He begins this dense, often provocative book, for example, with an account of a young girl in Papua New Guinea who grew ill after consuming parts of her grandmother's brain in a funerary rite.
The cast formed a tight circle and began a dense melody that started low and rose upward in stages so that by the last note, you felt both ends of the scale.
Walking to the small jetty, it was difficult to see where the posada's four acres of gardens ended and the water began, so dense was the covering of aguape and irupé: water hyacinths and lilies.
Compared with banquet-hall rodízios, which may serve as many as 20 cuts of meat, Girassol's selection of a half-dozen may seem paltry, but it is satisfying, beginning with dense pork sausages and crisp, juicy grilled chicken legs.
Born under the Third Reich, Uwe Johnson began this dense, bustling and surprisingly playful magnum opus in 1966, having left East Germany with his family for the United States; it wasn't completed until 1983, a year before his death, by which time his marriage had broken down and he was living alone in the island town of Sheerness, in Kent.
The battle began in dense fog at 4 20 am on 8 August 1918.
The fruit bodies begin from dense, black mycelium on the surface of oak branches in contact with the ground.
It begins with a dense, weighty chord that slowly fractures or, to borrow a cinematic term, dissolves.
My version begins by seasoning a dense, sweet fish like Chilean sea bass with Chinese black bean paste, which is sharp and salty.
The tremble with which Ms. Moore's "Sensitive Spot" (2007) begins soon yields to dense, violent poundings before the piece ends with twinkling in the piano's upper reaches.
