It bobs and weaves, feints and jabs: lightly perfumed notes; a fresh, vibrant brightness, reminiscent of loose-leaf tea; a certain malty richness – but it lacks that back-end tannic crunch, that knockout follow-through, that would give it an irresistible heft.
My sous-chef, Cedric Tovar, who's from France, showed me how to braise them: just a little light chicken stock, butter and the floral note from a fresh bay leaf are all that's needed.
"Why are you taking notes?" a fresh-faced young lady asked me alongside the buffet table.
And most buyers negotiate a purchase based on an apartment's condition, he noted, so a fresh new bathroom can potentially put a seller in a stronger position and boost the selling price.
The news from her spring collection, which included the usual array of body-contoured dresses, was the use of thick grosgrain straps with metal hardware along the neckline, which, according her press notes, "reinforces a fresh functionality within the collection".
Her first stop was the Rug Company in SoHo, where she found a floor covering that she thought would feel soft and warm underfoot: the Africa wool rug ($4,725) by Suzanne Sharp, which she noted had a "fresh and modern" pattern with colorful zigzags on an oatmeal-colored background.
Slack exposed the demand for a dead-simple internal communications tool, which has inspired a wave of startups trying to pick apart the rest of a company's daily activities — including Slite, which hopes to take on internal notes with a fresh round of new capital.
He'd never been fat the belly was the product of weak abdominal muscles but the longer I watched and heard his new voice, a note too high, a fresh unnerving boy began to materialize in my old friend's place.
"Those trees in the abbey are of course an echo of gothic vaulting," Mr. Schama said, noting that they brought to Westminster Abbey "a fresh note of dazzling springtime".
Maybe this will help start 2010 on a fresh note".
