Word: savoring
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...short attention span, Chaudhuri offers paragraph-long summaries of each novel at the beginning of the text. Completely eliminating the entertainment value of the plot, this is his way of deterring thrill seekers in search of an action-packed sizzler. He cultivates a reading audience willing to linger and savor the sensations he painstakingly recreates. This is a man in love with language. Each of his sentences is a work of art, making it clear that it's the arrangement of syllables and not the plot that matters to Chaudhuri...
...House of Blues touts its Sunday Gospel Brunch as a "foot-stomping, soul-stirring non-denominational celebration featuring local and national gospel performers." Savor the Southern cuisine presented buffet-style by Chef Michael Monks. Advance tickets are available by calling 497-2229, but walk-ins are welcomed as well...
...that "the popularity of the Adams dining hall enhances the collegial atmosphere there." Gong! Not if you don't know or acknowledge the person who's inches from your left elbow while you savor your baked tofu...
...those who invariably tote around a copy of The Fountainhead--rife with the requisite pithy marginalia--will savor this lecture presented by the Harvard Objectivist Club. Dr. Gary Hull will speak about "Neo-Puritan Assault on Sex and Pleasure"-- offering a wonderfully diametrically alternative to the excessive, hedonistic pleasures of CityStep's Annual Ball. Why would anyone dance the night away in unnecessarily opulent getups when one could consider, instead, "the fusion of Plato, Christianity and Kantian - inspired nihilism"? Gosh...
Sometimes a cigar is just a simile "Whitman is so rich that one must read him like one tastes a fine wine or good cigar--take it in, roll it in your mouth and savor it!" --Letter from Lewinsky to the President...