Example sentences for: delectable

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  • The critics gripe a bit but still give a standing ovation to Mike Leigh's ( Secrets and Lies ) new film, about a short span in the lives and work of Gilbert and Sullivan as they compose and stage The Mikado . "Only a lunatic would call Topsy-Turvy , with its lame first hour and host of loose ends, a masterpiece, but by the finale I was ready to have myself committed" (David Edelstein, Slate ). It's "one of those films that create a mix of erudition, pageantry and delectable acting opportunities, much as Shakespeare in Love did last year," and it "vigorously and amusingly explore[s] what it means for an artist to renew his energies by returning to square one" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Several note its slow start and general disorganization: "[I]t teases us with the feeling that Leigh had a basic plan for the picture and never realized it" (Stanley Kauffmann, the New Republic ). (Click to read the rest of Edelstein's review in

  • Since Arianna Huffington floated the idea of a Warren Beatty presidential campaign last week, the actor's ambitions have been the summer's most delectable political story.

  • Keep an eye peeled on the right side of the road for the delectable modernista pastry shop, Escribà (Antiga Casa Figueres), its fanciful swirls on the outside a match for the delicacies within.

  • At the supermarket, I stared for a long time at the delectable dark green foliage and deep red stem and spine of Swiss chard.

  • And it's the kindergarten straightforwardness of the images that makes the obscenities so delectable: The "shits" and "fucks" rush out of these characters' mouths at hyperspeed, always a beat faster than you expect.


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