At the sink he took a hammer to a bundle of ice cubes, turning them into something palatable and cool for her, shards of slippery water passed from his trembling hand to her pink tongue.
The task had to be something "palatable", such as fundraising for cancer or Aids research, where she would not be mobbed by the media, Mr Breitbart told reporters.
The more we continue in this direction of fast-food therapy — something that feels good but isn't as good for you; something palatable without a lot of substance — the more tempted many of us will be to indulge.
The unborn are easy to advocate for because you can idealize them into something palatable to you, something benign and comfortable, something in your own image.
With the advent of the graphical user interface (or GUI), however, the hallowed tradition of command-line tinkering was sublimated into something palatable to lay users, to folks uninterested in learning the language of code for themselves.
Stationed at FOB Triumph, in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces, Gooding is a writer in the public affairs office of an Army infantry division, responsible for news releases that turn the "sucking chest wounds and the dismemberments into something palatable — ideally, something patriotic".
At the time, Schaefer was experiencing some misgivings about her attempts to manipulate her act into something more palatable for television.
When the Stooges left London for Los Angeles in October 1972, DeFries got Bowie to produce and mix Raw Power in a last-ditch attempt to create something vaguely palatable for the record-buying public.
But Google's efforts seem designed more like its software product launches – beta versions of products or product ideas it's refining into something more palatable for a general audience.
The disconnect between McCain's words and his actions, all in an effort to distort his record into something more palatable for voters, is the central approach to his campaign.
