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But starchy?

Van Sant wants to tell the political story accurately and in detail, but "Milk" is anything but starchy.

That theme jostled against snatches of vocal melodies and guitar riffs in a lively but starchy modernist matrix.

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Imagine, if you will, a very stiff, heavy pudding, but more starchy and elastic - a giant gnocchi, perhaps.

The resulting dish is delicious, thanks to garlic and anchovies, but uniformly starchy and a bit lacking in textural and flavor contrast.

The frying in oil is not so bad, but the starchy potatoes that make the best latkes are not so great.

The substance itself is probably no more potent than the carcinogenic aromatic hydrocarbons formed by grilling or frying meat, the organizations said, but because starchy foods are such a prevalent part of most diets, "the intake levels for acrylamide are likely to be higher".

What I came up with has all the merits of gnocchi -- starchy but light, chewy but delicate -- but goes better with my Asian-influenced main courses.

But a starchier-than-thou power sickens the soul.

The sheets were new and starchy, but not unpleasantly so.

Jerusalem artichoke, a knobby, bulbous root, is starchy but sweet and almost fruity.

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