But once he found his groove, the multi-division champion put on a bravura boxing clinic.
The fact that the bravura concept required formidable structural ingenuity and improvised technology guaranteed problems.
The bravura of this last vision suggests how TIFs can get out of hand.
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The effect of all this bravura glasswork is, predictably, a constrained outward view for the driver.
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This was just the sort of bravura piece and hyper-public occasion of which he had become a master.
His bravura and extravagance in creating Selfridges was boundless, as was his optimism.
Even that may be an overstatement: actual votes for a rupture might fall short of bravura responses to pollsters.
The story is often offered as emblematic of the Koch bravura, illustrative of his shtick, his showmanship, his hubris.
She also thinks that there is the bravura of a young boy's dare to his taunting, which irks her no less.
"'Frenchie' was fantastic, probably my man-of-the-match, " added flanker Joe Worsley, who delivered another bravura defensive effort to rank with his 2004 vintage.
The talents of Alan Rickman, Juliet Stevenson and Kristen Scott-Thomas nevertheless conspire with Mr Minghella's bravura film-making technique to crush the play's humours.
As a record of his bravura style, the diaries are a poor account compared with the collected letters and with Kathleen Tynan's biography.
This was nothing like the bravura performance we witnessed last weekend, when the first-year starter terrorized the Green Bay Packers with his blazing speed and scrambling ability.
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The film is built around long takes of tightly composed performances, culminating in a bravura four-minute shot with entrances and exits brilliantly orchestrated by the commanding presence of Cassavetes.
This bravura general explanation--of how a failing company and its toadying audit firm can cook the books through nonexistent revenue--is an expository tour de force and the core of the novel.
You suspect that Busoni is mocking the bravura Romantic concerto as it emerged in the later nineteenth century, and, more widely, satirizing the gargantuan, post-Wagnerian apparatus of the music of his day.
Although the movie is disjointed, the filmmakers pull off some bravura sequences (the armored-car robbery at the end is spectacular), and they know how to get a scene moving and build on it with a Scorsese-like sweep.
How far that lightning will strike audiences is going to depend on telling the westernising Ogarev from the slavophile Aksakov, the anarchist Bakunin from the literary critic Belinsky (played with febrile bravura by Will Keen in the plays' outstanding performance).
The most flagrant of these miscarriages of justice occurred in 1981, when the Motion Picture Academy chose Robert Redford's plodding direction of "Ordinary People" over Mr. Scorsese's bravura work in "Raging Bull, " which is the most powerful of the four films in this new DVD box.
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