

Mar 5, 2013 This week's theme

There's a word for it



This week's words

gelasin

sprezzatura

polylemma

schadenfreude

palimpsest



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sprezzatura PRONUNCIATION: (spret-sah-TOOR-uh)

MEANING: noun: Doing (or giving the appearance of doing) something effortlessly; effortless grace; nonchalance.

ETYMOLOGY: From Italian. Earliest documented use: 1957.

USAGE:

Hilary Mantel; Bring Up the Bodies; Henry Holt; 2012. "Norris is a man always in equipoise , a living illustration of the art of sprezzatura. No one has ever seen him ruffled."Hilary Mantel; Bring Up the Bodies; Henry Holt; 2012.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Laugh, and the world laughs with you; / Weep, and you weep alone. / For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, / But has trouble enough of its own.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (1850-1919)





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