"You take its cool, smooth substance into your mouth," he wrote, "and it is as if the very darkness of the room were melting on your tongue".
But if you ignore the fact that air is made of atoms and instead approximate it as a continuum, a smooth substance that has a density, pressure and velocity at each point, you find that this idealised air obeys a beautifully simple equation that explains almost everything we care about: how to build airplanes, how we hear them with soundwaves, how to make weather forecasts, etc.
Antonio Banderas stars as Ledgard, a wealthy and brilliant plastic surgeon who in his palatial home, tastefully furnished and equipped with its own private operating theatre, is secretly experimenting on the beautiful and submissive young Vera Elena Anayaa), whose entire skin covering he is replacing with an eerily smooth artificial substance, transgenically derived from pig hide.
The barely seasoned potatoes exist basically as a smooth, unctuous substance that oozes out of the tacos with the deliberate grace of molten lava.
Drug officials aren't sure how to deal with the drug, a smooth, glassy substance that's significantly more potent when smoked but is still, ultimately, a marijuana derivative and thus not particularly unsafe.
Scanning electron microscope observation (Westall et al., 2006b, 2011b) shows that the upper surface of the films consists of thin filaments (<0.5 μm) thickly coated with a smooth polymerlike substance (similar to EPS).
Another type of indirect mechanism is the action of vasodilator substances that work by releasing a smooth muscle relaxant substance from the cells lining the interior of the vessel.
Kilikanoon Killerman's Run Shiraz, Clare Valley, Australia 2014 (£13, Marks & Spencer) Other candidates for smooth wines of substance can be found across the Andes in Argentina.
With the mixer still going, gradually incorporate the neutral oil, little by little, until you have a smooth mayo-like substance (it will be runnier than the traditional kind, but will firm up a bit in the fridge).
Mix all ingredients together in a bowl until it forms a smooth paste-like substance.
Recent evidence suggests that vasoconstrictive substances, including angiotensin II (Ang II), may function as a vascular smooth muscle growth promoting substance and may contribute to vascular hypertrophy in hypertension.
