("Her brown eyes," he wrote, "were pools of empathy evolved through a thousand generations of what was good and decent in the history of the human race").
Serious cooks regard these members of the dining public — and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans — as enemies of everything that's good and decent in the human spirit.
That journey through the Californian desert to find fame and fortune, stocked up with "two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-coloured uppers", was also, Mr Thompson claimed, "a classic confirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character".
No-holds-barred carnivores, for example, may share the view of Anthony Bourdain, who wrote in his book "Kitchen Confidential" that "vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit".
"The last thing I want is the kind of food I've been cooking all day," he said, somewhere between rants about his hatred of vegetarians ("Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit," he writes in his book), the chef Emeril Lagasse and the unseemly concept of brunch.
It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character.
"They have the best numbers in film, improving numbers in music and decent numbers in the cable business," says Mark.
He showed off a strong throwing arm and decent range in the outfield, the result, perhaps, of his increased emphasis on conditioning.
There is also fine food at the Michelin-starred Teufelhof, or Devil's Courtyard, and decent food in the courtyard of Au Violon and on the Rhine at the Hotel Krafft.
What they did was to slander a people who were among the bravest and most decent in the world during World War II.
But Putin was one of the more honest and decent people in the St . Petersburggovernment".
