tranquillo
Americanadverb
adjective
Example Sentences
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“It’s in the middle of the town,” he told The Guardian in 2014 about his studio, “but it’s ‘molto tranquillo.’”
From New York Times
She described the atmosphere next door as “tranquillo.”
From New York Times
The most important thing in this moment is that you catch the molto tranquillo just before she says the line, so that it’s very, very quiet and kind of spooky.
From New York Times
The first number passes for the most part in a rocking of the motive of the sea, in various moods and movements: Largo e maestoso, Allegro non troppo,—tranquillo.
From Project Gutenberg
Out of this sombre song flows a romance of tender sentiment, tranquillo in strings, followed by the wood.
From Project Gutenberg
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