How To Use Sicilian In A Sentence

The following brief passage mentions the Sicilian Greek city of Segesta's alliance with Carthage against the Sicilian Greek city of Akragas (Girgenti) in 409 B.C., then briefly describes who bears most responsibility for the destruction of Sicily's Greek architecture. Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily by David Randall-MacIver (1931)
After the almost funereal beginning of the first movement, the clarinets introduce a lyric second theme, which is treated in the graceful manner of a siciliana. NPR Topics: News
The scent is composed around the essence of sandalwood with a hint of ginger, with top notes of Calabrian bergamot, Sicilian mandarin and Tunisian neroli.
The depictions of birds and flowers were executed in precious materials including lapis lazuli, agate, Sicilian red and green jasper, chalcedony, amethyst and quartz as well as superb hard stones.
Beautiful materials are used: in the podium the concrete beams are clad in mullions of black Argentine granite enclosing fillets of white Sicilian marble.

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The strongest influence on its native cuisine is Sicilian, although traditional grilled chops and other British specialties are popular, too.
I'd had lots of friends and classmates back in my high school days who'd seemed a lot like him: the grandkids of Italian and Sicilian immigrants, they were smiling and open-hearted, spunky and pugnacious.
The pizza that people were calling grandma looked like a thin Sicilian slice. Flatiron Lunch: Forget the Pizza, Maffei’s Baked Stuffed Fish is Where It’s At | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
One of the highlights is the Sicilian baroque ballroom with its Murano glass chandeliers. Times, Sunday Times
Sicilian marquetry furniture is immediately recognizable by the rosettes with eight petals, similar to the quatrefoil of Genoa and the star of Naples.
In France, they're a vital component of ratatouille, along with peppers and tomatoes; they play a starring role in Sicilian caponata, that combination of aubergine, celery, tomatoes and capers; and they are at their velvety best in southern Italian melanzane parmigiana, the meltingly delicious dish of layered aubergine, tomato and cheese; and, of course, Greeks love moussaka (see today's recipe). Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's aubergine recipes
Some Negroes live harmoniously in the same tenements with Sicilians. A Renegade History of the United States
Or the Siciliano, its glorious crust brushed with tomato paste seasoned with anchovy and olives and adorned with dollops of tangy sweet-and-sour caponata and cumin-scented ricotta?
A paradox pervades the Sicilian citrus groves and gardens. The Times Literary Supplement
The 2009 Occhipinti SP68, a Sicilian red, won raves for the wine (bright red fruit, good acidity, soft tannins), but the label was derided as ugly and the alphanumeric name was deemed "cheesy" (never mind it's the road that runs by the winemaker's house). Judging a Wine by What It Wears
The depictions of birds and flowers were executed in precious materials including lapis lazuli, agate, Sicilian red and green jasper, chalcedony, amethyst and quartz as well as superb hard stones.
Artichoke is very good pizza, and for four bucks, a slice of the artichoke is a meal in itself though the sicilian margherita is a better slice. PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Jason” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
It would be nice if this could be truly a ‘one scheme fits all’ approach to the Sicilian; alas, there are lines where the kingside fianchetto is hard to achieve (or is not worth achieving).
C Major Variation V and the concluding siciliana will not assuage the mortal coil that surrounds this fateful work which Beethoven, too, found powerfully compelling. Audiophile Audition Headlines
Novella popolare siciliana pubblicata ed illustrata a cura di Francesco Sabatini. Italian Popular Tales
All anyone could talk about now was the coming confrontation between Crassus and Pompey; the plight of the Sicilian was a bore. Imperium
Born in Milan, the son of a Sicilian lawyer, Craxi dropped out of university to devote himself to politics.
Edouard had his chances in the decisive game, a sharp Sicilian Defence, after Sengupta innovated by 17 Qh3 followed by a mazy piece offer. Leonard Barden on Chess
I'm glad we visited - the menu is appealing; there are many non-typical Italian plates with some Sicilian dishes and a compact but well-chosen wine list.
Some poetic licence was used, as caponata is a Sicilian dish usually served cold, though this interpretation went down well.
Sapio Bartelletti, La cucina siciliana nobile e popolare, Milan, 1980. Delizia!
All whiche their doynges, dooe manifestly make, that thei came of the Aethiopes, who (as Diodore the Sicilian saieth) ware the firste inuentours of all these. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
In particular, the one picture of unquestioned authenticity, once in Kenneth, Lord Clark's collection and now at the Barber Institute in Birmingham, is mistitled The Trojans on the Libyan Coast instead of The Sicilian Games.
