dolce

• “I am tired of the phrase dolce far niente, the sweetness of doing nothing, but what better way is there to describe that day?”

  Simon & Schuster: The Italian Summer

• “The meaning of Johannes Brahms '"p dolce" is the center of the mystery and both characters, the handsome Kristian and the plain Frederica, are desperate to learn the secret.”

  REVIEW: Fast Forward 1 edited by Lou Anders

• “The type of Gorgonzola required is the creamy, almost runny, cheese called dolce, not the drier sharper variety.”

  Simon & Schuster: How To Cook Italian

• “It’s a salad I’ve been making for years, but this year, I made it a little better by using gorgonzola dolce, which is aged for less time than regular gorgonzola cheese, making it milder and softer; it goes especially well with pears.”

  Archive 2007-11-01

• “As city preps new design guidelines, which Cap Hill buildings do you love, hate? tidbitbistro: ... and by the the way, in Italian the word 'dolce' is used for both 'dessert' and sweet. bneck: No. 11 UW plays No. 6 Marquette at 4: 20 on Thurs in first of the March Madness games.”

  CHS Capitol Hill Seattle capitolhillseattle.com

• “What is more, Italy's history of lax economic management has come to be associated in Germany with a cultural stereotype: Of profligate Mediterraneans who are more interested in leading la dolce vita than in gathering their nuts for winter.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Italy's Draghi Aims to Ease German Doubt

• “I realised something was happening three years ago when a beach kiosk from further down the sands floated past us in a storm, said Paolo Moscia, a lifeguard at the nudist section at Capocotta, which has drawn a mixture of gay bathers, ministers, musicians and hip film directors since Allen Ginsberg hung out there in the 1950s, and wild high-society drug parties gave birth to la dolce vita.”

  The Guardian: Italy's elite are dismayed by vanishing beaches

• “This dolce vita was, as Starr makes clear, a democratic one: the ranch houses with their sliding glass doors and orange trees in the backyard might have been more sprawling in La Cañada and Orinda than they were in the working-class suburbs of Lakewood and Hayward, but family and social life in nearly all of them centered on the patio, the barbecue, and the swimming pool.”

  California Dreamers

• “This historic bar, with liveried waiters serving Campari to a well-dressed clientele, may be the most elegantly "dolce vita" of Rome's watering holes.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Finding Fellini

• “Here and in the dense network of alleys west of Piazza Navona, restaurants, wine bars, cocktail spots and nightclubs keep a new dolce vita alive much to the chagrin of residents.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Finding Fellini

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