Sentence examples for bracing work from inspiring English sources

Though the overture is a bracing work, it can sound bombastic in superficially exciting performances.

On Nov. 19, the landmarks commission issued a permit for shoring and bracing work on the building.

After all, the breakout leading man -- who appeared in four movies in 2011, including "X-Men: First Class," "Jane Eyre" and "A Dangerous Method" -- was expected to earn Oscar plaudits for his bracing work in "Shame," the sex addiction drama from Steve McQueen.

But those who came heard him perform five diverse, bracing works that he has eagerly championed for years.

May 3 2011 For the opening of its six-week season, the company looks back at some of the most iconic, bracing works in its repertory.

And in helping Mr. Mortier open the festival to new music and bracing works by living composers, he has made it a more stimulating place to hear the "Jupiter" Symphony and "Don Giovanni".

But after hearing Mr. McMillen play these difficult, bracing works with such command and excitement, I think I have a keener sense of who he is as an artist than I would have gotten from your basic Haydn-Beethoven-Chopin-Ravel debut recital.

The orchestra's charismatic music director, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conducted the premiere performance of a major new work by John Adams, "The Dharma at Big Sur," commissioned for the occasion, and a bracing 1996 work of his own, "L.A. Variations".

Would the snoozers at the Philharmonic have been so uninvolved had the Brahms come after, say, a bracing contemporary work?

That this should feel like an original approach is testimony to how bracing his work really is.

The company is rightly cherished for its bracing, witty work, the nearest theatre gets to the ingenious freedom of cartoons.