Word: piquant
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...nonexistent. Micaela is an interesting bit part; despite her fragility, she feigns strength in her aria in the third act. Hahn had the fragility but showed no strength. Playing Zuniga and Micaela with such vapidness, Danielowich and Hahn undermined the aesthetic contributions of these characters to the opera. Piquant roles too easily become inconsequential...
...showdown of the war. Whoever won here might well claim victory overall"). And there is a woeful shortage of analysis. Significantly, one element of The Civil War that the Kunhardts did not copy was the use of historians to provide onscreen commentary. They are missed. We get plenty of piquant details about Lincoln's personal life -- his fits of depression, his estrangement from his ( father, his big feet -- but virtually no attempt to relate these to his public life, or to explain the qualities that made him a great President...
...space, a few day tourists were examining the presented works with quizzical glances; in search of stability, I did the same. My chosen spectacle was a scalding, large picture of the sea. Huge splashes of thick blue paint covered the canvas, rearing out in small pinnacles, and returning into piquant troughs. My expression of bewilderment drew the shop owner--a frail foetus by appearance, in fact a middle-aged man--who collected his phlegm with a unappealing gurgle...
Television graphics are really the images which will anchor the 20th century in human history. CNN presented a piquant montage of flying insignia and colliding stars, all to the swirling depths of epic music. Interactive media reached its apogee in exit poll analysis in one broadcast, as sturdy colored columns thrust out of the presenter's table to represent voters' wishes. "Now, Diane, do we have a breakdown of veterans from the Korean as opposed to Vietnam wars?" Pollsters' minutiae assailed the retina, with columns, forecasts and maps pulsating in all directions, quite inexplicably, yet invoked in deadly serious tones...
...most popular pepper is the innocuous bell, followed by the pimento, used in making paprika and stuffing olives, and the green jalapeno, common in nachos and green salsas. Chile connoisseurs also extol the virtues of such lesser-known varieties as the smoky chipotle, the fleshy red- brown poblano, the piquant pequin and the sweet-tasting habanero, which is famed, perhaps notorious, for its pure, blazing fire. In New Mexico, the chile-growing capital of the U.S., the longish local variety is often served stuffed with cheese or as a topping for hamburgers and pizza...