con spirito
Americanadverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of con spirito
1890–95; < Italian: literally, with spirit
Example Sentences
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The allegro first movement of the "Haffner," for example, is really more maestoso than the prescribed con spirito.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ditto, for taking porter, beer, or any other inferior swipes—a similar movement, but not con spirito.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841 by Various
It begins allegro con spirito and fortissimo, and keeps it up till the first episode, which is in the same time, but pianissimo and in the minor.
From Shakespeare and Music by Wilson, Christopher
Now boys, the grand new tune, "Britannia Rules the Waves," play con spirito, that means heart! mind! soul! as if you meant it.
From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Curzon, Sarah Anne
The great philosophical Radical, the encyclopædia of political wisdom, the benefactor, the saviour, the regenerator of Ireland, left Cork to the strains of the Butter Exchange Band—con amore, affetuoso, and doubtless con spirito.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John
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