Room service is the only option as meals are taken in your suite, which is well-stocked with a decent selection of refreshingly reasonably priced full-size bottles of spirits, liqueurs and wine; treats and soft drinks, too.
This was part of his appeal — "There is something singularly and refreshingly free, spacious, amiable, hearty and decent about him," H. L. Mencken once wrote — and also part of his undoing.
When you can get very good sauvignon blanc from Chile and South Africa for under £7, it's a bit of a jump to go over a tenner (the minimum for decent bacchus) if all you're after is a refreshingly aromatic, unoaked dry white.
Her novel is refreshingly ambitious in its intellectual scope, and in Oufoula, who's a decent, thoughtful man, she's created a persuasive, sometimes deeply moving character, a man who remains haunted by his early betrayal by his mother, who left him and his father for another man.
Working as his own cinematographer and editor, Sheffield shows some solid command of his craft and gets decent performances from a cast of unknowns, who all have a refreshingly non-Hollywood presence — even when they're stuck in silly "super assassin" masks and costumes looking like they're headed to a Halloween party.
Song attendants, by contrast, pass out menus and take orders; you have to pay for the food ($7, for example, for a decent Asian chicken salad), but you feel more than compensated just by the refreshingly human quality of the transaction.
See, refreshingly simple.
It was refreshingly realistic.
THE BILL Refreshingly affordable.
