threatens Raymonda’s happiness, love triumphs in grand style, with the happy couple trying to outdo each other’s bravura heights. Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Raymonda’ comes slowly to life 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z He played the leisurely pianissimo passages with a silky touch, and attacked the thundering octave passages with spectacular bravura. At Seattle Symphony: Elliott Carter premiere, rousing Rossini | Classical review 2013-02-08T17:56:18Z That’s not the stool of the leader of a master race, for whom bravura, confidence and youthful vigour was so central, is it? Hitler’s Hidden Drug Habit; Downton Abbey review – high Hitler, and hang Bates 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Cheung, possessed of both bravura technique and telling stillness, radiates this inner tangle, which the interstitial musical numbers, done in Japanese with subtitles on designer Tesshi Nakagawa's dual perspective set, certainly demonstrate by default. In 'Takarazuka!!!,' coming of age in a blend of gender roles 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z His piercing pain and comic bravura were as fine as any acted performance in any medium I've ever seen. 'Opera has never been more alive' 2011-08-19T23:19:01Z In a brief, bravura sequence that bridges crucial moments in the young Celeste’s life, the music — its swirling, urgent strings and resonant, heavily punctuating drums — accompanies low-angle images of New York buildings. ‘Vox Lux’ Review: An Apocalyptic Star Is Born 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z “It’s not the kind of bravura physicality, it’s much more internalized and soft. It’s fascinating.” David Tennant, a Former Doctor Who, Dons a Monarch’s Crown 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z This year, he’s in the running again for his bravura work on the World War I drama “1917.” ‘1917’ and the Challenge of Making a Film Look Like a Single Shot 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z A bravura long poem, "The Case of After", states the dilemma in terms of grammar. Pluto by Glyn Maxwell – review 2013-04-20T11:01:01Z A serenade, an interestingly broken sonnet, a bravura musical performance, perfect marriage of sound and sensuality; a passionate seduction and one of the loveliest lyrics in the language. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z And both issues are less important to the success of this endearing little movie than Donna’s comic spin on her miseries and Slate’s bravura turn in the title role. REVIEW: Obvious Child: Do Not Abort This Movie! 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z The race scene itself is a terrific Two Lane Blacktop nail-biter, a bravura black comic nightmare of horses and cars and high-speed desperation and cruelty. Cannes 2013: The Selfish Giant – review 2013-05-17T08:30:01Z Was Medea’s revenge on Jason so bravura that playgoers stopped to shower the actors in wild applause? Perspective | Play It Again | These songs from musicals changed my life. Now they can sustain me. 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z It lacks the austere grandeur of “All Is Lost,” the spiritual hoo-ha and digital gee-whizzery of “Life of Pi” and the technological bravura of “Gravity,” which it most resembles in terms of plot and mood. Review: Shailene Woodley Braves the Elements in ‘Adrift’ 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s bravura filmmaking by the director, Xavier Gens, who also deserves credit for abetting testy ensemble acting from a solid cast. | 'The Divide': ?The Divide,? Directed by Xavier Gens - Review 2012-01-12T22:45:21Z The program was a likable exhibition of mostly display pieces, played with an ideal balance between clarity and bravura. The proof is in: The pipe organ is still the king of instruments 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z In these bravura performances of draftsmanship on sheets of paper that are 12 ½-feet or 26-feet wide, the screws extend horizontally as if they were drilling tunnels through mountains. Art Review: ‘Judith Bernstein: HARD’ at the New Museum 2012-12-20T23:01:31Z Thursday night, the audience at Meany Hall was treated to a bravura performance of the classic “Don Quixote” pas de deux, complete with soaring leaps, dramatic partnering and spot-on spins. The Trocks: They could’ve danced all night | Dance review 2013-05-17T20:47:19Z She had already started to lose interest in bravura juggling displays, and turned instead to using cactuses or heavy tires. A Transgender Director Who Defies Genres (to France’s Confusion) 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Moments of traditionally male bravura and traditionally female beauty resonate or mix intriguingly — the men at once like boxers and ballerinas — but only in passing. Review: Madboots Dance Ignores Gender Boundaries 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z One might imagine that, with movements titled “Turbulent,” “Searching” and “Restless,” Sebastian Currier’s 1989 piece “Clockwork” would require the same kind of bravura attack as the Respighi and Saint-Saëns works. Review | Violinist delivers an expressive Romantic performance at the Kennedy Center 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z In two days she would sing the title role of Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera, in what The Times would describe as a “bravura performance.” Anna Netrebko Shops the Way She Sings: Exuberantly 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z In addition to “Norma,” she had performed, to wide acclaim, Donizetti’s Tudor operas at the Met in 2016, a bravura feat that Beverly Sills made famous in the 1970s at New York City Opera. How to Be Medea? Summon Your Anger and Despair, and Hit the Gym. 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z One of this book’s bravura passages is her extended analysis of how miserable it would be to try to kill yourself by drowning. Cormac McCarthy’s Unsettling Dream of a Novel 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z In a bravura sequence of mixed digital effects, Paddington imagines himself and Lucy as miniatures wandering through the book’s pop-up cardboard pages. Review: Excellence Pursued in ‘Paddington 2’ 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z The series is most jolly when a bravura actor improvises to make dramatic sense of a wet-brained narrator’s stumble. Drunk History season two: it isn’t quite as funny when it isn’t quite as trashed 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Their style downplayed the emotions and bravura skills of the artist, increasing the autonomy of the art object, a concept basic to Western modernism. Félix Fénéon, the Collector-Anarchist Who Was Seurat’s First Champion 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z He was there to remind Academy voters of his smashing comeback in “Dolemite is My Name,” in which he delivers a bravura turn as the 1970s comedy star of the movie’s title. At the pre-Oscars Governors Awards, a starry night for an industry in flux 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z On a technical level, Nolan told Collider he would be eschewing 3D in favour of the combination of Imax footage and high-definition film which made The Dark Knight such a bravura visual experience. Christopher Nolan's Inception: the first brain-ache blockbuster 2010-05-06T13:14:00Z As in his recent debut as the “Nutcracker” Cavalier, Mr. Janzen delivered bravura in this role with rhythmic élan. Critic’s Notebook: Three Men Leap Forward at City Ballet 2014-02-11T22:31:39Z And in a bravura penultimate chapter, she lingers in the resuscitation room at the Royal London Hospital Major Trauma Center. ‘Nine Pints’ Is a Brisk Biography of Blood 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z In his improvisations, on tenor and soprano saxophone, Mr. Shorter didn’t play grand old man, delivering bravura statements with predictable arcs followed by obvious spaces for applause. Review: Wayne Shorter Goes Solo With the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The cellist sailed through the bravura passages that often cause trouble with an ease that belied their difficulty. The audience was ready for Dvorák, and SSO’s cellist delivered 2014-03-28T16:07:36Z The fair this year needed as much bravura as it could muster. Design: Milan's Furniture Whirlwind 2011-04-18T14:01:14Z Where does Alice Munro get the bravura to jump 25 years between paragraphs? Author, author: Tessa Hadley 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Pleasing crowds with his agility and bravura, Ali had no need to cultivate the essentials of defensive boxing. Muhammad Ali, Beginning to End for the First Time in a Book 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z This is bravura filmmaking in the service of a haunting vision, not unlike Orson Welles’s “Touch of Evil,” which the producer of “The Tarnished Angels,” Albert Zugsmith, would mount for Universal a year later. DVDs: Douglas Sirk Without Tears 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z During the first-movement cadenza, when Ma scooted up to hit a bravura high G, an appreciative voice in the back of the hall declaimed, “Yeah.” A perfect storm: Yo-Yo Ma, Haydn and Bach with Seattle Symphony 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Fans of fireworks won't be disappointed though, in either the opening Capriccio in F sharp minor or the astonishingly assured bravura finale of the Sonata in E major, both the work of the teenage Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn: The Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol 1 – review 2013-02-24T00:05:38Z This is McCarthy and Scott having infectious fun with humanity’s dark side, including two bravura murder scenes notable for their cruelty and creativity. Stream These Five Cormac McCarthy Film Adaptations 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Every so often, he would lean over and whisper about some enjoyable or dissonant moment — the bravura of the conductor’s baton, the ill-fitting costume on the mezzo soprano. Perspective | With Terrence McNally’s death, the theater has lost a voice of consummate wit and passion 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z His bravura and extravagance in creating Selfridges was boundless, as was his optimism. Jeremy Piven moves from Ari to Harry in PBS series 2013-03-29T20:49:13Z In Beethoven’s “Appassionata” Sonata, Mr. Lupu devoted as much energy to the score’s introspective qualities as to its high-tension bravura writing. 2010-02-03T22:56:00Z Some, like Warhol and Anjelica Huston, enjoyed the bravura of Hugo, who called himself Halston’s “art adviser” and designed Halston’s shop windows eclectically as a crime scene or a mannequin in labor. Ewan McGregor: Dahling, He’s Halston! 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z The apparent modesty of Austen's dramas is only apparent; the minuteness of design is a bravura achievement. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z These three paintings confirm that while all is not well with the world, the artist’s deliberate avoidance of bravura implies that there is always another way to do things. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z In a bravura extended sequence, Akissi and her cousins visit her Nan’s distant village. Brief Tales for New Readers and Little Listeners From Philip Stead and More 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z The opening sequence is the most eye-catching, but keep watch for two other 10-minute-plus shots; all three of these bravura scenes use visual elements created over several years. Gravity: The Glory of Cinema’s Future 2013-10-04T00:00:44Z And then for the big bravura move, she said, “They can wait if they like until next November for the actual balloting, but Donald Trump was elected president tonight.” Ann Coulter’s odious anti-Muslim rants: Of course she’s exploiting the Paris terror attacks to entertain racist, xenophobic fans 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The unintended consequence of Fountain's bravura performance is to reduce the experience to words and style. