Gossip, certainly; revelations and characters, yes; wit, please; a whiff of nostalgia, perhaps.
The image itself – although widely parodied on social media – is pleasing enough, with a nostalgic, winter-of-discontent whiff about it.
Dime bag or nug, I'll lie on the carpet And smoke my spliff, or in sooth just a roach, For Anne is full vexed: "Lay off, please, stop it!" One whiff of ganj and anon she'll encroach.
To call the decade "the aughts" is a compromise that pleases no one, and that has more than a whiff of resigned settling about it.
There is a whiff of the creative writing course - a hint that these neat tales have been crafted to please a teacher rather than to delight a reader.
Rocco's, because it sits at the base of a residential building, must also please the building's owner, whose agent, a fussy, humorless man, cannot stand the idea that the tenants might catch a whiff of tomato sauce.
"Please, please, please... .. "Down".
"Dad, please, please, please".
"Please, please, please, please, please, please call me.
