senza riserve

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “without reserves”. Compare French sans réserve.

Prepositional phrase

senza riserve

1. without reserve, without question
   • 2013, chapter 3, in F. Scott Fitzgerald, translated by Ferruccio Russo, Il Grande Gatsby [The Great Gatsby], Edizioni Scientifiche e Artistiche, page 81:

     Avrei potuto accettare, senza riserve, che Gatsby fosse venuto fuori dalle paludi della Louisiana o dal Lower Est Side di New York.

     I would have accepted without question the information that Gatsby sprang from the swamps of Louisiana or from the lower East Side of New York.

     (literally, “I could have accepted, without reserve, that Gatsby had come from the swamps of Louisiana or from the lower Esat Side of New York.”)

2. unconditional

   amore senza riserve ― unconditional love