Have you ever read a story that used a word like "sprezzatura?" John McPhee has, and he writes about how writers can irritate their readers by tossing out obscure Italian terms or including random celebrity mentions: "You will never land smoothly on borrowed vividness. If you say someone looks like Tom Cruise — and you let it go at that — you are asking Tom Cruise to do your writing for you. Your description will fail when your reader doesn’t know who Tom Cruise is."
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