The section that follows Lockhart's daughter at the end of her modelling career is a delicious description of a woman helped, yet slightly bored, by the opportunities her beauty presents.The book does have flaws.
In Baum's The Master Key, which was subtitled with a phrase that offers a rather delicious description of Silicon Valley – An Electrical Fairy Tale, Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of Its Devotees – the protagonist is given the magical spectacles by a demon.
The WPA Guide to Massachusetts: The Bay State, published in 1937, offers delicious descriptions of P-town.
If that description sounds delicious, you're in luck!
Avoid using "good", "delicious", or any personal description.
And from the ceremony where a group of guests, sweltering in borrowed robes, were "enthroned" in the mock-medieval "Commanderie de Bordeaux" to the honoring of the guest of all guests, the opera singer Barbara Hendricks, to the over-the-top dinner under tents in the chateau park, Mr. Brook's description is as delicious as the petits fours undoubtedly were.
"A moistness so heavenly!" "I think I detect nutmeg!" "And citrus!" Were all the cries of happiness and praise to be enumerated here, our tale would consist of nothing else but descriptions of a delicious cake for a thousand pages, which would actually be great.
Her description brings to mind another delicious juxtaposition, which she and her peers routinely deliver: smart, sophisticated ideas about dance, delivered in wonderfully seductive packages.
The quiet wit and magic of this book comes out most sharply in its descriptions of food: "The 'something delicious' proved to be weak vinegar-and-water.
All are delicious, but you can choose a vanilla by description or try different varieties until you find your favorite.
