morbidezza

With morbidezza, as the painters say.

La plus que lente is marked "Molto rubato con morbidezza," indicating Debussy's encouragement of a flexible tempo.

Nor does it recall the vibrancy of Conchita Supervia, the sheen of Frederica von Stade or the morbidezza of Lucia Valentini-Terrani.

The picture was more than five hundred years old; and time had not changed its colors, unless to touch them with the mellow softness of ancient hours, with the gathering morbidezza of bygone things.

And elsewhere he talks learnedly of "a delicate Schiavone, various as a tulip-bed, with rich broken tints," of "a glowing portrait, remarkable for morbidezza, by the scarce Moroni," and of another picture being "pulpy in the carnations."

Overall, art historian Mariana Vida notes, the society was stylistically undecided, but its members tended to display the same Symbolist psychology: "the Symbolist artist is a decadent, swept over by morbidezza and eroticism, persuaded by suffering, despising the bourgeois life."