Was love ever painted with more truth and morbidezza than in the ninth book?. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
The analytical morbidezza, without which the modern generation finds it hard to imagine an author, is foreign to him. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 - Presentation Speech] Reference
But you took to drawing plans; you don't understand morbidezza, and that kind of thing. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
Environed thus, and with a peculiarly Italian morbidezza, or plasticity we find Machiavelli. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference
Adriana Lecouvreur are morbidezza, il sacro fuoco, voce di petto and of course the ability to wear a turban. From Wordnik.com. [parterre box] Reference
The twenty-four preludes Opus 11, for instance, are full of Chopinesque turns, of Chopinesque morbidezza, of Chopinesque melodies. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
In short, the piece is very fine in its way, but the unrelieved, or at least very insufficiently relieved, morbidezza is anything but healthy. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
The idyllic serenity of the former and the Mozartian sweetness of the latter were truly congenial to him; but no less, if not more, so was Spohr's elegiac morbidezza. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
I accompanied them to the door; what a pretty effect the snow background gives to young faces; it lends a pretty morbidezza to the colouring, a sort of very delicate green tinge to the paler shades. From Wordnik.com. [The Altar Fire] Reference
Accordingly, all his compositions ought to be played with that kind of accented, rhythmical balancement, that morbidezza, the secret of which it was difficult to seize if one had not often heard him play. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
And elsewhere he talks learnedly of 'a delicate Schiavone, various as a tulip-bed, with rich broken tints, 'of 'a glowing portrait, remarkable for morbidezza, by the scarce Moroni,' and of another picture being 'pulpy in the carnations.'. From Wordnik.com. [Intentions] Reference
Auriol, that he is afflicted with the morbidezza of 1830. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Mountebank] Reference
It is all Northern music with something elemental in it, and absolutely free from the heavy, languorous odors of the South or the morbidezza of Poland. ". From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
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