morbidezza
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of morbidezza
1615–25; < Italian, equivalent to morbid ( o ) delicate ( see morbid) + -ezza -ice
Example Sentences
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It had that creamy morbidezza one sees in a furled magnolia bud.
From A Butterfly on the Wheel by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger
Morbidezza is the precise phrase; morbidezza may be found in Chopin's art, in the very feverish moments when he seems brimming over with high spirits.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James
She was tall, and her lovely arms showed through the black gauze of her dress with an exquisite roundness and morbidezza.
From Suburban Sketches by Howells, William Dean
Environed thus, and with a peculiarly Italian morbidezza, or plasticity we find Machiavelli.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper
The back is bony and rather angular; the torso is brilliantly wrought, with a purity of outline and a morbidezza which made the artists in Vasari's time believe the figure had been moulded from life.
From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of
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