Instead of each spoonful automatically combining all the ingredients of, say, a stew, with this assemblage of distinct pieces, you get to pick what to taste and when.
Honestly though, the 2014-15 Celtics are looking less like a basketball team and more of a loose assemblage of complimentary pieces, likely trade bait and flotsam.
That it is an assemblage of various pieces actually plays to Miéville's strengths: the apprehension of social fragmentation and somatic alienation through an endlessly fertile, monstrously inventive imagination.
The centerpiece of the collection is an amazing assemblage of single-piece slab tables made of wood gathered from Indonesia, Malaysia and elsewhere across the South China Sea.
Pieced together from a carnivalesque assemblage of spoken word pieces, scraps of noise, and non-repetitive song structures, the record deals with themes of illness and embodiment.
He said books are most often rejected because they lack originality, are really "packaged assemblages of smaller pieces" or are "simplistic red-meat rants". This same process now applies to books by Times authors.
2. Many books aren't really books at all, but rather packaged assemblages of smaller pieces – articles or columns or occasional essays; slapping them together doesn't make for a book unless there's a unifying argument or theme or unless the anthology presents an established writer's work over a long period of time.
Much of his later work seems to be re-assemblages of previous pieces, and one might wonder whether his "recognizable style" is more a function of images he repurposed for his own self-preservation, particularly when his entire oeuvre is examined.
Also made of wood is Harry Gordon's "Popper" (2004), a grandiose assemblage of white oak pieces carved into a single large popcorn-kernel shape.
A great artist, she is represented by a dramatically marvelous assemblage of detailed, plaited pieces of copper and lead in old iron archive boxes filled with layers of beeswax.
