November 2010
13 posts
“that’s all it takes, really, pressure and time.”
– The Shawshank Redemption
sprezzatura
wordjournal:
noun • studied nonchalance.
From Italian, coined in The Book of the Courtier (1528), which describes it as “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it.”
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...”
– Roald Dahl
