Exciting exciting exciting.
Sex, for Heyman's characters, can be isolating, tender, exciting, infuriating; sometimes satisfying, sometimes not; sometimes passionately spontaneous, sometimes sweetly mundane, "a little like brushing and flossing, something almost hygienic, good for you".
Partnered with the beautiful Norm Lewis as Porgy, the broken Bess sings "I Loves You Porgy" as though it were a roundelay by turns shameful, exciting, and too tender to be exposed to an audience.
Because they are also tender, delicious, exciting and deeply passionate and involved.
Yet despite such evidence, the government is currently negotiating £4bn of new tenders – "as exciting as outsourcing gets", according to one investment banker – with justice, work and pensions, and Hammond's defence department in the lead.
Veal marsala, while not exciting, had flavor and featured tender meat.
Tender and heartfelt, exciting and bizarre, Patience is interested above all in the stories we tell ourselves about love.
The last was texturally exciting with frisée, crunchy yet tender fried calamari rings and an airy topknot of frizzled carrot threads.
But none of this will matter to readers — for "The Graveyard Book," by turns exciting and witty, sinister and tender, shows Gaiman at the top of his form.
