Sentence examples for sprezzatura from inspiring English sources

Their great size too, makes them the very embodiment of grief, while the play of their trunks lends sprezzatura.

Further, Castiglione invests Il cortegiano with an unusual lightness that both describes sprezzatura and exemplifies it, and a lively dialogue that brings his leading characters to life.

Its main themes include the nature of graceful behaviour, especially the impression of effortlessness (sprezzatura); the essence of humour; the best form of Italian to speak and write; the relation between the courtier and his prince (stressing the need to speak frankly and not to flatter); the qualities of the ideal court lady (notably "a discreet modesty"); and the definition of honourable love.

Of course, in this advanced age of the handheld vocabulary, everyone on earth knows what sprezzatura means, but in 2000 I had no idea, and I reached for an Italian dictionary.

One by one, the strands of men's fashion emphasized by menswear — heritage Americana, denim fetishism, Ivy League traditionalism, Italian style, with its "sprezzatura," or relaxed, studied flair — became popularized.

That Reid should find ­sprezzatura (Italian for a kind of studied nonchalance) in ­elephant bereavement is surely Martian.

What is the meaning of 'sprezzatura'?" Luca: "I don't know.