Sentence examples for bracing insight from inspiring English sources

That's a genuine and bracing insight.

The writing has moments of quietly bracing insight, as these two fiercely particular individuals attempt to navigate the other.

All three of these books share an aura of knowledge, a tone of refinement and a sensation of bracing insight that, in a volume of modest length, loses rather than gains power through repetition.

Marcello Giordani, as the bandit Ernani, sings with full-throated vitality; Sondra Radvanovsky, as his love, Elvira, and Thomas Hampson, as his rival, excel in Verdi's moments of meditative, mid-tempo lyricism; and the veteran Italian basso Ferruccio Furlanetto, with bracing insight and a voice like granite, presses the drama toward its inexorable conclusion.

Just try to find so bracing an insight on "Project Runway," "Top Chef" or "America's Next Top Model" — the TV shows that, year after year, suggest that what Americans most desire is to move to a metropolis and get involved with runways or restaurants.

His style as a soloist, on soprano as well as tenor, was less essayistic than epigrammatic: bursts of distilled insight, bracing and precise.

But I am willing to trade a little aural roughness for bracing performances when a conductor and players challenge themselves in the best sense and bring striking insights to standard repertory or champion living composers.

Mr. Ohlsson, for all his insight into the German Romantic tradition, brings a youthful American freshness to Brahms that results in impressive clarity and bracing rhythmic energy.