terribilita

There was in old Giorgio an energy of feeling, a personal quality of conviction, something they called "terribilita" -- "an old lion," they used to say of him.

Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad 1890

The _terribilita_ of Michaelangelo, the chaos and anarchy of Shakespeare at his greatest, as in Lear -- these find expression in perfect rhythms, so potent that we recognize them as proceeding from a supernal beauty, the beauty of that soul "from which also cometh the life of man and of beast, and of the birds of the air and of the fishes of the sea."

Four-Dimensional Vistas Claude Fayette Bragdon 1906

I am willing to admit that the conception may have been Giorgione's, although even then it would stand alone as evidence of an imagination almost Michelangelesque in its terribilita.

Giorgione Cook, Herbert 1904

The entire movement has been cast from a single block of Aeolian marble, rendered under Schuricht's musical terribilita.

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