The bonbons and bars here are punched up with chili, salt, fennel or even single-malt Scotch.
They are punched up with contemporary color combinations -- say, red and marigold yellow, or pink and magenta.
The traditional bistro menu, offering steak frites, escargots and onion soup, is punched up with bursts of culinary enthusiasm.
Each camera can be punched up with a control box and panned 360 degrees, tilted and zoomed enough to see a license plate.
These tiny, pale, mellow eggs are punched up by flavors like ginger and wasabi and sell for $16 for two ounces.
Tim Thyzel's "Corporate Sculptures," made of office construction materials and self-illuminated with light bulbs, have potential, but they need to be punched up a bit, twisted somehow.
But as with many things, if made from scratch, a good cream of mushroom soup is both attainable and delicious, especially if the flavor is punched up with wild mushrooms, browned onions and parsnip.
The entertainment values of the lecture circuit were punched up considerably when Martin and Osa Johnson hit mining camps, warehouses and theaters with their vaudeville take on adventure in the 1920s and '30s.
Limping gags are punched up with incessant use of the penny whistle; barely a scene passes without someone having a flowerpot or bottle smashed over their head, or – introducing a more exotic note – a coconut slammed into their unmentionables.
With a dozen buff dancers and retina-scorching staging, even the minor tracks are punched up into stand-alone blockbusters, though Swift herself remains the most impressive indoor firework.
