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Vernazza and Manarola are often considered the prima donnas of Cinque Terre, but Monterosso al Mare wins for personality, with the most to offer visitors from where to bed down to local wining and family-run dining.
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Kasia Dietz, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2023
Bertolucci fans beware: The director comes across here as a pompous and careless prima donna.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Maui Sunrise: Roses have a prima donna reputation as high-maintenance water hogs, but Andy Klittich, manager of Otto & Sons Nursery in Fillmore (open to the public), says that’s a bad rap.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
Some might call it retrograde for a work from 1996, but its indebtedness to Puccini suits a story about a wistful prima donna in the early nineteen-hundreds.
—Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
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Kasia Dietz, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2023
Bertolucci fans beware: The director comes across here as a pompous and careless prima donna.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Maui Sunrise: Roses have a prima donna reputation as high-maintenance water hogs, but Andy Klittich, manager of Otto & Sons Nursery in Fillmore (open to the public), says that’s a bad rap.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
Some might call it retrograde for a work from 1996, but its indebtedness to Puccini suits a story about a wistful prima donna in the early nineteen-hundreds.
—Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
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“Prima donna.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prima%20donna. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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