The new restaurant is filled with diners picking their way analytically through Mr. Dufresne's small but rigorous menu, questioning the waiters about this spice or that herb, chasing down fugitive flavors with the single-mindedness of an insurance investigator.
Lyrical, lilting, full of rainfall and starlight (the title refers to the motion of constellations across the heavens), it is nevertheless refreshingly rigorous: curious, questioning, and shot through with mordant humour.
"In the opinion of the [FSA] Review Team," the report said, "it is very difficult to reconcile this approach with the degree of rigorous testing, questioning and challenge that would be expected of an effective board process in dealing with such a large and strategic proposition".
Mrs. Kirchner conducted a carefully orchestrated campaign heavy on international diplomacy but light on opportunities for rigorous press questioning or debates with her rivals.
Both Mr Swift and the Welsh government's Counsel General, Theo Huckle QC were subjected to rigorous, forensic questioning by each of the judges, headed by the president of the court, Lord Neuberger.
