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  • Colombia was such a great surprise because I had gone there solely on the virtue and strength of that dish, but I discovered this incredibly elaborate grilling culture that includes things like chiaro, which is like a giant guinea pig cooked on sticks over a eucalyptys open fire - lots of very interesting stuff.

    The Clog 2010

  • You run after a flashy kind of chiaro-scuro, the lighting up of your picture is meant only to strike the eye at the first glance.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

  • Surveying all the men's faces which were grouped before him in a kind of chiaro-oscuro, he studied them for a moment, and then turned his head towards Thord.

    Temporal Power Marie Corelli 1889

  • The character of the picture may not at all depend upon form -- nay, it is possible that the painter may wish to draw away the mind altogether from the beauty, and even correctness of form, his subject being effect and colour, that shall be predominant, and to which form shall be quite subservient, and little more of it than such as chiaro-scuro shall give; and in such a case colour is the more important truth, because in it lies the sentiment of the picture.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

  • Lo so, il titolo non molto chiaro, matriarch ora vi spiego tutto.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • Lo so, il titolo non molto chiaro, matriarch ora vi spiego tutto.

    Appulo scagliona le entrate con Il ponte del troll | Il Bloggatore admin 2009

  • Hehe :- Veramente non credevo che mi avrebbero dato la patente vera e propria da subito, perche' il regolamento riguardante la conversione delle patenti straniere non era molto chiaro.

    So many achievements! Ra 2009

  • Hehe :- Veramente non credevo che mi avrebbero dato la patente vera e propria da subito, perche' il regolamento riguardante la conversione delle patenti straniere non era molto chiaro.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Ra 2009

  • Primo episodio di una serie di tre spot il secondo, La ragazza che non vestiva chiaro nel buio, lo trovate cliccando il link per la campagna Think!

    No Fat Clips!!! : Tales of the Road: The Boy who didn’t Stop, Look and Listen 2009

  • Non e' quel che si direbbe un buon film, sia chiaro, ne' particolarmente razionale - ma mi ha divertito molto, quindi se vi capita, e non avete niente di meglio da guardare, fateci un pensiero magari leggendo prima i commenti su imdb.

    Random thoughts Ra 2008

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