It is as much a feeling as a taste, and is described variously as "mouthfulness", "thickness" and "heartiness".
The food nearly gets five stars for invention, polish and presentation; and the sausage-and-beefburger heartiness that robs it of top billing is, paradoxically, one of its great attractions.
The menu got us both excited; beautifully written, it promises heartiness and autumnal comfort.
The film is famously gappy (the real-life reasons remain a mystery), but it's nonetheless a sly and raunchy glimpse of the resentment and aggression beneath the French populace's back-slapping heartiness.
Such calorie-laden heartiness can be welcome, especially with the onset of winter, but elsewhere Hamilton demonstrates a more interesting talent for subtle flavors and unusual combinations.
The writer-director, Craig Brewer, lovingly depicts the heartiness of country ways, but he is after something bigger than reality, and his quasi-mythological churnings boil down to this: messed-up white people depend on pious, soulful black folk to make them whole again.
The heartiness of his approach infuses this by-now-classical device with new life.
"Hello, Gerard," I said, trying to work as much heartiness into my voice as I could.
Hughes's text allowed him only to be "big and strong" and to have "a bluff off-hand manner, which passed for heartiness, and considerable powers of being pleasant when he liked".
"Bernie" has wit, heart, and humor, and Linklater looks with tenderness on the places and the people he films — townspeople as well as dramatis personae — but he sees clearly that, for all its heartiness, Carthage, Texas, is one tough place, where the tight human bonds are held together by an unexpressed violence.
