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mezzo .
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Examples
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Jim, I love watching this dial testing because you can see in real time people's reaction to the speech whether they liked it, whether they didn't like it, or whether they were just kind of mezza mezza on the whole thing.
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ROBERTS: Ed, other than tough talk and trying to take some action at the Security Council that Russia could veto if it were anything less than just kind of mezza mezza, is there anything that the White House can do to turn this back?
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No decent person, man or women, would linger in that area nor was there much in the way of $7.75 mezza plates to be found in the area.
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Ci vuole circa mezz'ora ad andare e mezza a tornare, e spero che se lo faccio abbastanza spesso la salita mi fara' meno male.
Archive 2009-04-01 Ra 2009
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Ci vuole circa mezz'ora ad andare e mezza a tornare, e spero che se lo faccio abbastanza spesso la salita mi fara' meno male.
Embrace the Princetonness Ra 2009
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“Barba ben saponata mezza fatta” = well lathered is half shaved.
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At 60, Pavarotti can still produce a melting mezza voce, but this crowd was hungry for volume, the more, the better.
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Pensavo che accatastare mezza tonnellata di legname stancasse a sufficienza, eppure…
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Mr. Licitra is a protégé of one of the exemplary postwar Verdi stylists, Carlo Bergonzi, and he has that great tenor's unforced elegance of line, command of mezza voce and the capacity to adjust the timbre of his voice to suit the requisite emotion, from a stentorian, almost baritone thickness that promises a great Otello one day, to the reedy plaintiveness of La Traviata 's Alfredo.
Is Licitra Tomorrow's Tenor? The Heir Apparent Appraised 2003
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Keeping well back in the throng, he followed McKnight and a whole band of people out into the mezza - nine and down the wide, sweeping metal staircase into the lobby.
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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