| Lex had once told him about the ideal of sprezzatura, the art of seeming artless. |
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| If such reading is sometimes put to the service of sprezzatura, let us hope that room remains for it in the enterprise of literary studies. |
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| Their great size too, makes them the very embodiment of grief, while the play of their trunks lends sprezzatura. |
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| He painted his friend Baldassare Castiglione as the ideal courtier, the embodiment of sprezzatura. |
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| Further, Castiglione invests Il cortegiano with an unusual lightness that both describes sprezzatura and exemplifies it, and a lively dialogue that brings his leading characters to life. |
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| Of course, in this advanced age of the handheld vocabulary, everyone on earth knows what sprezzatura means, but in 2000 I had no idea, and I reached for an Italian dictionary. |
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