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain – review 2012-07-14T23:05:44Z And Mr. Wurtz’s efforts constantly question the way expensive materials and bravura skills affect our experience of art objects by effortlessly demonstrating how to hold our interest while doing without both. Art Review: An Artist Who Makes Much Out of Very Little 2011-06-30T22:05:51Z His Firebird, a bravura role with jumps and turns, is the only dancer on point in the whole ballet. In ‘Firebird,’ the Choreographer’s Art Is in Storytelling 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z When you see Dustin Hoffman giving one of his bravura performances – something involving a lazy eye, or a limp – you don't forget it's Dustin Hoffman. Oscars 2011: Melissa Leo takes the low road to success 2011-02-25T21:00:01Z At the end, these small folk stamped and cheered with authentic bravura, led on by a few Teutonically enthusiastic mums and dads. Bayreuth festival: Lohengrin 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z London was the backdrop for the film's opening bravura action sequence, where Sparrow once again barely evades capture. 'Pirates of Caribbean' turn 4, seek fountain of youth 2011-05-17T16:26:32Z As the lead, Daniel Harder was superb, imbuing his sharper gestures with vulnerability and more flowing passages with an arrogant bravura. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, at City Center 2013-12-11T22:17:24Z Many cheering balletomanes evidently were satisfied with the lavish and prolific displays of bravura dancing. Dance Review: ‘Le Corsaire,’ American Ballet Theater 2013-06-05T22:00:27Z The Boston run of the show had been receiving solid reviews with the Boston Globe heralding her “bravura” performance but noting that “she was slightly rusty on her lines”. Faye Dunaway fired from Broadway-bound play Tea at Five 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Look out for the bravura party scene, cut to Carl Douglas's Kung Fu Fighting, which marks the beginning of all-out war. City of God: No 6 2010-10-19T10:49:00Z In the bravura passage that follows, Powers describes the way that Els listens to the music: Music, Fiction, and the Value of Attention 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z As Stoppard flips through this Rolodex of Viennese machers, you may recognize his trademark bravura: tossing you into the deep end of his imagination, trusting that you’ll eventually surface. Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z And, of course, there are always the songs, which Bennett delivers with the right mixture of emotional intensity and vocal bravura. End of the Rainbow - review 2010-11-23T01:04:00Z It's a bravura sequence that simultaneously recalls the tracking shots of Martin Scorsese and the Kezar Stadium scenes from "Dirty Harry." "The Secret in Their Eyes": Argentina's Oscar-winning romantic thriller 2010-04-17T18:01:00Z Elsewhere, in passages of agitated difficulty, the bravura and bite of the young violinist’s technique are evident. Itzhak Perlman, Violin Legend, Still Proves the Critics Wrong 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z I don’t mean to suggest that this is an awards-soliciting display of acting technique, a movie star’s bravura impersonation of an ordinary person. ‘Nomadland’ Review: The Unsettled Americans 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z But the beauty of these duets surpassed their bravura. Review: Gabriel Missé and Guillermina Quiroga Tango With Passion and Laughter 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z As serpents strangle an agonized priest and his writhing sons, a bravura paradox emerges: Ideal beauty is embedded in a sculptural ensemble of suffering and death. Charles Ray's sculptures cast a forceful modern eye on antiquity 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s a bravura performance in which war becomes farce, history becomes burlesque. A Comic Novel Asks Who Gets to Write the History of the Colonial Philippines 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z She’s alone onstage, in profile to the audience, standing with one of her two turned-out, flat feet in front of the other in fourth position, halfway through a bravura solo. Dance Review: Frederick Ashton Celebrated by the Sarasota Ballet 2014-05-05T21:49:58Z Early reputation notwithstanding, "Wild Life" has been given a bravura vinyl rerelease. Wings debut "Wild Life" turns 50 with powerful vinyl reissue 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z As is often the case, the show is anchored by some bravura object-making, in this case a life-size, quite realistic glazed ceramic sculpture of a giant squid resting in a pool of dark liquid. Art in Review: DAVID ZINK YI: ?Pneuma? 2011-07-21T21:44:44Z Singing Donizetti’s three queens in one season is a bravura feat, one that Beverly Sills made famous in the 1970s at New York City Opera. Sondra Radvanovsky, Opera Royalty, Takes On Donizetti’s Triple Crown 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Love brought the house down with her bravura performance of "River Deep Mountain High" with the Disciples of Soul. American Music Honors: Jon Stewart hosts an event celebrating a vast tapestry of musical styles 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z The Davis/Evans segment, with its chamber-music blends of woodwinds and horn lines alternately bravura and sighing, shimmered with such aching beauty, particularly on "Sketches of Spain," that it brought tears to people's eyes. Monterey Jazz Festival still kickin' at 54 2011-09-19T19:36:04Z It was the kind of bravura moment Mr. Soderbergh indulges in every once in a while, as if to say, Yeah, it’s TV. 'The Knick' Recap: A Dazzling Shot, and Other Developments 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z The ballet opens on him exploding in bravura steps, but soon he is moping and still as other men leap around him. Review: With ‘AfterEffect,’ Marcelo Gomes Debuts as a Choreographer 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z But in the bravura soliloquy that concludes “Head of Passes,” Ms. Rashad crescendos to a state of fiery defiance for which rage is too mild a word. Review: In ‘Head of Passes,’ Phylicia Rashad Is a Matriarch With Worries 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The final act contains some stunningly dark and desperate music, with a funerary chorus, ominous drums and a bravura aria for Parisina, “Ugo è spento,” in which she veers between shocked grief and vindictive rage. Review: The Opera Orchestra of New York Shares a Story Inspired by a Byron Poem 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z As expected, Douglas Hodge won best actor for his bravura turn as the drag queen Albin, while Terry Johnson won for best direction. ?Red? and ?Memphis? Win Top Tony Awards 2010-06-14T04:10:00Z Leon Miller finds that the first two episodes of the series “come up short,” despite being “impressively cinematic” with “bravura camera work.” ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’: The Reviews Are in 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Radvanovsky will perform the bravura feat of singing Donizetti’s three Tudor queens in one season, mirroring Beverly Sills’s achievement at New York City Opera in the 1970s. Review: In ‘Maria Stuarda,’ Sondra Radvanovsky Makes a Vivid Impact 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z The visceral punch and drive of its prose in many bravura passages—notably, the lorry crash that buries Gaza in a tide of corpses—evokes Irvine Welsh or William Burroughs more than “Oliver Twist”. People-smugglers 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z As the ballerina, Gillian Murphy easily dispatched both the sisterly stuff and the male bravura steps. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z Among the newly unearthed material — never circulated in any form — is a hard-charging, nearly eight-minute version of “Caravan,” which stamped the concert with a bravura finale. 'Concert by the Sea,' a Jazz Classic by Erroll Garner, Is to Be Reissued 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z With time, the brushy bravura of her early work evolved into a more lyrical style that evoked the subtleties of visual perception. Jane Freilicher, Lyrical Painter of Long Island Light, Dies at 90 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z It was, according to Nicholas Hytner, the National theatre's artistic director, Russell Beale's bravura comic performance last year in London Assurance that got him his first part on the stage once graced by Nureyev. This week's arts diary 2011-02-22T22:01:00Z She was bravura liquefied, gloriously playing with music, balance and time; she also danced William Forysthe’s “Händel Duet,” a forgettable exercise in pretty ballet conventionality. At Vail Festival, Dance Artists Renew and Extend Themselves 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z These words describe the German Expressionist cinema during the Weimar era after World War I — a bravura brand of filmmaking that is still mesmerizing audiences and influencing filmmakers today. LACMA spotlights '20s German Expressionist films 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z “It’s a moment that encapsulates all of the American values,” he said, adding, “the bravura, the nothing-is-impossible attitude, the technological superiority.” In ‘Grey Rock,’ a Palestinian Playwright Tackles the Ordinary 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z For the Russian soprano Albina Shagimuratova, it was her first turn in the bravura role of Konstanze, the noblewoman whose fidelity is tested when she is abducted and sold into Turkish slavery. Review: James Levine Opens Last Run as Metropolitan Opera Music Director 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z It is possible that Mr. Wells has simply mishandled the material, riding roughshod over subtleties and muffling bravura moments. Movie Review: ‘August: Osage County,’ With Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts 2013-12-26T15:07:50Z But it has been some time since I’ve seen a stage actor give off the sort of full-throttle intensity that characterizes Tracie Bennett’s bravura occupancy of Judy Garland in “End of the Rainbow .” On the London Stage: It's Judy's World and Welcome to It 2010-12-01T08:00:00Z Just as Logan Roy's fanbase includes plenty of people he wouldn't allow to shine his shoes, John Dutton's bravura and the rest of his family's messiness is truly a big tent affair. The "Yellowstone" effect: Welcome to the new era of TV Westerns 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z And there are other reasons to watch the series, like its bravura direction and critiques of consumerism. ‘Westworld’: A Show That’s Amazing but Not Necessarily Good 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Painted with feverish, ham-handed bravura, Mr. Fischl’s images are like snapshots censored from an otherwise wholesome family photo album. Searching for Light in the Darkness of the ’80s 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Shorter shared the band’s front line with a bravura young trumpeter, Lee Morgan, forming a musical kinship that soon extended to his own albums, and eventually to Morgan’s. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The concerto’s single movement encompasses five contrasting sections and incorporates bravura solo passages that feature rapid passagework and double stops, which Mr. Feeney played with flair. Music Review: Dusting Off the Real Dragonetti Concerto 2010-10-05T21:15:00Z A tender encounter many years later poignantly counterpoints Rachel’s still-thorny relations with her son, and a final revelation provides Hoffman’s lavishly stuffed plot with a bravura climactic twist — facilitated by a dead woman, no less. Alice Hoffman’s compelling tale of the artist Camille Pissarro and his mother 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z LaBeouf’s “drawling evocation of his own father is a bravura incarnation of resentment,” Glenn Kenny wrote in his review for The Times. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Timmy Failure’ and ‘Mythic Quest’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z In the straightforwardly realistic “Sunlight,” however, what might have seemed bravura or inventive in another context simply feels silly or over the top. Books of The Times: Mark Helprin’s ‘In Sunlight and in Shadow’ 2012-10-05T05:17:21Z It’s unfortunate that this time, while her pacing is swift, her prose, unfortunately, is often workmanlike, lacking the sheer bravura strangeness of the previous novel. Review | In her new novel, Rene Denfeld draws on her experience as a homeless teen 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z “The Town Hall Affair” uses technology combined with bravura performance to bridge the gap between the early seventies and the present. Norman Mailer’s Snarling Encounter with Feminism, Restaged in Trump’s America 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z And, like many contemporary artists, he was a master showman, enticing potential customers with bravura performances. Riding the crest 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Such power as the play still musters devolves by default to Mr. Mays, who sublimates his own bravura tendencies to deliver an indelibly moving performance at gratifying odds with the manic flourishes on view elsewhere. Harold Pinter and Tracy Letts Revivals, and ISIS on Stage in London 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z There were hints of folkloric color in the fifth partita, and there was a lot of bravura playing in the sixth, which was the longest and formed an emphatic finale. A lyrical blend of new and old in Hilary Hahn and Robert Levin’s performance 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z It doesn't, thanks to Don pulling off a piece of bravura office theatre in front of aspirin manufacturer St Joseph's. Mad Men recap: season six, episode 12 – The Quality of Mercy 2013-06-19T22:00:00Z Most of these recordings maintain considerable value for anyone who wants to hear bravura playing. Rethinking Itzhak Perlman on the eve of his 70th birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z But it's Thompson as the heroically unbiddable Travers who makes the most of it; her bravura performance effectively dominates the film. Saving Mr Banks: the critics' view 2013-10-21T10:26:27Z In many ways, the book's highwater mark emerges in the author's section devoted to the Beatles' bravura visit to New York City in February 1964. Paul McCartney’s photo collection, "1964: Eyes of the Storm," captures Beatlemania on the rise 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Looking back now at the romantic bravura of Piano & Rogers' Pompidou Centre or the consummate control of Foster's Stansted Airport, it must be said that Stirling now looks much the smallest of the three. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z McCarthy’s novel was turned into an indelible film by the Coen Brothers, but get past that: The book, a piece of bravura storytelling, is well worth revisiting. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z In the square, men in pale-blue dinner jackets, extravagantly frilled shirts and bravura sideburns stroll in the July sun, talking on their mobile phones. Ricky Gervais's ballad of Reading jail 2010-04-08T21:00:00Z For the kind of work she does, she adds, "it's less about the bravura of something, and more about what follows what, contextually." Expect props, leaps when dancer/choreographer Molissa Fenley goes solo 2010-12-09T20:42:00Z More than that, she fashioned a rounded, affecting portrayal of the Ethiopian princess, transcending the array of bravura gestures that have characterized much of her past work. A Hell-Raising Mezzo-Soprano Cuts Through a Dreary First Week at the Metropolitan Opera 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Playwright Robert Schenkkan, incidentally, won a Tony Award last year for “All the Way,” and Bryan Cranston was likewise acknowledged for his bravura turn in it as the nation’s 37th president. Scalia and his audience 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z And I marveled anew at how the divided nature of a nation, and a family, is summoned so exuberantly in a bravura sequence of dances around a dinner table. Review: ‘The Ferryman’ Is a Tale That Keeps on Giving 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z With its nods to the likes of the French New Wave, its bravura camerawork and fleet, assured editing, “Tramps” is a lively, high-spirited crowd-pleaser. Fewer indie films are opening in theaters. And filmmakers are fine with that. 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Under Lynne Parker’s direction, Mr. Lovett fills this hour with bravura touches, which help make up for the play’s occasional deficiencies. Spare Times for Children for June 7-13 2013-06-06T22:33:23Z The meter is so tricky and incongruous that it becomes this sly, bravura book’s main witticism. Books of The Times: David Rakoff’s ‘Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish’ 2013-07-24T21:06:59Z They avoided monumentality, however, as well as bravura brushwork and all notions of finish, masterly personality or evolutionary development. Raoul De Keyser, Belgian Abstract Painter, Dies at 82 2012-10-17T07:00:04Z After inviting six other white women to join her in discussions about racial privilege, Fraser turned transcripts of the conversations into a bravura performance in which she plays all seven women. Art Gallery Shows to See in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Mr. McKenzie’s narrator is in competition, in a way, with such bravura visual displays. Review: The Lists We Live by in Daniel Fish’s ‘White Noise’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Richard Strauss’s violin sonata, adapted for flute, tested the other end of Ueno’s range, with plenty of bravura forte sound and beautifully placed high notes. Flutist Seiya Ueno’s local debut performance sells itself 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The music is serious — Melynda Burdette’s Mary has a bravura aria to scale in the second act — and the show likes her. Review | First ladies on the edge in two plays and a musical 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z The dancer known as Primo switches with uncommon facility between vernacular steps and bravura ballet moves. A Showcase for Up-and-Comers, With Some Vogueing (and Shade Thrown) 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z As a London gangster in "The Long Good Friday," he moved from bravura bluster to tragic understatement. 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' actor Hoskins dies at 71 2014-05-01T11:01:43Z But Ali was lackluster on opening night, following a bravura performance in the final preview. Zev Buffman, Prolific Theatrical Producer, Is Dead at 89 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The ballerina role remains one of the peaks of allegro bravura. Balanchine’s ‘Square Dance’ Speaks Ballet With an American Accent 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z This restraint has stood him in good stead ever since as the youthful bravura of some of his better-known contemporaries has congealed into somethingempty and cliched. Gary Hume: 'I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist' 2013-05-18T21:00:01Z The simple frontal pose and unadorned garb are about as Classical as Rembrandt gets; much of the surface exudes the painterly bravura of loose — or what the Dutch called rough — painting. Art Review: ?Rembrandt at Work? at Metropolitan Museum 2012-04-05T22:11:33Z “Winter Warning” brings a bravura series to a fitting end. Just what America needs: A former New York City cop in the Oval Office 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z This prologue is such a bravura display of Mr. DeLillo’s literary powers, odds are the reader will be propelled through the rest of this dazzling and prescient novel. A Prescient Novel Retains Its Power 2011-07-14T22:46:28Z Two weeks ago, Affleck admitted the entire thing was staged; a bravura piece of performance art. Can 'fake' documentaries still tell the truth? 2010-09-30T22:00:00Z Then he played a spellbinding bravura number in which I gave up all hope of ever discerning a rhythmic pattern. Sattriya, Kathak and Bharatanatyam Dance at Drive East 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Though it was virtuoso, it also avoided any big bravura effects — no showy foot-trills, no sustained accelerations or decelerations while maintaining a single figure. Review: Gypsy Flamenco With Play and Passion, Not Flash 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Bohemian Rhapsody – the story of Freddie Mercury and Queen – is a surprise entry: thoroughly enjoyable but very much all about Rami Malek’s bravura performance. Golden Globes 2019: who will win – and who should win – the film categories 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z It also wins an audience’s affection for wearing its heart so tenderly on the billowing sleeves of so many bravura characters. Review | ‘Into the Woods’ is one of Sondheim’s most popular musicals. A delightful revival at Ford’s Theatre reminds you why. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Paradox three: My favorite picture of the year is no one's idea of "bravura." Michael Phillips picks the year's 10 best movies 2010-12-15T22:06:00Z The novel's ending is both bravura and brave: it closes like a diminished seventh chord, an awful pause that could resolve itself into different cadences. The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner – review 2012-06-01T07:00:03Z Sam is the least showy of the three bravura roles. Theater lovers will get hooked on the marvelous moviehouse play ‘The Flick’ 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Finally, the whole city seems to crescendo in shell-shocking sounds that had many players in the orchestra reaching for their earplugs while producing a bravura performance. Salonen's 'Pollux' supplies some grunge for L.A. Phil tour 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z Angel Corella is Latin, full of fire and bravura, a dancer whose technical feats and intense presence can make audiences leap to their feet with delight. Dance: Angel Corella and Ethan Stiefel Move on From Ballet Theater 2012-06-29T19:55:43Z The prevalence of earth and gravy tones evokes an old-masterish palette, while the brushwork parodies Baroque bravura. Art in Review: PIETER SCHOOLWERTH: ?Portraits of Paintings? 