Just because you have asked, I was unfamiliar with but liked very much the reds from Mount Etna in Sicily, and I also taste a Sicilian Fiano that I liked very much. Advertorial, Leslie Sbrocco, 7-11, chocolate milk, freer trade - sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog
The original sweet pea introduced here more than 300 years ago is likely to have been a magenta and purple bicolour collected in the wild by Francesco Cupani, a botanising Sicilian monk. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Besides, I wanted to eat lemon granita in a sweet bun sandwich for breakfast, discover the secrets behind caponata and pasta alla Norma, and sample the legendary glories of Sicilian pasticceria.
Marks & Spencer Nerello Mascalese, Belice Valley, Agrigento, Sicily £5.99, Marks & SpencerIf you're a fan of the sort of immediately appealing, youthful succulence you find in good beaujolais, you'll love this vibrant Sicilian red. The 20 best Christmas red wines
Sicilians divide ice cream, or ices, into two main categories: the slushy, water-based granita, flavored with island classics like almond or lemon; and gelato, which has a silky, creamy texture thanks to the inclusion of eggs, milk or a starchy emulsifying base, and is preferably made with Sicily's native carob bean. In Search Of The Perfect Gelato
The leaning tower was reportedly one of the targets of a string of bombings carried out by the Sicilian Mafia in 1993 though it was not hit.
In those days it was almost all what you would call Italian, but what I call Sicilian, because to me there’s a big difference. How to Sell Anything to Anybody
The large Caserta pie is of the Sicilian variety, although it has a thinner crust than most Sicilian pizzas and it is cooked all the way through, resembling that of a Foccacia bread and with a distinctive sour flavor in the crust. Rhode Island Dining: Caserta Pizzeria
Kristin, Je pense que c'est plutôt "à la sicilienne"... something tells me that "Sicilian" is not feminine enough. Illico - French Word-A-Day
A paradox pervades the Sicilian citrus groves and gardens. The Times Literary Supplement
I would have left "le chou en question" somewhere along a Sicilian or an Italian field and it would have carried on with its rotting process without upsetting anyone. Clandestin - French Word-A-Day
In the Neapolitan and Sicilian provinces, parishes were scattered, bishoprics penniless, and priests insubordinate: more than half the ecclesiastics convicted of felonies in 1874 served the cross in the Mezzogiorno.
A Sicilian wine having a light red colour with a bouquet of cloves and well rounded fruity flavour. Thorsons Organic Wine Guide
Kristin, Je pense que c'est plutôt "à la sicilienne" ... something tells me that "Sicilian" is not feminine enough. Illico - French Word-A-Day
Cantine Rallo was founded in Marsala, on the westernmost promontory of Sicily, and is a successful integration between nature, technology, and traditional Sicilian wine-making techniques.
The groundbreaking Sicilian work loses all sense of tragedy in Christ Church's shambolic production, which even manages to ruin Pirandello's subtle jibes at traditional theatre.
The Lombards were called avaricious, vicious and cowardly; the Romans, seditious, turbulent and slanderous; the Sicilians, tyrannical and cruel; the inhabitants of The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
In the Neapolitan and Sicilian provinces, parishes were scattered, bishoprics penniless, and priests insubordinate: more than half the ecclesiastics convicted of felonies in 1874 served the cross in the Mezzogiorno.
You know Perahia will leap lightly over Brahms's formidable technical hurdles, and it was good to have each variation so strongly characterised, whether poetic reverie, dancing siciliana or brilliant virtuoso display. Evening Standard - Home
The creators of that music were descendants of slaves like Joe “King” Oliver, Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton, and Louis Armstrong, and men who had been the half-naked children of the old, dark, fat Sicilians of Little Palermo. A Renegade History of the United States
And I had to spend the entire night with one eye glued to my bunkmate, the bigger of the two Sicilians, whose ripe body odor was industrial-strength and whose face looked like it had run into the business end of a butcher knife. Dancing with the Devil
Sicilians divide ice cream, or ices, into two main categories: the slushy, water-based granita, flavored with island classics like almond or lemon; and gelato, which has a silky, creamy texture thanks to the inclusion of eggs, milk or a starchy emulsifying base, and is preferably made with Sicily's native carob bean. In Search Of The Perfect Gelato
It is long since it became no wonder to us that the greatest and in fact the only, real pastoral poet should have been a Sicilian; but it is a marvel indeed, that, having forgotten to bring his _Eclogues_ with us, we cannot, through the whole of Sicily, find a copy of Theocitus for sale, though there is a _Sicilian_ translation of him to be had at Palermo. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
The scent is described as a musky-floral with notes of Sicilian lemon and peony peregrine. All About The Pretty
Two Boots on 9th Ave btw. 44+45th is unveiling a new BBQ Chicken Pizza with green tasso onions and a special Pesto Sicilian crust today at 5:30pm. Free Pizza Sample Alert (for Broadway Lovers!) | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
The groom, Carlo Rizzi, was a half-breed, born of a Sicilian father and the North Italian mother from whom he had inherited his blond hair and blue eyes.
