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brio
brio
[brio]
n.
1.) Liveliness, vivacity, ‘go’ (
O.E.D. 2nd Ed.
).
Etymology: Italian, lit. mettle, fire, life; in the musical phrase
con brio
. From Spanish
brio
, or Provençal
briu
, both of Celtic origin.
"The
brio
of the text (without which, after all, there is no text) is its
will to bliss:
just where it exceeds demand, transcends prattle, and whereby it attempts to overflow, to break through the constraint of adjectives—which are those doors of language through which the ideological and the imaginary come flowing in" (
The Pleasure of the Text
by Roland Barthes, Richard Miller (trans.), 1975).
(
Allegro con brio
, Tom Roberts, 1886)
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