Word: fancier
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...longer did sweet meats soothe him. Instead, he took up a beggar’s bowl and walked the North Indian countryside asking those he encountered if they could spare some scraps of food for the Buddha. In the years to come, this wooden bowl would hold nothing fancier than parched rice and lentils. The Buddha’s diet had gone from magnificent to minimalist...
...cast toys in human roles makes a statement,” Carmichael wrote in the original proposal for the production: “Specifically, that humans are toys, that humans are made from stuff no fancier than clay or papier-mache, but because they are animate, because they are imbued with a life force, they therefore wield agency, they therefore propel themselves, they therefore are capable of great acts of cruelty and ambition as well as great acts of bravery and love...
Only the restaurant’s first floor will be open for dinner the rest of this week, but its fancier second floor will start serving on Saturday, coinciding with the Harvard-Yale football game. From then on, the restaurant will be open full time daily, from 11:30 a.m. to midnight...
...would have cost almost twice that. What's there to do? Pretend you're in Paris! Cruise along the river, stroll the old city, practice French and visit exhibitions of late great national painters (in this case, Jean-Paul Riopelle). For that bistro experience try L'Express. Or go fancier with Toque!'s cold cod soup and leg of lamb...
...world of 500 channels, there are more challenges every day. As our sports innovators show with their contributions, the need to run faster, jump higher and test our human limits is matched only by the need for imaginative sports programming and fancier arenas to stage...