stretta

Scusi prego la mia povera stretta della vostra lingua.

Fiat wants to be Apple 2007

Scusi prego la mia povera stretta della vostra lingua.

Fiat wants to be Apple 2007

And with the discretion of rare breeding she carries into the haunts of vice and miserable intrigue the Italian byword: _Orecchie spalancate, e bocca stretta_.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

One author says: "... _impossibile a guardare quel goffo e disgraziato San Lodovico senza sentire una stretta al cuore_."

Donatello, by Lord Balcarres David Lindsay Crawford 1905

The composition is ineffective, and in spots ugly -- particularly in the stretta -- and is no doubt an exercise during the working years with Elsner.

Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

The only objection he had to make was that the stretta of the second finale was too abrupt, a criticism which proved his keenness of perception; and I was able to show him, by the score, how I had been compelled, much against my inclination, to curtail the opera, and thereby create the position to which he had taken exception.

My Life — Volume 1 Richard Wagner 1848

Adolph von Nassau, with the knights of the German empire, swears vengeance, and, accompanied by the chorus, pours out his feelings in a stretta of such incredible vulgarity and amateurishness that Donizetti would have thrown it at the head of any of his pupils who had dared to compose such a thing.

My Life — Volume 1 Richard Wagner 1848

The piece, as it is with many of Rossini's finales, is multi-sectioned, moving steadily from the simplest forms to the vigorous stretta.

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The piece, as it is with many of Rossini's finales, is multi-sectioned, moving steadily from the simplest forms to the vigorous stretta.

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We worked hard, drank a fair bit, and the one vocabulary we all shared was fluent obscenity, both English and other (I can't speak Italian, but I still remember "aqua fresca, vino puro, figa stretta, cazzo duro").

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