The other is the volto sciolto a pensieri stretti.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

Volto sciolto con pensieri stretti, is a most useful maxim in business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

In Berlin è il loro ultimo singolo, uscito per The Beggars Group, anche se il gruppo sembra essersi sciolto.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Fat Clips!!! : ELECTRELANE – In Berlin] Reference

An analogous observation can be made for English blank verse and for the corresponding verse form, endecasillabo sciolto.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugenio Montale - Nobel Lecture] Reference

These are reserves and cautions very necessary to have, but very imprudent to show; the volto sciolto should accompany them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

That garment is the volto sciolto; an imposing air, an elegant politeness, easy and engaging manners, universal attention, an insinuating gentleness, and all those je ne sais quoi that compose the GRACES.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

Great caution is therefore necessary; and if, to great caution, you can join seeming frankness and openness, you will unite what Machiavel reckons very difficult but very necessary to be united; volto sciolto e pensieri stretti.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

Polite manners, a versatility of mind, a complaisance even to enemies, and the volto sciolto, with the pensieri stretti, are only to be learned at courts, and must be well learned by whoever would either shine or thrive in them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

The height of abilities is to have volto sciolto and pensieri stretti; that is, a frank, open, and ingenuous exterior, with a prudent interior; to be upon your own guard, and yet, by a seeming natural openness, to put people off theirs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

"Il volto sciolto ed i pensieri stretti," declared Giuseppe with gloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Redmaynes] Reference

Milton had not acted on Sir Henry Wootton's advice to him, il volto sciolto, i pensieri stretti.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of John Milton]

In Italy, "cane sciolto" or "dog without a leash" would be used, said ANSA Italian journalist Matteo Bosco Bortolaso.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Whackjob] Reference

Onda Libera, where he sang a hymn about the joys of defecation entitled "L'inno del corpo sciolto," which was later censored.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpoutBlog] Reference

Born and nurtured as I was in the art of the volto sciolto pensieri stretti, I had seldom found a more arduous task of dissimulation than that which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelham — Complete] Reference

Certainly no one ever more fully grasped the sense of the famous sentence given by Wotton to Milton, when the latter was starting on his travels: “I pensieri stretti ed il viso sciolto.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Marvell]

Il volto sciolto, ed i pensieri stretti, was a proverb made on purpose for such mortals, to keep people, if possible, from being thus the heralds of their own shame; for what compassion can they gain by such silly narratives?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson] Reference

When later he grieved his loss of Amina in "Tutto e sciolto," he sustains and shapes his final notes -- having thrown in some high Ds with the high Cs -- so that he almost holds them longer than the applause that greets his astounding feat.    From Wordnik.com.  [TheaterMania.com] Reference

In the first place, Belinda Portman is niece to Mrs Stanhope; she may have all her aunt's art, and the still greater art to conceal it under the mask of openness and simplicity: Volto sciolto, pensieri stretti, is the grand maxim of the Stanhope school. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belinda] Reference

Rodolfo's apartment; the duet, "O mio dolor," in the next scene, in which Amina asserts her innocence; the aria for tenor in the third scene of the second act, "Tutto e sciolto," in which Elvino bemoans his sad lot; and that joyous ecstatic outburst of birdlike melody.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers] Reference

But the volto sciolto (Volto sciolto, pensieri stretti -- the countenance open, the thoughts restrained.) which, in common with all Italian politicians, concealed whatever were his pensieri stretti -- enabled him to baffle completely the jealous and lynxlike observation of the Cardinal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes] Reference

He began now to grow weary of the country, and had some purpose of taking chambers in the Inns of Court, when the death of his mother set him at liberty to travel, for which he obtained his father's consent, and Sir Henry Wotton's directions; with the celebrated precept of prudence, i pensieri stretti, ed il viso sciolto.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference

“And you don’t tell tales out of school — the volto sciolto — hey, Mr. Warrington?” says my lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

Hai rotto e sciolto e spento.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

“Volto sciolto, eh?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Hoggarty Diamond] Reference