What we find instead is Stendhalian brio

Wallace demonstrates with comic brio in the short stories in Brief Interviews

wrote Moore with ironic brio

thrown off, with such brio, in a work of history

Joan Didion, for all her stylistic brio, becomes straightforward

until recently I was retching and whimpering away with some brio

she’s out there playing Chopin too fast but I don’t know, I don’t mind. I want to resent her but she brings it a certain brio the tubercular Pole probably didn’t have the breath for but that’s her interpretation, her spirit

they are properly dazzled by its mixture of high-tech literariness, pop-culture savvy, and story-telling brio

Both boys were rapists, not just the one who had the brio to announce it so insouciantly.