All the crisps have been bought.
Even the packaging of the disks, all crisp lines and monochromatic fields, is a beautiful exemplar of minimalist style.
The duck skin scratchings, all crisp fat and crunch and salt, made me feel giddy and ashamed at the same time.
A starter — calamari, sweet red pepper and broccoli, all crisped lightly in fresh oil; crabby crab cakes; or savory New England clam chowder — could add $4 to $10 to the check.
On one level, the current President Bush was all crisp decisiveness as he announced the replacement of his Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, with Robert Gates, a former C.I.A. director and the president of Texas A. & M. University.
Or consider the difference between a slim early-season zucchini that's all crisp sweet flesh, versus a more fully grown, later-season specimen that has had a chance to grow fatter.
Where Syro's sonic palette was all crisp pulses and algorithmic wiggles, here Richard D James clambers all over a piano: there are cleanly pretty études, but also detuned plinks, twanging strings, and echoing thuds on the instrument's body.
They included "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "A Hard Day's Night," "Help!" "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out" — all crisp and ringingly energetic recordings that were increasingly experimental.
Once cut down to size, these vegetable leviathans emerged as a mellow oven dish, immersed in a simple white sauce to accompany a roast shoulder of lamb, all crisp of skin and sweet pink meat within.
