It could serve as a first course, but to miss some of the appetizers would be a pity, particularly one as delectable as warm potato "lasagna," a brilliant layering of potato, goat cheese and wild mushrooms moistened with a reduction of port.
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) is a brilliant, sprawling, layered and unsentimental portrayal of contemporary China.
The drama is set in Zurich in 1917, and, amid Stoppard's layered, brilliant verbal erudition, it defends the purpose of art as an activity that can grant a sliver of immortality.
When the corrupt judge appears, Johnson writes, "Even in his wheelchair the man gave an impression of height, some of it established by his coiffure — brilliant, silver-white, layered like a toupee, which plainly it wasn't, as Gambol had his fingers tangled in it, pulling the man's head backward in his wheelchair to prevent him fixing the buttons of his shirt".
Pre-Columbian Central American cultures treated alloys of gold and copper with acid, to obtain a thin layer of brilliant, pure gold on the surface.
A few years before he ever became a darker and more brutal James Bond, Daniel Craig starred in a brilliant film entitled, The Layer Cake.
They performed measurements on a thin Brilliant Cresyl Blue (BCB) layer and a C60 thin film that was drop-coated onto a glass substrate using both a metalized AFM probe and an electrochemically etched gold metal wire.
No one is more brilliant at conveying the layers of a character than Lori Myers.
No one is more brilliant at conveying the layers of a character than Myers.
