Without the food metaphor the tension drops somewhat, leaving something rather more sombre, although the mood is revived by a postprandial encounter in a coffee house.
SUSAN ORLEAN: It fits with his interest in tradition and iconic imagery, as well as the fact that he's treating somewhat irreverently something that maybe people wouldn't dare play with.
Even in this post-Avengers movie age, I still find brightly-costumed heroes interacting with real life on the big screen somewhat jarring, something with which I have no trouble in the confines of a comic panel.
This time, as most of the world knows by now, the Socialist candidate is the somewhat scattered, "something for everyone" president of the region in central France called Poitou-Charentes, Ségolène Royal, and the conservative candidate is the tightly wired and, until last month, famously uncensored interior minister, from the rich Paris suburb of Neuilly, Nicolas Sarkozy.
It will be interesting to see how the Xbox ecosystem improves with Skype and VideoSurf integration, but the future is definitely looking somewhat bright — something that's not always said in when referring to the tech old timer.
Or because the field itself is seen as somewhat disreputable, something for nerds and geeks to take care of the establishment tends to the more important matters of law and finance and steel and cars and oil.
According to Grohl, the analog strategy would make the record "sound rawer and somewhat imperfect", something which guitarist Chris Shiflett agreed was beneficial, declaring that "rock n'roll is about flaws and imperfections".
Finding a lump, having a biopsy, waiting for the news (which turns out to be bad), being transported into an alternative universe that somewhat resembles something you've seen on TV but is happening to you and never cuts for a commercial -- the whole experience is, for many, life-shaping in a way that few other events can be.
somewhat for "something".
[3] [4] But for the moment, I was interested in something somewhat less apocalyptic.
