The aperitif and main course whites range from the rewarding off-dry, like the delicious '00 riesling from Paumanok Vineyards in Aquebogue, to the sternly dry, like the taut '99 pinot blanc from Lieb Family Cellars in Mattituck.
("I hope you noticed how I move when I'm ringing," he told me later, rather sternly. "Like flying an airplane").
Standing beside him on the McDowell property were three of his interns, all of whom have pruned and harvested the vines: Alex, a former chef at the French Laundry; Brenna, a comprehensively tattooed wine director; and Courtney, a wine journalist who, when I asked her what the wine from this vineyard tasted like, sternly informed me, "It tastes like Glos".
I grabbed Griselda by her soft, warm arm, stared into her beautiful, ferret-like eyes and sternly replied: "I have a very strong inner belief that you are wrong.
Apart from the moments where Fox's bearded Bobby suddenly looks like a sternly moral then merciful Christian God, LaBute's revelations offer few surprises.
A young man leans chummily on the shoulder of a sternly upright elder, who, like many of Friedrich's heroes, defiantly wears German medieval garb, which was banned under the Metternichian order of Europe after the Napoleonic wars.
In another show of official efforts to stem public ire over menaces to food safety, China's Supreme People's Court, the country's highest court, on Friday issued guidelines for sternly punishing related offenses, like taking "ditch" cooking oil that has been used and dumped in drains and processing it to be resold for cooking.
This author hates television and celebrates the modern familiarity with the term "font", but his call for "a future in which we could all potentially contribute to the creation of things and systems vastly larger than ourselves" often sounds like a sternly authoritarian communalism.
This kind of softness on the I.P.C.C. distresses Payne, who accuses Lomborg of being "too diplomatic" and notes sternly that the I.P.C.C., like Gore, "is dressing up its findings in scary Halloween costumes" — e.g., by predicting that if warming continues it will wipe out a third of the Earth's species.