Standing at 151 inches by 91 inches, the cabinet is said to be the greatest Florentine work of art of its time and includes lapis lazuli, agate and Sicilian red and green jasper.
But it is hard to find anyone from Turin eating orecchiette e cime di rape ear-shaped pasta with turnip greens or a Sicilian ordering saffron risotto. Where the Stomach Is the Way to the Heart
Five bullets in his Sicilian hide and he's still alive.
They make their own marinara, which is sweet in the Sicilian style, and, of course, their own meatballs. Undefined
I've kept the pasta simple to let those Sicilian flavours really sing. The Sun
Thankfully for him, he got a huge help from Panaria's Paolo Tiralongo, who gave him his bidon as Ivan passed the Sicilian on the false-flat section.
In the dining-room there was now a Sicilian called Gianni: sallow, with black crinkly hair and appalling teeth, he exuded self-love. POLITICAL SUICIDE
Comfort yourself with its minestrone soup, made Sicilian style - pure vegetables, no pasta.
His Sicilian opponent had never previously been stopped but one vicious uppercut unleashed from a southpaw stance had him seeing stars early on.
Kristin, Je pense que c'est plutôt "à la sicilienne" ... something tells me that "Sicilian" is not feminine enough. Illico - French Word-A-Day
Rosi shot the film in the same village where the real Giuliano came from, using non-professional Sicilian actors.
Second, it works as a metafilm and metafiction, employing sophisticated self-reflexive devices to tell a micro-historical story about film, film spectatorship and its relationship to modern Sicilian life.
There were ballades, chants royal, kyrielles, pantoums, rondeaux, rondels, rondeau redoubles, Sicilian octaves, roundels, sestinas, triolets, villanelles, and virelais to play with, and poets of varying merit had a go.
Animal dung, still used as fertilizer, was piled up in the Sicilian streets awaiting use.
He and several Sicilian businessmen are charged with running legitimate companies as fronts for the Mafia.
He imported a pizza oven from Naples, employed an elderly Sicilian to knead the dough and, in 1965, opened the first Pizza Express on in Soho.
In 1282 a popular uprising known as the Sicilian Vespers ended the subsequent French rule.
A paradox pervades the Sicilian citrus groves and gardens. The Times Literary Supplement
Using a stand-alone ATM is like playing Russian roulette, especially in major metropolitan cities," says Robert Siciliano, a McAfee consultant and founder ofIdentityTheftSecurity. com. Watch Out for ATM Skimming
a handsome fellow, with a moustache that one would expect to see upon the face of a Sicilian brigand, was a cantonnier, and as he scraped out the ditches and mended the roads, his donkey browsed upon what he could find along the wayside. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
Even softer was the chinchilla that lined baby corduroy gilets and below-the-knee hunting shorts, both of them covered in pockets for any game you might find in the Sicilian scrub.
Dinner might start with swordfish carpaccio, moving on to seafood with noodles, tuna with peppers, or caponata, a Sicilian speciality based on aubergines.
Alcibiades the disastrous Sicilian expedition and later ended his life as a defector going to Sparta.
I made it with some Sicilian blood oranges whose flesh ranges from intensely red to a vivid, shocking crimson.
A Horsforth parachutist padre also made the news for his part in the Sicilian landings.
Angelo Siciliano immigrated to New York from Italy as a child, and after getting pounded on by Brooklyn bullies for a few years, he came up with the idea of muscle-against-muscle fitness training, now known as isometric exercise. All articles at Blogcritics
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I recollect only the sword-fish, a local speciality, and (as crowning glory) the _cassata alla siciliana, _ a glacial symphony, a multicoloured ice of commingling flavours, which requires far more time to describe than to devour. Old Calabria
But returning to the Maffia issue: the fact that the Wall Street Maffia lack the cacumen of the Sicilian, does not sgnify they are not Maffia!! Articles
A Sicilian wine having a light red colour with a bouquet of cloves and well rounded fruity flavour. Thorsons Organic Wine Guide
But when it comes to protecting our peace and quiet, we Beggarsdalians make the Sicilians sound like a bunch of loud-mouthed gossips.
