Word: flavoured
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...daughter of a tattoo artist who destroys their connubial bliss by insisting her portrait be pricekd indelibly on her husband's left breast--these delightful details are merely the sauce of morbidity and unreality with which the main dish is seasoned, in order to increase the intensity of its flavour and heighton the effect of the final bitter, climax. The story ends: "Choster turned then and run down the brick walk and when he reached the road he continued to run borno along by the force of the wind faster and faster. His face was twisted with pain...
...Henry the Eighth," this week's full course at the University, has chosen to concentrate its attention on Henry as a husband; it possesses none of the political flavour of Mr. Arliss' Disraeli. There are, of course, occasional parentheses on foreign policy, but they are pretty half-hearted parentheses, and Mr. Laughton feels with the audience that he had better get on to his business. Each of the six queens is dutifully trotted out, and as some of them were in real life fascinating and unfascinating and some unfascinating, so are they in the picture. But there is neither...
...least part of the durability of a diamond bracelet, which, as Lorelei Lee remarked in a wisecrack which has since been heard around the world, will last forever. Altogether, in its slyly sympathetic exposition of gold-digging as a fine art, the picture has precisely the delicious flavour of its literary model...
Well do I remember a couple of hours spent one morning in that study, when each of us ought to have been at work at something else, so that our conversation enjoyed the added flavour which goes with forbidden fruit. It began with Ulrich von Hutten; I have forgotten where it ended. In those two hours of conversation I learned more about medical history and more about the persistence of certain queer traits in human nature than could be got from months of study by the most approved method of research. What he said was like Smollett and Gibbon: Smollett...
...plank man has so impudently presumed to assail,-the movement which would tumble woman from her reverential pedestal to the same gross level of Masculinism. But man can take his comfort in the fact that nicotine stains on the fingers that get his breakfast will not measurably affect its flavour. And as for woman: from the Saint Regis to the Pre "Cat" she may forever puff her "scented" in peace...