2010-12-16T23:41:37Z Old favorites like “Breathe” and “This Kiss,” for instance, were bravura showcases for a voice that at Hill’s 50 years, sounds as though it hasn’t aged a bit. Review | Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have a whole lot to say and sing 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Both are physical responses to sound, full of gesture and bravura. Review: At Ailey, Love Is a Battlefield, Film Noir Style 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z And over the course of a four-decade career, Spike Lee has developed a bold, bravura, urgently personal visual language and voice that are insistently compelling, even when they go wildly over the top. Perspective | In praise of the messy, misunderstood masterpiece (and in search of the next one) 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Streep hardly abandoned drama, or the bravura explorations of challenging accents and hairstyles. Film: That Unmistakable Streepness 2010-02-20T04:19:00Z In one bravura set piece, the guests at a sterile business hotel are forced to brace their legs against the wall as the whole building lists lazily to one side. Film review: Inception 2010-07-09T23:17:00Z And though her jump is the most astonishing weapon in her armory, there’s no feature of the bravura choreography in which she doesn’t shine. Dance Review: Natalia Osipova Takes Don Quixote Airborne 2010-06-04T22:24:00Z Which brings us to the bravura release of "The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts," which collects, for the first time, Springsteen and the E Street Band's high-octane set in support of a non-nuclear future. Springsteen's "Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts" has the best live version of "The Promised Land" 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Although Mr. Hallberg is only 36, he’s somehow managed to evoke all this — and the cacophonous soundtrack that played in those years — with bravura swagger and style and heart. Review: ‘City on Fire,’ Garth Risk Hallberg’s Novel of New York in the Bad Old Days 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z "This new opera is provocative in its themes, exciting in its bravura style and thrilling with its sheer contemporary nerve," it added in language normally reserved for reality TV. Anna Nicole Smith to crash genteel world of opera 2011-02-15T12:23:12Z Take, for instance, the bravura poem “38,” a riff on the 38 Dakota men hanged in December 1862, just days before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Why you should be reading poet Layli Long Soldier 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Much of Thursday's opening night lived up to Neiman's bravura performance of the first five etudes. World-class musicianship on display at Chamber Music Society Winter Festival 2011-01-28T19:29:03Z If you thought Westworld’s bravura first season brought this latest man-versus-the-machines saga to a satisfying conclusion, remember that was just “one eighth” of the planned dystopian opus. Roman, Samurai or sci-fi: which realms should Westworld season two explore? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Even after the bravura finish of “Rebonds” there was only polite applause. Europe’s ‘Rising Star’ Musicians Give as Much as They Get 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z The Iceberg is clad in luminous white panels of fiber-reinforced concrete, while the Verrière is held aloft by a network of steel trusses and wood beams in a bravura feat of architectural acrobatics. Frank Gehry's Masterful Fondation Louis Vuitton Debuts in Paris 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Its hallmarks are radioactive colors, corrupted sterile and spiritual imagery, and sheer painterly bravura. Art in Review: SHANNA WADDELL 2011-03-10T21:45:03Z Its chief delight is a bravura performance by Rylance, one of the most compelling stage actors on either side of the Atlantic. Rylance shines in Broadway-bound comedy 'La Bete' 2010-07-08T13:16:00Z Bieber's broadcast home videos make it clear he was a born show-off; Perry is a born entertainer, gabbing lucidly all the way through a bravura two-hour performance. Justin Bieber and Katy Perry live 2011-03-20T00:05:30Z When it was originally released, the LP offered a bravura showcase of the band's inimitable talents. In the Who's massive and majestic "Who's Next" box set, Pete Townshend's full vision finally emerges 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z Until the last decade of his life, when he started working larger, his compressed, bravura objects rarely measured more than 10 or 20 inches on a side. Ken Price, Sculptor Who Helped Elevate Ceramics, Dies at 77 2012-02-25T02:28:11Z He had begun to circulate as a sideman, working with artists like Ian Hunter, whose solo album “All American Alien Boy” features a bravura 16-bar bass solo on its title track. ‘Jaco,’ a Documentary About the Jazz Musician Jaco Pastorius 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Part of a planned series meant to evoke commedia dell’arte characters, Ms. Kirsten’s piece drew from Mr. Munro a bravura show of hissing, gibbering, urgent recitation and lines sung at high and low extremes. Music Review: Eighth Blackbird at Miller Theater - Review 2011-10-17T22:12:58Z At the race scene, for example, we see horses’ hoofs thundering in a close-up, while beneath we see men hurtling across the stage in various bravura steps that, in context, suggest feats of riding. Dance Review: Illicit Love and All Its Consequences 2011-07-12T22:55:57Z This is not measured, careful prose, it is bold, messy bravura; tightrope-writing. Where did the decadent novel go? 2010-09-29T08:30:00Z This time round, the chances of serious injury in any given show seemed greatly reduced, but Hoyle's biting satire, bravura costumes, wicked comic timing and compelling charisma remained intact. David Hoyle: divine director 2010-03-24T15:39:00Z Alas, one does not get the bravura set pieces of Hell in a Handbag's best work, and much here is overplayed. 'Trogg!' digs up something enthusiastically terrible 2011-05-31T21:37:41Z Tiler Peck and Mr. De Luz danced the bravura coda of the “Stars and Stripes” pas de deux. Dance Review: Demonstrating How a Special Choreographer Made Men Special 2011-08-04T21:32:04Z “It demands a sort of bravura visual approach because that enhances the story.” In ‘KIMI,’ Soderbergh, Kravitz build a classic tech thriller 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Each girl meets an end appropriate to her character: a tubby girl is assaulted by a flying watermelon; the musically gifted Melody is devoured, in the film’s most bravura sequence, by a bloodthirsty piano. DVDs: The Devil Inside and the Demon in Disguise 2010-10-23T05:00:00Z The wait appears to have been worth it, with critic stating: "This is a bravura performance that elevates Morahan to the front rank of British actors." The power of Ibsen's women 2012-07-11T00:49:26Z It is a bravura piece of staging, superbly acted in every way except the way you were actually anticipating. Marriott Theatre's '42nd Street' ★★★½ 2011-04-12T21:22:08Z His are not only a bravura technical challenge; they are also a loving, wry tribute to the genre of variations itself. Marc-André Hamelin Performs Variations on Paganini 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Minnie is an over-the-top, bravura role, a frontier woman of independence, strength and tenderness in a community of foul-mouthed roughnecks. Puccini's `La Fanciulla del West' turns 100 2010-12-11T15:39:00Z Graves adds a desperately needed dash of bravura in an otherwise rather hectically staged “I Am Easily Assimilated.” Review | Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan in ‘Candide’? I had to go to Philadelphia to catch this. 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z The season avoids the standard ballet clichés of familiar stories and displays of conventionally bravura technique. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Returns to City Center - Review 2011-11-09T22:54:34Z Having displayed his technical bravura in the first two-thirds of the show, Mr. Weinstein retreated with the Gershwin songs into a simpler, more emotionally expressive mode. Music Review: Making Standards Swing, With a Wink for Jack Benny 2011-04-22T22:56:03Z Yet it was a bravura performance in search of a drama. Rewind TV: Upstairs Downstairs; When Harvey Met Bob; Michael Jackson's Secret Hollywood; Toast 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z She is a magical actor, full of “biological bravura.” ‘Maggie Smith’ review: The person behind the ‘Downton Abbey’ star 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z By contrast, the “Don Quixote” pas de deux was presented for full-out bravura. National Ballet of Cuba: National Ballet of Cuba, in London in ?La Magia? 2010-04-07T23:26:00Z But the sustained male solo, performed by Reed Tankersley, that accompanies the first book is a breathtaking outpouring of dance wit and poetic bravura. Review: ‘Twyla Tharp and Three Dances’ Lends a Look of Sensuous Improvisation 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z And Sherie Rene Scott, a popular actress with theater producers and artists, is giving her own bravura performance in “Everyday Rapture.” Predicting Winners of the Tony Awards 2010-06-10T23:18:00Z "Don Quixote" fills a certain niche, and if you admire this warhorse, it's most likely for the bravura dancing and comic relief. Los Angeles Ballet's 'Don Quixote' has stand-out dancers but is burdened by questionable staging 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z After the premiere, they took no bows in front of the curtain, unlike Ms. Mearns, Mr. Ramasar and the other men who led the outer movement’s bravura. Justin Peck’s ‘Rodeo’ at New York City Ballet 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The director tells Jason about why he chose to set it in the powerhouse city of western China and how he arrived at his bravura opening shot. Film Weekly: Cannes special 2010-05-21T09:50:00Z Despite Enron's relevance, its intelligence, and its technical bravura, about half the Broadway critics found it either too obvious or too contrived. Why doesn't Broadway love Enron? 2010-04-29T11:33:00Z “As played with unfaltering bravura and wit by Robert Morse, he is a rumpled, dimpled angel with a streak of Lucifer.” Robert Morse, two-time Tony-winning actor, dies at 90 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Ophüls conjures a kaleidoscopic tumble of grand emotion, as in a bravura nocturnal sequence that leaps from breathtakingly confessional tenderness to rowdily abstracted gaiety to desperately melodramatic anguish. What to Stream This Weekend: “The Bartered Bride,” A Brilliant, Rarely Seen Max Ophüls Opera-Based Musical 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z From the very first destabilizing moments of this movie, Park dazzles you with the beauty of his images and the intoxicating bravura of his unfettered imagination. ‘Decision to Leave’ Review: A Labyrinth of Desire 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Ms. Streep, the most Oscar-nominated actor of all time, gave another bravura performance, as Margaret Thatcher. The Carpetbagger?s 2012 Oscar Predictions 2012-02-24T00:38:40Z Teresa Reichlen — her torso’s outline especially complemented by Ms. Taylor’s costume — bursts forth from a supported pirouette into a bravura solo. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Opens Season With Gala 2014-05-09T23:25:13Z It was a bravura performance that sent the G-Men on their way. Carl Reiner: farewell to a heavyweight master of American comedy 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z This work mostly holds its bravura moments in abeyance until the finale, and Mr. Brey rose to them admirably. Review: New York Philharmonic Presents a World Premiere 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Then, rather than give Don one last bravura speech – one last Carousel – something strange happened. Mad Men recap: season seven, episode 14 – Person to Person (warning: spoilers) 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z As bravura pianism, the performance was brilliant and told much, though it gave little idea how Mr. Zhou might fare in more lyrical or Romantic fare. Review: Young Concert Artists Gala Offers Stars in the Making 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The 1992 film version featured a bravura monologue of sinister masculinity from Alec Baldwin, who won an Emmy this year for his menacing Trump impersonation. 