Fragrant and sharp, it does like sugar and makes a brilliant alternative to apple in many baked desserts.
Asked whether the National party would back away from its support of interest subsidies in the light of Hockey's comments, Langhorne said: "The party isn't and one wouldn't expect the parliamentary party to either unless they can come up with a brilliant alternative, and there hasn't been one yet".
It opens up the possibility of a brilliant alternative telling of Thoreau's story, where he sets off into the woods, bottles it, and starts sneaking back home each night while faking the rest of his experience.
Green tea is a brilliant alternative to coffee and other drinks that are commonly consumed.
A brilliant choice, chaps.
Keep a calendar, she advises – too late, alas, for those of us who have never come across this brilliant alternative to tying knots in a hanky – chop onions at the weekend, stock up on birthday cards, find a good plumber, make lists.
Last but by no means least, film-maker and VJ David Wilson has put together the brilliant Alternative Advent Calendar project at altadvent.tumblr.com.
It is encouraging to watch independent developers such as Chung develop a style so uniquely his own in Quadrilateral Cowboy; not only resistant to some of the standards of AAA, but often offering successful and brilliant alternatives to tired industry aesthetics.
Early influences included his thesis supervisor, Harry Thorpe, who researched past landscapes using traditional scholarship; Philip Rahtz, a brilliant digger leading an alternative lifestyle; Trevor Rowley, another geographer turning towards archaeology; and Philip Barker, an excavator of legendary sensitivity, and a leader in adult education.
The trope of double-identity becomes a brilliant meditation on choices and alternative lives, on the presence of death which forces these choices on us, and on the terrible demands which art can make - if we choose to let it.
His virtual candidacy could make certain members of the main centre-right block, the European People's Party, hesitate this week, who are currently bracing themselves to vote for Mr Barroso, for lack of an alternative".Voilà, a brilliant French political strike, two days before the crucial vote.
