How to Use virtuosic in a Sentence

virtuosic

adjective

• The film's virtuosic visual style is as much a part of its legacy as its themes.
  — NBC News, 4 July 2021
• To hear Lightfoot’s virtuosic work is to have been pierced by its beauty.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 2 May 2023
• And yet…Friedkin, for all his virtuosic kinesthetic vérité zap, was very much in thrall to the theater.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
• But there’s not enough going on behind the virtuosic smoke and mirrors.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
• For all that success, one of the most virtuosic cartoonists of the past century did not need to be front and center.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• The entire range of each instrument is employed in a virtuosic way.
  — James Bash | , oregonlive, 19 June 2023
• Both in his blindness and in his virtuosic skill, this master singer has often been seen as a self-portrait in miniature of Homer.
  — James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 23 Sep. 2021
• The media celebrates the big hit, the virtuosic defensive play and the strikeout, but so much of the real action comes between all that.
  — Alva Noë, WSJ, 18 July 2023
• Tharp explores the idea of a hero in the experienced body of a virtuosic dancer, no longer young yet armed with a different kind of vibrancy.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• His drawing of a reclining nude male is virtuosic in the fineness of its line and the subtlety of shadow and light, and all the more so in it being rendered using chalk, soft and fussy at the best of times.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• Benjamin is not a virtuosic flautist, and he’s described the album as a document of discovery.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
• And this cast sings the score as if it is embedded in their very DNA, with all the tonal shifts, subtle shadings, deft harmonies and tricky melismas delivered with virtuosic panache.
  — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• To be able to please both factions of viewers is to be operating at a virtuosic level, as my colleague David Sims has written.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2024
• Midkiff himself was on hand to perform the virtuosic solo line with proprietary ease.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
• Think of Isabelle Huppert’s most virtuosic performances, and there’s a common thread running through them.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 13 July 2022
• Her breathtaking vocal tics — the epitome of sprezzatura — add virtuosic verve to the track’s lolling vintage groove.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2022
• Bebop pianists, following the lead of Bud Powell, became known for their virtuosic flurries of notes.
  — Eric Grode, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
• Dorrance, in a sustained and intriguing solo mostly viewed in profile, is a quirky, virtuosic dancer, and the reassuring heart of her work.
  — Catherine Tharin, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• The superbly edited film invited the audience to move between their own memories of the events on the screen and an awareness of the onstage performance by the virtuosic players.
  — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
• The best onscreen dancing immortalizes the way that a virtuosic body interacts at close range with everyday objects: a raincoat, a chair, a stool, a hat.
  — Lizzie Feidelson, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2023
• The transgression paid off: In the cafeteria, Meisel, a fellow student who would go on to become one of fashion’s most virtuosic and revered photographers, waved her over.
  — Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• Vernon Reid do his virtuosic postmodern thing on guitar each night.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 27 July 2021
• Kavakos, who elsewhere on the program played with such beauty, was shockingly brusque and harsh in the second movement, with both performers fiercely virtuosic.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2021
• Indeed, the 10-minute medley, which is re-created in full, was a virtuosic vocal performance of which only Houston was capable, but this deep cut seems an odd choice to open and close the film.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
• No matter: a vibrant cast and a virtuosic instrumental ensemble, under the baton of Christopher Rountree, brought the score to life.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• The narrow, arched room below the Medici Chapels Museum in Florence has some suspiciously virtuosic doodles on the walls.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• The Rachmaninoff marathon also had a virtuosic appeal for Wang, an inveterate thrill-seeker who has learned to Jet Ski and dabbled in cryotherapy.
  — Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• The foundation for Elliott’s path to virtuosic artist is built on her work with Aaliyah, who also breathed life into some of Timbaland’s most abstract compositions.
  — Julian Kimble, Essence, 25 Aug. 2021
• Lish’s writing about Corey’s work and his cage fighting displays a virtuosic level of detail as the boy undergoes trials and humiliations and learns how to keep his jobs and win his matches.
  — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• Advertisement Instead, the show is an assemblage of virtuosic dance artists who integrate tap, hip-hop and jazz movement styles with the precision of ballet.
  — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024