"Ask her!" The sushi is almost uniformly superb — yellowtail given heat and crunch by a sliver of jalapeño, a roll of lobster and avocado luxuriously subtle.
But El Duque was almost as superb in yielding four hits in eight innings and reminding the Yankees of the past as they pondered the future.
Written in (almost) unfailingly superb English, they retain their appeal mostly because they display a sort of romantic Toryism and traditionalism, with its guarded attitude toward commerce and capitalism, and yet contain a celebration of American individualism.
Arresting from the get-go, the performances in this limited series are almost uniformly superb (with one glaring exception), and dealing with a true story imposes a level of discipline and restraint on producer Ryan Murphy and his collaborators that's become a rarity in his other shows.
A similar fish assortment went into Fish Cellar soup, only here the chunks bobbed in superb, almost sheer broth.
4th over: Pakistan 26-0 (chasing 139; Akmal 17, Shahzaib 8) Shahzaib, under pressure after scoring just 1 from his first 7 deliveries, slaps Udana miles in the air and Mathews, running back from cover, almost takes a superb diving catch.
Anelka then almost scored a superb individual goal when his piledriver struck the bar and with 14 minutes remaining Ramires scored his second, cutting inside Williams before slotting past Vorm.
Its business model is superb: Almost all of the wireless infrastructure and wireless handset vendors have signed licensing agreements with Qualcomm for use of its intellectual properties, and its chip division shipped, in the second quarter of 2002 alone, more than 14 million CDMA chipsets that will end up in infrastructure and handsets.
It was a superb triumph, almost matching their Ashes win in Australia two years ago.
"It's an almost immeasurable treasure, a superb example of careful, connoisseur-based collecting," he said.