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revival examines the dark side of cutting deals 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z At times like these, Drake sometimes seems to be trying too hard to compensate for his lack of gangsta credentials with bravura displays of priapic overconfidence. Streets takeover: Charting Drake's progress 2011-02-07T12:37:43Z Marking the former Beatle’s bravura return to the American stage, the triple LP memorialized Wings’ 31 North American concerts in 1976. Four new Paul McCartney reissues prove he's a master of the live show 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Cox makes bravura use of long takes and real time — most remarkably in the six-minute shot in which a wounded Pedro staggers off the road and into the desert to find his dying comrade. ‘Highway Patrolman’ Bends the Thin Blue Line 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z They introduce a new bravura yet evoke the more methodical early abstractions. Philip Guston’s About-Face, in a Bracing Show at Hauser & Wirth 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z “Roma,” for example, is just the kind of personal, visually bravura art film that Oscars have favored in recent years. Perspective | An existential question animates this year’s Oscar race: What, exactly, is a movie? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Picking up almost where last year's Coco Before Chanel left off, the film opens with a bravura recreation of Stravinsky's notorious premiere of The Rite of Spring in Paris in 1913. Film review: Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky 2010-08-05T21:03:00Z One of the greatest 20th century ballerinas, Alonso used her star power to make a sometimes elitist art form popular on her Caribbean island, forging the world’s largest ballet school with a unique bravura style. Alicia Alonso, Cuba's ballet legend, dies at age 98 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z There are several bravura passages, like one breathless five-page chapter early on that consists of a single sentence in which Amalfitano tells the story of his life. Books of The Times: ‘Woes of the True Policeman,’ by Roberto Bolaño 2012-12-19T22:05:59Z But in this bravura Russian nonsense, it’s Actaeon who wears only a loincloth, and the two carry on like hunters in love. Vail International Dance Festival in Colorado 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z I saw Ian first in 1964 playing Henry V and Richard III and was entirely capsized by his energy, his bravura skills and his wit. 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z The actors complement each other perfectly rather than provide a contest and Boyle's production is a bravura triumph in which Mark Tildesley's design provides a whole series of visual coups. Frankenstein - review 2011-02-24T00:46:25Z His extended passages of instrumental bravura clearly had an enthusiastic audience on the edge of its seats. At Seattle Baroque Orchestra, virtuosity of a collegial kind 2014-01-19T18:23:06Z Tartini’s “Devil’s Trill” Sonata, replete with supposedly diabolical technical challenges that seemed child’s play for Bell, really amounts to dazzling bravura and not a great deal more. Lightness and sparkle in Joshua Bell recital 2014-02-06T18:54:54Z As directed by Gordon Edelstein, Mr. Thompson offers dazzling arias, at one point toggling between Armstrong and Glaser in a bravura pyrotechnical display. Theater Review: Louis Armstrong Reminisces in ‘Satchmo at the Waldorf’ 2014-03-21T00:30:14Z It’s a little as if a painter of messy, wildly improvisational and innovative canvases had suddenly taken up a meticulous historically savvy representational style that places an uncharacteristic emphasis on craft and bravura technique. Art in Review: JOHN BOCK: ?In the Shadow of the Maggot? 2011-08-04T22:00:07Z That’s a worthy goal, and one that lends itself to a bravura final sequence of various routines executed with aplomb. This Is the Biggest Change in Magic Mike XXL From the Original 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z “In Our Time,” Victor Gould’s latest album with his trio, is a parade of pianistic bravura and muscle-building rhythmic teamwork. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z But this was a brave, impetuous, enthusiastic, splendidly colorful rendition — classicism variously colored by Romanticism and flamboyant bravura, just like Tchaikovsky’s music. Sugarplum Fairies and Cavaliers Move Ahead at City Ballet 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Weird vignette follows bravura passage follows profound musing, in what amounts not so much to a novel as a sheer outpouring of writing, an overflow of history, fantasy and fiction. Gob's Grief by Chris Adrian – review 2013-01-31T08:01:01Z He performed his own cadenzas, in classical style, appropriately bravura but never overdone. Momentous Mahler, sprightly Mozart at Seattle Symphony 2012-04-06T16:51:04Z In a bravura display of dramatic pyrotechnics the British actor Dominic Cooper plays both men in the film. Stepping Into the Shoes of a Psychopath 2011-07-22T13:00:00Z The famous Japanese violinist Nejiko Suwa plays for us a concert by Grieg and some smaller bravura pieces, with a superb technique and a brilliant display of art. Nejiko Suwa and Joseph Goebbels’s Gift 2012-09-21T17:36:28Z Ms. Scott Thomas’s bravura show does provide moments of arresting originality. ‘Electra’ Stars Kristin Scott Thomas at the Old Vic Theater 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Every episode of this bravura season — except maybe the last one — contained a deliriously over-the-top moment to complement all the carefully observed character work. 2012′s best — so far 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z These quick recalibrations—from contemporary realism to suspense to epic—convey bravura, a giddy sense of possibility, a love of story. In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z At their most ecstatic, they take the form of two bravura solos, Amalia’s “Vanilla Ice Cream” and the title song, performed by Mr. Levi with a spontaneous, incredulous triumph that makes it all his own. Review: ‘She Loves Me’ Is a Daydream of the Ordinary 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The characters, the commitment to change in a medium that usually avoids it like the plague, all the narrative bravura; Breaking Bad has the lot. 'S’all good, man': How Better Call Saul became superior to Breaking Bad 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z In a bravura sequence heavily reminiscent of "The Godfather" and "Goodfellas," Scorsese intercuts Jimmy and Al's hijacking with Van Alden's men approaching an initially unseen target, actions that turn out to be parallel but unrelated. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Prohibition begins 2010-09-20T12:53:00Z Chase’s bravura skills, which can look facile in oil paint, are less ingratiating in dry mediums like charcoal and conté crayon. Art Review: ‘Fine Lines,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2013-04-18T21:31:41Z The inadvertent humanism of the bowling piece occasionally reasserts itself, albeit in routine feats of bravura editing. Art Review: A Muse in the Machine: Click. Create. 2011-05-26T14:55:57Z As her partner, Andrew Veyette delivers his bravura with far more blaze. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at Koch Theater 2013-01-18T23:37:16Z Washington theater doesn’t see a lot of solo turns with the bravura force that Pat Kinevane brings to his Olivier Award-winning “Silent.” Review | Irish actor Pat Kinevane offers a solo tour de force with his award-winning ‘Silent’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z But Argento also brought to the screen a “kind of bravura visual style” that went on to influence other filmmakers and to establish him as a cult director with die-hard fans, Hunter added. A Quiet Word With Italy’s Master of Horror 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z The subject of “Letter from an Unknown Woman” is the essence of character as it can be discerned from appearances, and Ophüls’s bravura camerawork and decorative sense conjure an exquisitely calibrated romanticism. Movie of the Week: “Letter from an Unknown Woman” 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z And Conflict Kitchen, the takeout restaurant near the University of Pittsburgh’s campus where Sayre is culinary director, is Exhibit A of that kind of bravura. The little Burgh that’s catching food critics by surprise 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Even more bravura is his self-presentation as “the chief who sold Africa to the colonists.” Within Himself, an African Photographer Finds Multitudes 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Exposition is minimal, and there’s nothing to puzzle out; the story unfolds as a series of accepted realities followed by whirlwind displays of bravura dancing. The Washington Ballet let Brooklyn Mack go. He landed at the Metropolitan Opera House. 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z The book is a bravura feat of writing. Summer voyages: The Hounds of the Morrigan 2013-07-23T09:13:47Z This bravura performance from Raf Simons raised the vivid color and volume of last season to mesmerizing heights. Special Report: Fashion: Surface Attraction 2011-02-27T17:05:09Z This decision seems an acknowledgement that it is time to end her venture into bravura bel canto. Ren?e Fleming With the Met and Chicago?s Lyric Opera Company 2012-01-27T19:30:47Z The movie opens with a bravura sequence set in Pakistan, and the script, by Mr. Bourque and Paul A. Birkett, worthily strives to balance sympathies between American interests and humans written off as collateral damage. Review: In ‘Drone,’ Confronting Sins and a Vengeful Visitor 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z This is a bravura performance that elevates Morahan to the front rank of British actors. A Doll's House – review 2012-07-10T11:07:19Z A bravura, multilayered lead performance by Annapurna Sriram anchors “Feral,” an intense drama about a young homeless woman’s struggles as a harsh winter begins to bear down on Brooklyn. ‘Feral’ Review: Homeless and Unraveling as a Storm Approaches 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z If anything, it was Ms. Davies’s ear for orchestral sound, alongside the technical bravura of her choral writing, that commended the score — and compensated for a disappointingly dull lyricism in the solo voices. Review: ‘Between Worlds,’ With English National Opera, Addresses 9/11 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z He added, “ We talked and moved in the direction of a simpler tale, one of narcissism, of bravura, and, at least from Clyde’s point of view, of sexual timidity.” Arthur Penn, Director of ?Bonnie and Clyde,? Is Dead 2010-09-29T14:59:00Z As the latest installment in the band's deluxe series of box sets, the Beatles' "Revolver" is a revelation for the ears, a bravura experience befitting an album that will eclipse the ages. The Beatles' remixed "Revolver" is a revelation, adding even more rich sonic detail for the ears 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Taylor displayed breathtaking technique in the vigorous rhythms of "The Banjo," one of Gottschalk's bravura pieces whose inventive use of the piano's upper register reportedly thrilled Victorian America. Jacaranda unleashes a tribute to composer John Adams that goes a little bit 'Berserk' 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z The Tex-Mex badlands, a corner of the world that looked fairly dystopian even before the mutant apocalypse, were a natural setting for this bravura blend of superhero movie, western and noir. From Blade Runner 2049 to It: Week in geek's top science fiction and fantasy films of 2017 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Cinema is a medium of moving images, of carefully framed compositions and dynamic, bravura gestures. At the National Portrait Gallery, Marlene Dietrich exerts a seductive, enigmatic pull 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z It is possible to be dazzled by the bravura authority of her writing without remotely agreeing with her, and this biography fully captures such contradictions. Books of The Times: ?Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark? and ?Lucking Out? - Review 2011-10-26T22:07:52Z It’s a deranged take on youthful bravura stoked by alcohol and anarchy, and a way-more telling, artful vision than this week’s other entry in post-teen misbehavior, American Reunion. American Reunion: Is There Sex After High School? Hell, Yeah 2012-04-05T15:42:20Z The 1992 film version featured a bravura monologue of sinister masculinity from Alec Baldwin, who won an Emmy this year for his menacing Trump impersonation. 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revival examines the dark side of cutting deals 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Here as in the later movements of the concerto, though still in bravura mode, he showed greater sensitivity, taste and imagination. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev and Daniil Trifonov - Review 2011-10-13T20:20:50Z Aside from a few bravura scenes here and there, this self-conscious, tricked-up volume consists largely of gruesome anecdotes — which feel contrived for maximum gross-out value — desultorily strung together like ugly beads on a filthy string. Book Of The Times: Book Review: ‘Dead Stars,’ by Bruce Wagner 2012-08-10T06:30:09Z It was another exciting, bravura hour of telly. Game of Thrones: the best show on TV just became the silliest 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Partly, it’s that he has lost interest in sustaining the act, in always being “on,” to the degree so expertly practiced by his wife, whom Ms. Carroll calibrates with bravura skill. Review: A British and an American Revival Intoxicate, for Different Reasons 2010-06-15T14:53:00Z One bravura sequence opens with the photograph of a young woman walking in what appears to be an alley. An Exhilarating Work of History About Daring Adventures in Love 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z So, I might add, does the exteriority of Mr. Rush’s bravura performance. | 'Diary of a Madman': Send in the Russian Clown and His Pain and Alienation, Too 2011-02-18T00:36:24Z Denk’s fingers were clean and precise in the running notes of the early variations and even more bravura in the less legato movements, where he was lighter on the sustaining pedal. In Jeremy Denk’s Kennedy Center recital, the music has the most meaning when he talks about it 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z James Hannaham has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for “Delicious Foods,” his bravura novel about racism and labor abuse. James Hannaham wins $15,000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Is it the bravura of the tailored jackets, big-shouldered and so white they almost glow in the gloom? Why mariachi music matters in the age of Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Barton pulled bravura from each dancer without drawing attention to herself or her cleverness. Malpaso Dance brings its breezy, charming surprises from Cuba 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z In the bravura action sequence, Keanu Reeves’s immensely talented assassin has to defeat a gantlet of enemies to reach the top of the staircase. A John Wick Action Scene, Step by Step 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Painted with impetuous bravura on a seven-and-a-half-foot-wide canvas, it exudes a stirring romance while lodging a feminist protest against Christian patriarchy. Art In Review: ‘BEASTS OF REVELATION’ 2012-07-19T21:37:37Z Next week comes the comic, swashbuckling story ballet “Le Corsaire,” which gives male dancers in the company a chance to show off some bravura. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z You might readily assume that these paintings are exceptional instances of bravura design and naturalistic vision. Art Review: Refined Restraint in ‘Treasures from Korea,’ in Philadelphia 2014-03-20T12:00:02Z And though some of Balanchine’s individual steps recalled the old Bolshoi divertissement, he connected them with a dazzlingly rococo bravura previously unknown anywhere. City Ballet Presents a Lyrical Program in Saratoga 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The stories — coincidentally? prophetically? — pointedly dovetail with the political conditions of the America of today, in part through the character of Roy Cohn, played with bravura wit and bile by Lane. Review | Forget ‘important.’ ‘Angels in America’ is brilliantly entertaining. 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z He has been so single-minded in his pursuit of upbeat Broadway bravura that one would scarcely be surprised to learn that he had choreographed his own birth. Possessed: Graffito in Jerry Mitchell’s Bedroom Is a Daily Reminder 2013-05-24T21:27:34Z More often the tone is one of gung-ho collegiate bravura, with everybody performing at high energy and high volume. Theater Review: ‘Master and Margarita’ Is Staged at Bard College 2013-07-19T19:48:20Z The part is made for an actor of bravura inclinations; Shakespeare piled on the pressure for Hal when he created this adversary of pure passion. Review | The Folger turns one of Shakespeare’s histories into a problem play 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The crowd pleaser was Mr. Vasiliev’s appearance in Patrick De Bana’s “Labyrinth of Solitude,” a soapy solo embellished with bravura jumps. Dance Review: David Hallberg in ?Kings of Dance: Opus 3? at City Center 2012-02-26T21:12:37Z As the bird slowly died, Joe energetically paced around it with a white-knuckled grip on the gun stock, and spoke about his shot as if it were a triumph, with a puffed-up, exaggerated bravura. “The pigs were glowing deep gold”: The amazing experience that ended my life as a pig farmer 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z He played with virtuoso panache in the many bravura passages and with an elegant touch in more introverted moments. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Tchaikovsky at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-07-08T20:24:36Z Reviewing the play for The New York Times, Ben Brantley praised it as “a bravura exercise in torturously applied pressure,” adding that it “feels as pertinent to our time as it did to its own.” Stage Version of ‘Network,’ Starring Bryan Cranston, Sets Broadway Opening 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z This masterpiece is dance without climax, without bravura, without speed. Frederick Ashton’s Masterly Pas de Trois 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s a bravura ending that both lays some questions to rest and exhumes even more freshly disturbing images to trouble a reader’s peace of mind. In ‘Hard Light,’ a heroine who’s an edgier (and older) version of Lisbeth Salander 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Choreographed by Kent Stowell for the company in 1994, the ballet is more about eye candy — of a very high order, to be sure — than bravura performance. PNB's 'Cinderella' is all about eye candy 2011-02-07T20:39:04Z Given the powerful importance of her subject matter, and the bravura with which she treats it, there should be conversation aplenty. Lebanese-Syrian roots run deep in Mary Ann Peters' latest show 2012-10-18T20:19:12Z Maybe all those make-believe rivals on the other end of Drakeo’s bravura taunts were the ones who were supposed to be feeling butterflies. Perspective | Drakeo the Ruler wanted us to listen close. His death brings a disorienting silence. 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z The company bills the show as "provocative in its themes, exciting in its bravura style and thrilling with its sheer contemporary nerve." Anna Nicole Smith subject of provocative new opera 2011-02-16T17:19:10Z “It’s a fantastically bravura piece of art in an intellectual space,” where the artist was “thinking about how to represent some aspects” of a ritual that is not completely understood. Undoing the Ruins Once Wrought by Vesuvius 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Chase was certainly a master artist, and there is some stunning, bravura work among the more than 75 paintings and pastels gathered in this retrospective. William Merritt Chase, modernist in moderation 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z The Piano Sonata No. 4 is equally tense, its dark undercurrents illuminated here with riveting intensity and the bravura finale dazzling for its energy and clarity. Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Prokofiev at Carnegie, Channeling Rage and Grief 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Gareth Edwards’ bravura prequel built an entire movie out of our incredulity that Skywalker could blow up the first Death Star virtually single-handed. From Rey's dark side to Snoke's identity – the questions Star Wars: The Last Jedi must answer 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z He’s learning how much other bravura he can handle; he’s also still developing as a partner. Critic’s Notebook: Three Men Leap Forward at City Ballet 2014-02-11T22:31:39Z Unlike his compatriot Mr. Richter, who pursues every opening for painting only to demonstrate with bravura that each is a dead end, Mr. Tillmans exults in photography’s limitless avenues. Wolfgang Tillmans Takes Pictures of Modern Life, Backlit by the Past 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z For all Beatty’s bravura in incarnating Hughes’s volatile moods and outsized energies, the performance is one in which the actor hides rather than reveals himself. Warren Beatty’s Self-Sparing Embodiment of Howard Hughes 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z It’s a showcase of bravura technique that must be lit from within by opera-scale personality and sass. Review | As Cuba enters the post-Castro era, its ballet company seems stuck in the past 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z He brought verbal brio and his own capacious intelligence to a bravura National Theater revival of “Man and Superman” from the director Simon Godwin. Review: A Year of Greek Revivals on the London Stage 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Rosa is famous for setting modest religious scenes into big, dramatic landscapes, but the settings often overwhelm the narrative, crushing it in bravura displays of artistic showmanship. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z In the brighter, faster second section, a delectably counterpointed, folk- dance-inflected duo for the men and a bravura finish for all four provide a surprising, but somehow inevitable conclusion. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Souvenir d?un Lieu Cher? 2012-03-05T23:31:27Z When Ben Brantley saw the production in London last fall, he called it a “a bravura exercise in torturously applied pressure.” 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Lang was his spectacular self, producing controlled thunder in bravura moments, melting lyricism in contrast and everything between. Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Rachmaninoff and Work by a Mahler Proxy 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z “She treated the bravura of this busily intricate contrapuntal score with its volatile Hungarian rhythms as something she eats for breakfast,” writes Times classical music critic Mark Swed. Essential Arts & Culture: L.A. Phil wraps up the season, Tony Awards coming up, reconsidering Frank Lloyd Wright 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Linked in spirit to Aravena’s interest in unpretentious as opposed to preening beauty, it begins by asking if “bravura” architectural effects are still possible in cities struggling since 2008 with austerity and scarcity. A grassroots, handmade Venice Architecture Biennale from Alejandro Aravena 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z He won over the 17-member jury with his rare combination of technical bravura, artistic maturity and freshness of insight across the range of Chopin’s piano writing. Winning a renowned piano competition put Seong-Jin Cho on road to stardom 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Besides forging sentences like hammer blows, Strachey could also orchestrate longer, bravura passages, such as this one from the opening pages of “Cardinal Manning” Review | The biography that changed biography forever 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z It's a bravura performance worthy of Woolf or Joyce, all business all the time. Unfinished Business 2011-03-31T11:15:00Z Ben Fountain: 'The unintended consequence of his bravura performance is to reduce the experience to words and style.' Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain – review 2012-07-14T23:05:44Z Under guest conductor Antony Walker’s baton, the 158-member chorus and 51-piece orchestra plumbed the depths of a liturgical work and highlighted an assortment of bel canto arias with bravura, gravitas and dynamism. Review | Choral Arts hits the mark with a serious Rossini 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z The audience responded lustily to every dancer and the many, many displays of bravura. Dance Review | Ballet Corella Castilla y Le?n: At City Center, ?ngel Corella and a Surfeit of Bravura 2010-03-18T22:40:00Z That bravura gesture marked a rare bit of genuine excitement on a night when there were few surprises and the tone was low-key to the point of lugubrious. Perspective | The 2021 Oscars, like the year they celebrated, were destined to be the most anticlimactic ever 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z It's a bravura set piece, and one of several vignettes that may have viewers wishing Paul Thomas Anderson had directed the film. Why, Damien Chazelle, why?!: "Babylon" is a busy, bawdy and bad orgy of Hollywood nothingness 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Brilliance is a good word for Friday’s Kitri, the principal ballerina Carla Körbes, who radiates a serene energy; here she was vibrant and strong, throwing herself into bravura steps without ever being rushed or tense. Dance Review: Ratmansky?s ?Don Quixote? Has Premiere in Seattle 2012-02-06T23:18:17Z In Venice, you often see Tintoretto surrounded by lesser figures, including artists such as Palma il Giovane, who clearly admired Tintoretto but never quite equaled his bravura. Perspective | Seeing Tintoretto in Venice is very nice. But so is seeing his works in a well-lit museum. 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Least familiar is “Entrance,” where the legs crowd toward a cloud of bravura brushwork that, outlined in red, serves as a door. After the Storm, Philip Guston for Real 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The opening scene of this convulsive, immersive adaptation of the 1976 movie about how television hijacked reality is a bravura exercise in torturously applied pressure. Review: ‘Network’ With Bryan Cranston Is Convulsive, Immersive and Still Mad as Hell 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Although he’s no longer the bravura tap dancer of his prime, when those long limbs spring into motion in the jaunty “Fascinating Rhythm,” he remains a wonder to watch. ‘Lady, Be Good!,’ an Encores! Version of the Gershwins’ 1924 Hit 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Stripped-down by Beyoncé’s standards, this was a tour de force of female empowerment, romantic contentment, sublime defiance and bravura kinesis — and of course vocal heroism of the highest order. Pop and Jazz Concert Highs of 2011 2011-12-28T23:32:40Z Forget Audubon: These are birds as displays of painterly bravura in which Craven engages – and happily overwhelms – the natural world. Ann Craven, across many moons 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z At its gala performance at City Center on Wednesday, its dancers showed plenty of charm, enthusiasm, style and bravura. At Dance Theater of Harlem, Where’s the ‘Theater’? 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z It's their journey that forms the book's bravura opening section. Colum McCann: a life in writing 2013-05-25T07:30:01Z There is a similar optical bravura in a display of 31 molas — meticulously layered appliqué panels, made since the early colonial period by the Kuna women, and occasionally men, of Panama. Art Review: ?Testimonios,? Popular Arts at El Museo del Barrio 2012-02-09T23:48:36Z She had a crush on one of the men, and in a show of bravura volunteered to write it. Drama! Music! Financial Shenanigans! 2010-02-20T05:21:00Z And sealing the deal on Earthquakes: I bet Goold's bravura environmental staging must be seen to be believed. My theatrical busman's holiday in London: what am I missing? 2010-08-16T08:35:00Z “A bracing tonic is offered by the breathtaking trilogy of bravura documentaries by Michael Glawogger that locates these issues emphatically center screen.” Michael Glawogger, Austrian Filmmaker, Is Dead at 54 2014-04-25T04:23:03Z It's a bravura, even foolhardy way to start a novel, but Smythe moves the story smartly past this self-imposed dead end, and the narrative winds its way through some brilliantly handled twists and revelations. The Explorer by James Smythe – review 2013-01-18T09:31:02Z Rushforth played it with bravura dexterity and a fine understanding of its inner logic. RLPO/Vasily Petrenko – review 2012-07-08T14:46:27Z The Russian authorities, giving him resources beyond those of other nations, expected him to fill the stage with spectacle, bravura display and vast numbers of dancers. The Ambiguous Sexism of Marius Petipa, Ballet’s Towering Master 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z It would happen through a bravura act of mathematics: the separation of some very large numbers, hundreds of digits long, into their prime factors. The Race to Save Our Secrets From the Computers of the Future 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Out of this emerge scenes full of natural wonder, deeply imagined and described in bravura prose, the novelistic equivalent of a big-screen final reel. ‘Swim Home to the Vanished’ finds a young man transformed by grief 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z This is a showcase for bravura acting, with Ireland playing Rose as aggressive and stilted in her inability to connect with others, or even present a normal social interaction. Review: Back in the horror laboratory, 'birth/rebirth' is alive (alive!) with female tensions 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z With the exception of “Dunkirk,” his bravura thriller about a pivotal early chapter of World War II, Nolan has largely steered clear of historical events and famous figures. Review: Christopher Nolan's gripping, despairing 'Oppenheimer' ponders history and the future 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z In recent weeks, element by giant element, it was hoisted by cranes onto the cathedral’s gusty rooftop, a bravura ballet performed 180 feet in the air. Notre Dame cathedral’s iconic spire fell in flames. Now it is set to rise again 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Graham is hilarious and heartbreaking as the ostensible antagonist, her outsize bravura punctured by a wrenching moment of true vulnerability. Review: 'Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret' is as lovely and amazing as the Judy Blume novel 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The film’s most bravura — and shockingly disturbing — sequence finds Beau at home in an unnamed city, where he lives in a squalid apartment in a sleazy, crime-infested red-light district. Review | ‘Beau Is Afraid’: Mom’s inhumanity to man 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z A bravura sequence finds Sharlet in Sacramento at a rally for Ashli Babbitt, the woman shot and killed by Capitol police on Jan. 6. Review | Exploring the crowds that gather for Trump — and dream of civil war 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z The Velázquez authority Jonathan Brown has pointed out qualities of “humor” and “bravura” in these portraits, as well as “remarkably perceptive observations about mental deficiency” and “a kind of smoldering defiance.” Perspective | When Velázquez painted marginalized people, it liberated his genius “The emotion, the bravura singing, the ability to strike every moment for the camera — there’s nobody else that could’ve done that.” Whitewashing or reclaiming? A new Whitney Houston biopic spotlights musical highs over personal lows 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z In the show’s late highlight, Danes breathes life into Rachel with a bravura performance. Page to Screen: The trouble with 'Fleishman' — the novel and now the series 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The bravura “Russian” dance — with its deep squats and high leaps — is based on a Ukrainian folk dance. Perspective | Cracking open ‘The Nutcracker’s’ dark Russian past 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z His depictions, from his final trip to Spain in 1912, of Roma dwellings, olive groves, fishermen on Majorca and farm courtyards, are bravura displays. Review | When John Singer Sargent went to Spain, it unleashed his best art 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z It was a bravura performance — in his enthusiasm, Camarena almost broke a nearby fence — but his voice would be gone if he didn’t improve his screams by opening night. From scare-actors to ofrenda artists, L.A.'s October’s spooky season is back in full force 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z As an ensemble, Dickinson, Dean and Harrelson commit to the bit with admirable abandon, with De Leon delivering a bravura turn as a woman levelheadedly claiming her due. Review | ‘Triangle of Sadness’ satirizes the 0.01 percent, with queasy glee 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Levit’s playing has a bravura intensity and an elegance, connecting emotionally and intellectually. Igor Levit back on road but post-pandemic far from normal 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z The eventual, somewhat schematic explanations of what the Longshadow Man is and why he’s hunting Thistlefoot aren’t as interesting as the author’s bravura riffs connecting old and new tales and Old and New Worlds. Review | ‘Thistlefoot’ ambitiously reimagines the legend of Baba Yaga 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z In a feat of bravura storytelling, Coe relates the horrors of those years through an imaginary screenplay conceived in the style of Wilder. Review | In ‘Mr. Wilder and Me,’ Billy Wilder is a character worthy of his films 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Then he’d find his place under the lights and start blowing bravura phrases through his saxophone until Earth’s gravity started to loosen. Perspective | Pharoah Sanders walked among us 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Gurnah’s bravura, beautifully calibrated novel “Afterlives” encompasses the meld of cultures and languages in eastern Africa and the punishing legacy of European colonialism. War and peace surge through Abdulrazak Gurnah’s brilliant ‘Afterlives’ 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z It came in full-throated cascades, for the greatest women’s tennis player in history, for the bravura thrust of her game and for the breadth of her dominion now complete. Perspective | Serena Williams’s exit was just like her career — a fight to the end 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z It’s Field’s first film in over 15 years and features what is already being hailed as a bravura performance from one of cinema’s most celebrated actors. For Cate Blanchett, Todd Fields’ ‘TÁR’ was ‘undeniable’ 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z One longs for the bravura spark of a Lady Gaga as the charismatic killer — or even Jared Leto’s Latka Gravas-like hamfest — anything to inject some energy into this oddly inert drama. Review | ‘The Good Boss’: Capitalism should be more fun than this 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z And despite the bravura, Mr. Trump has betrayed anxiety in private conversations about where this is all leading, people who have spoken to him say. Trump, Without the Presidency’s Protections, Struggles for a Strategy 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z On Wednesday he turned it into a bravura media performance. Scott Morrison: Is this the end for 'Side Hustle Scotty'? 