| That's why I prefer a sweet, smooth, rounded ruby port wine with chocolate, rather than a bracingly intense wine, like Cabernet or Zinfandel. |
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| In both, tightly cropped portraits of historical and cultural figures stare out bracingly from vigorously painted encaustic surfaces. |
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| These crisp, bracingly acidic white wines can be terrific with food, but they also can be too herbaceous for many wine aficionados. |
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| But Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgia's president, as bracingly frank about the Kremlin as he is about his own country's failings, has his doubts. |
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| The breeze was soft, but bracingly cool, and the deep blue of the sky was checkered with a high cirrocumulus web, glinting golden and magenta in the glancing sunlight. |
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| Better still, Kill Your Friends, despite its 1997 setting, feels bracingly, cathartically, of the moment. |
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| The film's broad smiles and big-heartedness are bracingly disingenuous, the self-referential jokes well handled. |
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| There is something bracingly unbookish about the Mexican writer Yuri Herrera's two short novels. |
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| They do not see comprehensive schools as bracingly educative introductions to the real world, but ghastly, rough places where their nice, studious children will be distracted and bullied. Yet the battle lines are blurring. |
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| Instead, the real-life Freitag laughs, smiles, and is bracingly candid. |
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| For a counterpoint to its molar-tingling sweetness, you might try a glass of doogh, the Persian yogurt drink, bracingly tart with a high note of dill. |
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