It has gas pumps, wireless Internet and flat-screen televisions in a small cafe, a drive-through pharmacy and an expansive delicatessen that offers sushi, rotisserie chickens and ready-to-heat dinners.
Near the end of the book, after a "house-heating" dinner party he throws for himself — on the verge, unbeknownst to him, of getting fired — he begins doing the dishes, taking special care with an aquamarine glass bowl, a gift from his ex-wife's artist son, that is his talisman of security and success: Its resonant flint glass emitted a sound full of muffed mellowness as it settled down to soak.
All these objects talk to each other keeping you safe, turning out your lights, heating your dinner, monitoring your health, and washing your clothes.
Denominators go home from the subway station, heat up dinner, and watch "The Strain".
Denominators go home from the subway station, heat up dinner, and watch "The Strain". The numerator persists.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — After the shish kebab and blueberry pie, as dusk calmed the Lowcountry heat, the dinner guests gathered around Park Dougherty's table prepared to sing.
I had gone into the project imagining myself preparing vast quantities of cheap, nutritious soups and stews, which I would freeze and heat for dinner each day.
Sometimes she does something non-medical that needs to be done, which is the hospice way — she might sweep a floor, she might heat up dinner.
I think if I had just been hanging around doing television shows and playing those characters who say things like, 'Eat your dinner, boy,' I wouldn't have been in the same place artistically to do a role like Sara".
At the catering company where she works as a chef, she cooks on high-tech ranges with thousands of B.T.U.'s; then she goes home to heat up dinner in a 1935 Detroit Jewel.