One pump of the atomiser transports wearers from dewy English gardens to Sicilian lemon orchards, and every once in a while, a scent such as Feuilles de Tabac entices them to linger in a smoky brasserie off Saint-Germain. Vanity Mirror: Society and Style
The Sicilians are also known for their desserts, including their gelato Siciliano (Sicilian ice cream) and cannoli, a fried pastry stuffed with ricotta cheese and candied fruit.
I am well aware that there is a Sicilian _in fabula_ who is not "mafioso"; that the crude banditism which sits in every Corsican's bones has raised him to the elysium of martyrs and heroes and not, where he ought to have gone, to the gallows; that the Maltese are not merely cantankerous and bigoted (Catholic) Arabs, but also sober, industrious, and economical. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
Aren't Sicilian scoundrels wooing comely American lasses behind every corner?
The touch of the water about his body, the light of the moon upon him, the breath of the air in his wet face drove out his reverence for what he called "intellectuality," and something savage got hold of his soul and shook it, as if to wake up the sleeping self within him, the self that was Sicilian. The Call of the Blood
By 1850, the heaviest concentration was in Louisiana, the result of Sicilian migration to New Orleans and its environs.
Sicilian marquetry furniture is immediately recognizable by the rosettes with eight petals, similar to the quatrefoil of Genoa and the star of Naples.
After the success of the Allied North African campaign, French ships seized by the Allies in African ports were allowed to continue to fly the French flag in the Allied cause, and ten French coasters took part in the Sicilian campaign.
He was born in 1933, and after World War II, joined the Sicilian Mafia as an enforcer.
The Sicilian sun, early - morning lemon - colored, filled Michael's bedroom.
But Willis's easygoing, dancing phrasing warmed up the chamber-sized dimensions of the playing, and once the intonation settled, in time for the bewitching Siciliano of the E-major concerto (BWV 1053), the group began to exude more confidence, and the closing Allegro had a happy brio. Archive 2009-06-01
It is more like a “Grandma Pie” than a New York or Jersey-style Sicilian pie which has a thicker and doughier crust. Rhode Island Dining: Caserta Pizzeria
And infortunately, in the last years the Wall Street Maffia is making more damage as the original Sicilian "Onorabile Societa" and US "Cosa Nostra" together. Articles
English ships, which being come neere them, the Sicilian frigat first hailed them, and demanded of them whence they were? The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The linguist, who has published an Italian-Sicilian Dictionary, also maintains that Sicilian is not neo-Latin, and cites the fact that it has only the three vowels ‘a’, ‘i’, and ‘u’, and has a number of cacuminal consonants.
A thick Sicilian-style crust is drizzled stingily with tomato sauce and lightly sprinkled with cheese - it may very well represent the legal minimum that one can put on bread and still advertise it as pizza.
While we're on Turkey: we got six figs so far off the Brown Turkey fig up along the warm wall, and about five off the White Sicilian, which is more decorative as a specimen tree but more delicate. A tease
The influences that gave rise to the tango in the streets of Buenos Aires range from the Cuban habanera to Sicilian folk song and dance.
Coria, Profumi di Sicilia: Il libro della cucina siciliana, Palermo, 1981. Delizia!
Malia," a Sicilian play of Capuana, is an exhibition of the witchcraft of desire, and it is justified against all accusation by that thrill with which something in us responds to it, admitting: This is I, myself, so it has been given to me to sin and to suffer. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory
Sicilian, phonetically characterized by the presence of retroflexed consonants, not only keeps all the vowel sounds clear and loud but introduces an epenthetic [i] in some consonantic groups.
Then there's Nick, the hot-blooded Sicilian artist who paints scenes from the raw-edged life he leads, and Gene, the blond Viking giant who smokes reefer and plays very, very rough.
This is that of Theocritus, a Sicilian idyllist, who wrote at General History for Colleges and High Schools
There were ballades, chants royal, kyrielles, pantoums, rondeaux, rondels, rondeau redoubles, Sicilian octaves, roundels, sestinas, triolets, villanelles, and virelais to play with, and poets of varying merit had a go.
The Aeolian Islands belongs to the "Sicilian domain", sensu Arrigoni (1983). Aeolian Islands, Italy
The guided Sicilian Volcano Hike will have you trogging up and around Etna for a couple of days, exploring craters and eerie lava fields, then cresting the summit.
