Your very balanced editorial (24 March) suggests that, on the whole, the people of Singapore are grateful to Lee Kuan Yew for a clean, intensely ordered state dedicated to economic growth in an American-style city of towers.
It can't be said that he was ready, this athletic, clean-living, intensely aware man, with so many books still in him.
Steak tartare came with XO sauce to up the umami factor, radishes the right side of sharp, and raw sea scallops, which were unsettling and intensely fishy yet also clean and beguiling in a way that raw beef could never be.
Houseplants with many small leaves, such as nerve plants, would be intensely time-consuming to clean leaf-by-leaf.
Any number of fellow-students wanted to paint O'Keeffe, whose strong, clean features and intensely expressive hands and eyes would so fascinate Stieglitz a few years later.
His new collection, Tenth of December, is funny, poignant – in flashes, deeply moving – light as a feather, and consistently weird in the way that the suburbs are weird, which is to say quietly but intensely, under a surface as clean and bright as a newly waxed car.
Some portions will burn lightly and some acreage will burn so intensely that it is wiped clean of vegetation.
Furthermore, reduced access to water increases the energy consumption of the water supply, as it needs to transport water further, clean it more intensely etc.
Because spacecraft have no opportunity for flight testing, an intensely detailed acceptance checkout is handled in the clean room by automatic test equipment.
