Sentence examples for description of drinks from inspiring English sources

The accumulation of endless details, repetition, literary allusion, description — of drinks, nature, memories, conversations, observations, ways taken and not taken — creates a mesmerizing, irregularly regular pattern, which is iterated and reiterated, taking us as close to the ups and downs of a day of the dead as the living are likely to get: The Consul dropped his eyes at last.

YES/NO 7. Description of drink brought today to school, specifying: WATER/SWEETENED SOFT DRINK/OTHER (specify if "other") 8. How many times a day do you usually brush your teeth?

Mr. Burr, the addiction counselor, tsk-tsked upon hearing descriptions of drinks with maple syrup, Cognac and muddled bananas.

The religiously efficient Hemingway didn't bother wasting his terse lyricism on descriptions of drinks, usually just listing the kinds and quantities instead.

Or this description of a first drink: "They were nearing the end of their first round, which they always drank more quickly than those that followed, and which they hardly felt except in the way one feels the looseness in a boat that has been untied from its mooring but has not yet left it".

Even if you've never blacked out, Hepola's description of how she drank with her girlfriends – of wine being the "social glue" that held them together, of a bottle on the table as "a byword for 'let's have a difficult conversation'" – will ring true.

Boyd would appear to know his Vienna well and in the insistent clutter of description – clothes, drinks, meals, interiors, street scenes, nothing escapes – there is a faint echo of Joseph Roth in The Radetzky March, the great eve-of-disaster Austrian novel in which the accumulation of period detail helps create an atmosphere so stifling the thunder has to strike.

Descriptions of food consumed and of drinks drunk, amid flourishes of cosmopolitan connoisseurship, are frequent in Mutis, even as the ascetic Maqroll goes hungry.

That is Bonnie Angelo's description of how to eat and drink while standing up at a cocktail buffet.

On a little chalkboard beneath the usual selection was a description of the night's novelty drink, just for us: STATE OF THE UNION SPECIAL THE EXECUTIVE ORDER Campari, Gin, Mango, Apple Cider The "O" in "Order" was drawn to resemble the famous Obama logo.

Equally joyful descriptions of meals and drinks had to be pared back in case they gave the impression that I lived in a restaurant and occasionally went home to change my shirt.