The concerti themselves have such delicacy in the dance movements, and a wide variety of moods elsewhere, from the sad siciliana to the most effervescent of optimism in some of the allegros. Audiophile Audition Headlines
He fuckin 'had no respect for that Sicilian ginzo, comin' inta turf Gino wanted, making deals wid Gino's enemies. Second Skin
In France, they're a vital component of ratatouille, along with peppers and tomatoes; they play a starring role in Sicilian caponata, that combination of aubergine, celery, tomatoes and capers; and they are at their velvety best in southern Italian melanzane parmigiana, the meltingly delicious dish of layered aubergine, tomato and cheese; and, of course, Greeks love moussaka (see today's recipe). Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's aubergine recipes
And in a final slap to the Italian detective, Mr. Lally noted that Pellicano's computer passwords always included the term "omerta" -- the Sicilian word for code of silence. Allison Hope Weiner: The Pellicano Trial: The Detective's "Special Services"
The influences that gave rise to the tango in the streets of Buenos Aires range from the Cuban habanera to Sicilian folk song and dance.
Martin orders two carafes of Sicilian malvasia wine.
Nicknamed the “Shark of Messina,” the Sicilian is the big “foreign” threat for the Spanish GC riders. Vicenzo Nibali leads 2010 Vuelta as Joaquim Rodriguez wins stage 14
Graf von Kageneck is helped into his parachute harness by his ground crew on a Sicilian airfield in May 1941.
Similar feelings also possessed to such a degree all the rest of the Sicilians, that there was no proposal for peace, nor reformation of laws, nor assignation of land, nor reconstitution of government, which they could think well of, unless he lent his aid as a chief architect, to finish and adorn the work, and superadd some touches from his own hand, which might render it pleasing both to God and man. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Efforts on the part of the Sicilians to revolt against the new laws were quickly suppressed, often brutally.
Seasonal Sardinian and Sicilian chestnut roasters were busy in the square, and we had time to reflect on the long journey.
The Sicilian were the only cities which they had ever encountered similar in character to their own,49 having the same democratic institutions and strong in ships, cavalry, and population. The History of the Peloponnesian War
Amidst this revelry the Prince of Bohemia falls headlong in love with the long-lost Sicilian princess.
This epenthesis often shows up even when Sicilians speak Italian.
In the early scenes, the camera loves the family's sun-baked Sicilian estate and Visconti can't help but celebrate the elegance and idleness.
And Sarrasin began to recover his reason and his senses, and, brave as he was, his nerves relaxed when he saw in the instreaming light of the morning -- the electric light had been driven out -- that he was still gripping on to the body of the Sicilian, and that half the wretched Sicilian's head had been blown away. The Dictator
But Willis's easygoing, dancing phrasing warmed up the chamber-sized dimensions of the playing, and once the intonation settled, in time for the bewitching Siciliano of the E-major concerto (BWV 1053), the group began to exude more confidence, and the closing Allegro had a happy brio. Authentication keys
The depictions of birds and flowers were executed in precious materials including lapis lazuli, agate, Sicilian red and green jasper, chalcedony, amethyst and quartz as well as superb hard stones.
Another class of sacred song in exactly the same style as the Sicilian conductus has a text wherein were introduced the closing words of Matins, Lauds, and Vespers: ‘Benedicamus Domino’, ‘Deo gratias’.
It is not the defender of the Sicilians, it is not your accuser, it is not the Segestans, who require this of you; it is he, who has undertaken to presei-ve inviolated the glory of P. Africanus. The two last pleadings of Marcus Tullius Cicero against Caius Verres;
Coral work is usually called Sicilian work, though it was also sometimes executed in Spain. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
These he applied with more zeal than precision, just as an American composer might indiscriminately swap a Sicilian tarantella for a Romagnan saltarello. NYT > Home Page
Some Sicilian starters are: Arancine di riso, deep fried large balls of rice with a bolognaise and peas filling, Polpette di ricotta, fried balls of ricotta cheese, calamari ripieni, calamari stuffed with crumbed bread and fish and cooked in the oven. MyLinkVault Newest Links
But Grandma Biscotti didn't trust Sicilians and looked down on them as social inferiors.
You are invited to choose spaghetti, linguini, fettucini, penne or cellentani and select a topping which included four cheeses and spicy Sicilian sausage.
Nor were schools easily accessible to the larger majority of Sicilians; only the wealthy were able to take advantage of the limited opportunities.
I figured I could use my half-Sicilian heritage as a platform with which to schmooze voters (I also brought my cleats).

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