The donkey has more than 100 other affectionate nicknames in Brazilian Portuguese, including "drought endurer," "reservoir maker" and "earth smoother".
The 2005 was full and berryish, and the 1999 displayed complex truffle and earth aromas, smoothed out by bottle age.
The sensations are Warm-Fire, Wet/cold-Water, Rough-Earth, Smooth-Wind.
The Rio Grande, fat from what New Mexicans optimistically call the "monsoon" rains of late summer snakes steel-blue across the earth in smooth wide curves, edged on either side by the tangle of trees that is the Bosque del Apache.
Agents drag them behind trucks to smooth the cracked earth and check for footprints.
Kurzweil's vision of our super-enhanced future is completely sane and calmly reasoned, and his book should nicely smooth the path for the earth's robot overlords, who, it turns out, will be us.
Diamonds, being the hardest material on earth, provide an extremely thorough exfoliation to smooth, soften and brighten the skin.
"There is simply no way on earth to cut this with something to make it more palatable, no way to smooth it out like vodka".
Dot Earth began five years and 2,000 posts ago as an open exploration of ways to smooth the human journey in a fast-motion century on a finite planet.
Near her, a girl swept the smooth earth with a straw broom.
