Their meticulous detail and velvety contrasts also evoke Ansel Adams's technical bravura, which is to say that they seem to have been stage-managed to death.

Beyond a show of technical bravura, what, if anything, has been gained?

That's roughly how the two camps of traditional pop-jazz singing divide in the struggle for supremacy between emotional honesty (Sinatra-Holiday) and technical bravura (Tormé-Fitzgerald).

Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura.

For all the technical bravura, the pieces seem increasingly empty, with the subjects more sentimental than stirring.

Kárpáti describes the piece as possessing "technical bravura and at the same time...poetic versatility".

In the short run, however, it sometimes inspires twisty refinements that accomplish very little aside from showing off the designer's technical bravura.

But there is more to being a great actor than empathy, technical bravura and fastidiousness, all combined.

But Mr. Ortiz and his company, Losdenmedium, fused abstract gestures with technical bravura and rough-and-tumble partnering.

The work is said by Kárpáti to have "technical bravura and at the same time...poetic versatility".