Sentence examples for scant taste from inspiring English sources

The striped bass Provençal ($18), however, was ordinary and a bouillabaisse of spring vegetables ($14) yielded scant taste.

The agreements were resisted by many Eastern believers, who had scant taste for ecumenism; and, in the event, no significant help came.

Less memorable is the soupy, milky cardamon-touched rice pudding and an off the menu offering of pistachio ice cream crowned with crisp, thin white noodles that yielded scant taste.

The most successful mother in Gombe, the legendary Fifi, who has given birth to eight offspring and seen all but one survive to adulthood, is a queen with scant taste for kings.

Among the women, those with the greatest number of spouses were themselves considered high-quality mates, the hardest working, the most reliable, with scant taste for the strong maize beer the Pimbwe famously brew.

Zoë Wanamaker was a delight as Ariadne Oliver, Christie's jokey self-portrait, munching apples and bashing out potboilers with scant regard for accuracy or taste.

Behavioral tests of whale taste sensation are scant, with a few studies having examined bottlenose dolphins (Nachtigall and Hall 1984; Friedl et al. 1990).

Weigh the juice and add 10% by weight of caster sugar, plus a scant squeeze of lemon juice, to taste.

Scant ¾ cup Dijonnaise, or to taste. 4 hamburger buns or English muffins.

The fact that volatile molecules can enter the terminal pore and stimulate taste neurons has received scant attention, except for reports showing that plant odors stimulate taste receptor neurons of tobacco hornworm larvae, Manduca sexta [53], the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say) [54] and the blowfly [28].

The placebo contains also a scant amount of fish oil to provide a comparable taste of the different capsules.