Face to face with the piquant personality that had charmed de Gaulle, he was charmed as well. |
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Compact and slightly piquant, this cheese has assertive smoky aroma and flavor with a pleasant butteriness on the finish. |
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Delivering six full songs and other song fragments, her penetrating chest voice and her haunting ornaments in piquant modes were simply stunning. |
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The spinach soup had a deep, dark colour, and was flavoured with the strong, piquant, earthy spices of Kerala. |
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These days, between posting his piquant views on the latest toonery, he rails against the aspersions still being spittled on the medium. |
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Astonishing action set pieces serve as punctuation marks for a piquant romantic melodrama in Zhang Yimou's second effort in the wuxia genre. |
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An uncomplicated salad of arugula and manchego shimmers in its piquant quince dressing. |
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The duck was lovely and the pork, apricot and Stilton stuffing gave a piquant twist to the flavour. |
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Stocking four flavors of dishy, piquant womanhood, it treated the audience to one tasty conundrum after another. |
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The duck was very pleasant and the sauce piquant, as orange sauces should be. |
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They brought back piquantly appropriate or delusive answers, piquant enough to condemn the stories. |
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Not only is the flavouring piquant but the structure of the movements and the material in development sturdy and, for us, rewarding to absorb. |
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This sauce, usually made with herbs and peppercorns, isn't spicy but loans a piquant, peppery flavour to the tender morsels of chicken. |
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These cookies may look down-home, but with a kick of pungent molasses and piquant ginger, they're really very sophisticated. |
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I've had this several times before and it has always been superb, a tasty combination of sweet and piquant flavours. |
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Both cheeses deliver a rich, piquant taste, and each is also offered in a variety of sizes and forms. |
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Mezzaluna ravioli hosts the piquant gaminess of braised rabbit, unhistrionically set against roasted parsnips, a quick blast of mint, and tomato. |
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Perhaps the most piquant recent occult comparisons have come in more subtle and complex shades. |
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Madame judged her fish as excellent and the potato salad was piquant and very tasty. |
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It consists of large, wall-painted versions of his witty or piquant statements, realised in a variety of typefaces and colours. |
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As could be expected, Newman editorialized in NewsNotes with characteristically tangy opinions, sharp observations, and piquant commentary. |
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Milton Hatoum transports us to a magical boomtown, full of shimmering light, tropical colour and piquant incident. |
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Because self-improvement tastes best with a piquant little sprinkle of something self-defeating on top. |
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However, despite the pain and fearful reactions by some, it is possible to create and balance flavors in piquant foods. |
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The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy was given a piquant performance, proving itself a wonderful display piece for a grand pipe organ. |
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The salmon came with finely chopped egg and a sharp piquant sauce with horseradish base and was simply excellent. |
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The New England clam chowder is pleasantly piquant and peppery. |
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And pot smoke lends a piquant tinge to the smell of fetid sweat. |
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Assorted breads, piquant sauces and fine African wines accompany it. |
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They add a sharp, pungent flavour to dishes with a piquant base. |
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It had a piquant flavour all its own and really made the dish. |
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Herbs and spices add a piquant taste that ketchup can't match. |
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All in all, this is a good middle of the road recording whose flavoring is more sweet than piquant, and whose intention is more to please than to inspire. |
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I would never have thought of deep-frying an avocado, but the result was certainly good, and the chilli jam was perfectly piquant without frazzling the tastebuds. |
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This was a divine combination, the piquant, smoky butter oozing into the juices, the dish nicely finished off with some thin root vegetables crisps and crunchy chard. |
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Gyllenhaal parses every piquant note of Terry's paradoxical nature, keeping his danger and his decency in balance. |
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So elegant foie gras is offset by the spartan clarity of white asparagus one night, and more glamorously contrasted with piquant papaya, mango, and peppers the next. |
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The taste is mildly acidic, non-salty or slightly salty, creamy and fairly dry, with the red cheeses being stronger and more piquant. |
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The product's defining characteristic features are its succulence after being cooked and the mildly piquant taste that the paprika imparts. |
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And it will introduce a piquant new ingredient into the constituency party re-elections on which Labour is embarking after the boundary review. |
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In a piquant coincidence, his colleague in charge of justice policy, Franco Frattini, is Italian. So it always goes. |
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This is unlikely to command space in the business pages of The Economist. An especially piquant example of the genre does merit some mention. |
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For local flavours, the piquant sauce called mojo is important. |
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This cheese usually has tangy, piquant, spicy and peppery flavor. |
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A clever combination of flavours brought the ascent from the salty sea flavour of caviar through to piquant dill and the warmness of chives with cream. |
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There's lush slabs of slow-roasted pork belly and meltingly tender duck legs, a piquant escabeche of red mullet and a truly remarkable lemon tart to finish. |
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It is an indelible part of his CV, a blot on a distinguished public career, a piquant episode for the more mischievous obituarists eventually to recount. |
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A couple of years before, he had applied his special broth of piquant newspaperese to the pages of Spin magazine. |
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Connoisseurs of traditional Hungarian cuisine delight in its range of piquant flavours and aromas, and dishes which are spicy and often rather heavy going. |
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An Evans session at a night club had an almost reverential air, as the rapt audience leaned forward to catch every delicate note, each piquant voicing that distinguished a refinement unique in jazz. |
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The slightly bitter and piquant taste is attributed to the small addition of the koroneiki variety to the final product and is due to the phenolic substances contained in the olives at harvest time. |
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And there is something piquant about a man who is at once an omnivorous roamer of the world's knowledge and literatures, and a little Welsh provincial. |
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It can be combined with rich dairy-based sauces and piquant herbs and still remain de antly crabby. |
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The cheese is very smooth, fairly soft and has a mildly piquant flavor that can become quite pungent with regular washings. Munster is dark yellow with a strong flavor. |
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Surveyed in depth for the first time in the United States, his forty-year career comes off as a resounding hosanna of piquant, good, and great paintings, with something for everyone. |
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The first has the audacity to use piquant, scurrying ninths as though they were octaves, and the second is a slow-motion pæan to the aristocracy of the seventh. |
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On the contrary, it seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket. |
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The leader, called the shantyman, was appreciated for his piquant language, lyrical wit, and strong voice. |
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Gibbon's work has been praised for its style, its piquant epigrams and its effective irony. |
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She virtually ate with gusto just about every bar of Tchaikovsky's violin concerto in D major, lacing it with a piquant, gipsyish air. |
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All are touched by her sense of wonder and marvel at her beautifully detailed paintings of wide-eyed children, ethereal angels, elusive fairies and piquant pixies, richly dressed in brilliant colors. |
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Gibbon's work has been praised for its style, his piquant epigrams and its effective irony. |
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The piquant mixture of strings, celeste and harp captured Ravel's faux-oriental harmonies and in Beauty and the Beast the latter galumphed menacingly. |
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Pork Chops with Apple and Port These chops are baked in a piquant sauce containing fruit, honey, cinnamon, lemon and port, all of which reduces to a spicy syrup. |
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A recently popular variety is the Akived, a piquant drink served cold. |
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