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sprezzatura
[sprets-uh-toor-uh]
noun
seemingly effortless grace in manner or careless stylishness in dress; casual charisma or allure.
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Ruth oozed a magnetic quality that the 16th-century writer Castiglione called “sprezzatura . . . a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort.”
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She exuded a cool girl’s sprezzatura, style as nonchalance.
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This was not the Italy of sprezzatura, of gleeful chaos.
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