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Vitaliy Kim, the head of the regional military administration, has become something of a national idol through his consistent bravura in video and other messages, calling the Russian army “stupid,” among other dismissive remarks. Mayor of Embattled Southern Ukrainian City Urges All Residents to Leave 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z It might be the bravura rendering of a fancy plumed hat or a fabulous red mustache. Perspective | I don’t know Corneille de Lyon. I just know his portraits are alive. It’s the essence of bravura, the kind of consummate conquest of the stage we theater freaks seek, night after night. Perspective | Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer and other stars light up London plays 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z “Maya Déco,” a bravura Mayan decoration with a dazzling cadenza, became a showpiece for Dueñas. Review: The environmental impact of composers Ellen Reid and Gabriela Ortiz, indoors and out 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s draft opinion, myopic and entitled in its tone, is a bravura conservative deceit. Opinion | Justice Alito’s conceit 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z Compared with the bravura exterior, the interior hews closer to familiar E.V. tropes. Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 Nods to Past While Pushing Toward E.V. Future 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z “King Richard”: a stirring sports movie lifted by a bravura Will Smith performance! Opinion | We Aren’t Just Watching the Decline of the Oscars. We’re Watching the End of the Movies. 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z He added: "An actress of great wit and extraordinary talent, she conquered generations of Italians with her spirit, her bravura, her beauty." Monica Vitti: 'Queen of Italian cinema' dies at 90 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z The film begins on an exultant note, with a bravura traveling shot following Alana down a line of junior high-schoolers waiting to have their yearbook photographs taken, offering a mirror for last-minute primping. Review | ‘Licorice Pizza’ movie review: As aimless as a dream, but with its own offbeat logic 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Mrs. Lam, for all her new bravura, seems aware of how tenuous her apparent political resurrection is. Can a ‘Very Confident’ Carrie Lam Salvage Her Legacy in Hong Kong? 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Starting in prerevolutionary Russia, a new approach to theater insisted on truth — as opposed to eloquence, bravura or technical skill — as the highest value in acting. Hollywood Still Matters. These Actors Showed Why. 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z The rookie even pulls off a subtle, bravura, extended, unbroken take conveying a character’s mastery at a particular game. Review: Its voice is ragged, but 'Hard Luck Love Song' hits so many right notes 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The sections in which Theo conjures up imaginary planets and their life forms as bedtime stories for his excitable son are bravura flights of scientific and literary fancy. Pulitzer winner Richard Powers impresses with engrossing new novel ‘Bewilderment’ 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Horatio famously closes the play with a bravura first draft of history after Hamlet is slain. Review: Murder most modern: A present-day 'Hamlet' throws in some twists and a lot of fun 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z It’s the perfect vehicle for bravura direction and editing, without ever losing the momentum of each ridiculous and joyous stunt. Perspective | The Fast and Furious franchise ranked, from worst to best 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z And though Mr. d’Amboise choreographed works for the New York City Ballet, it was as a performer that he most enticed audiences with his bravura and raw virtuosity. Jacques d’Amboise, exuberant star of the New York City Ballet, dies at 86 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z And though d’Amboise choreographed works for the New York City Ballet, it was as a performer that he most enticed audiences with his bravura and raw virtuosity. Jacques d’Amboise, exuberant star of the New York City Ballet, dies at 86 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Such bravura language, he said, was the result of persistent refining during every rehearsal and performance over decades. James Levine, acclaimed Metropolitan Opera conductor who faced abuse allegations, dies at 77 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Vanessa Kirby delivers a bravura performance in “Pieces of a Woman.” Review | ‘Pieces of a Woman’ is an acting showcase, but not much of a movie 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z After she left the group, Lambert and Hendricks soldiered on with other female singers, but they could not match Ms. Ross's timing, bravura style and high-note confidence. Annie Ross, mainstay of ‘the greatest jazz vocal group that ever was,’ dies at 89 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z In one bravura sequence, the camera keeps a measured distance as the two leads walk through town, keeping up a long and sometimes impenetrable line of chatter the whole way. Review: 'The Vast of Night' is an ingenious, beautifully crafted ode to 1950s sci-fi paranoia 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Johnson’s proclivity for wartime bravura rings hollow in the midst of a public health emergency, especially when set against the more somber messaging of German politicians. Analysis | Where Germany had success in fighting coronavirus, Britain stumbled 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z In a career spanning six decades, Mr. McNally became known for writing bespoke, bravura roles for big stage personalities. Terrence McNally, celebrated playwright who chronicled gay lives, dies at 81 from coronavirus 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Yiadom-Boakye constructs her figures with firm, declarative brushwork on linen or heavy canvas, rather than the more genteel, decorous bravura often undertaken by a Romney or a Reynolds. Review: At the Huntington Library, 'Blue Boy' and 'Pinkie' get new neighbors 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Bryant had no doubts, showing the sort of bravura that could — at times — irritate his critics. Kobe Bryant, from the start, was an athlete like no other 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Winding through dense tracts of script, her ninety-minute performance is a feat of subtle bravura. Exploring Family Trauma in “My Name Is Lucy Barton” 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z His most bravura gesture comes in Act III, as Wozzeck staggers away from the pond where he has murdered Marie and into a bar full of drunkenly dancing figures. Operatic Shows of Force 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The quarterback laughs off the early criticism, remembering how last January after his bravura championship game many commentators said he should withdraw from school and spend the next two years prepping for the NFL. Underdogs again, Clemson heading to another CFP title game 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z They were bravura performances, which the president liked very much. GOP's propaganda circus: Havin' fun and tellin' lies at the impeachment hearings 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Intent on getting and holding our attention, “Bombshell” starts with a bravura moment. Review: Based on the real-life drama at Fox News, ‘Bombshell’ explodes on the screen 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z But Wagner was also the unrivaled master of doubt and insecurity clothed in deceptive bravura. Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen has a 'Ring' in the making. Orange County gets a sampling 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z The bravura first movement, the composer writes in his notes, is “subjected to cosmic, atmospheric, agricultural, etc. avatars, with its eternal flux and alternation of situations happy and unhappy.” Review: Dudamel channels American cowboys, indigenous Mexicans, ethnic groups of South America 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z But the set pieces are too often devoid of the bravura filmmaking one associates with Lee, who suffers from an overreliance on weightless computer animation. Review | Will Smith’s ‘Gemini Man’ is an ambitious experiment gone horribly wrong 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Still, there’s something admirably bravura about “Beloved Beast,” which just keeps going, hour after hour, grinding through dry, tedious scenes of lousy people misbehaving, with no end in sight. Review: Four very different horror films arrive in time for Halloween 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z It’s a bravura face-off with no-holds-barred fight choreography that culminates with Smith somehow firing a motorcycle at his older self. Ang Lee puts Will Smith through a digital wringer in Gemini Man 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z He told me about a bravura operation that he performed, in 2008, on an Italian woman who had a huge tumor on her liver. Paging Dr. Robot 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Beginning with Austria, where Verstappen’s bravura recovery from ninth to the win stole the show; through the British Grand Prix where passing and incident abounded, to the drama of Germany in changing conditions. Mercedes show their daring side to keep F1 thrill factor cranked up high 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z His bravura performance—he won by an astounding six shots at 25 under par—makes him golf’s latest nowhere-to-everywhere story. Rejoice in 'out-of-nowhere' winners, but appreciate they've prepped for those moments their entire lives - Golf Digest 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Star Fryogeni, who bears a striking resemblance to Frances McDormand, appears in almost every shot, and she carries the film with a bravura performance of a woman at her wit’s end. Reviews: Jim Gaffigan doubles up in ‘Being Frank’; Jack Quaid is ‘Plus One’; and more 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z |
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