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From Italian con brio (literally with vigor).

con brio (not comparable)

  1. (music) with spirit, with vigor; vivaciously (used as a musical direction)
    • 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:

      She ate, drank, worked, danced, and made love in exactly the same way: con brio.

    • 2012, Stephen King, chapter 20, in 11/22/63, page 442:

      The bags were obviously heavy but she carried them con brio, her back straight, her low heels clicking briskly.