“I feel a bit like a character in a Graham Greene novel – slightly dissolute, dessicated by the sun, jaundiced from too much cerveja and cachaça.”

“After distillation, only a dark brown tar dessicated by heat is left becoming hard and brittle.”

“Patrick Malahide's Claudius is a shade too dessicated to be an ideal Claudius and David Calder's Polonius was badly affected on the first night by laryngitis.”