#179 brio

brio- liveliness or vigour; spirit

- C19 from Italian, Celtic origin

His Richard III had a hypnotic power, an evil elegance and wit the like of which I had never seen before and have not seen since, and in certain comic parts his imaginative brio is quite superlative.

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