Traditionally, one of the sweetest periods in the lives of many college graduates has been the time immediately after leaving school, when they could relax and take the measure of the newly emerging adult world.
For one sweet extended period that year it seemed as if everything was changing for the better, that the Cold War was at an end, and that we were living, if not quite at the end of history, then at the beginning of something new and promising.
That gloppy sweet tomato period is an awful concoction, the culinary equivalent of a skid mark in your panties.
Pair it up with Holding the Man (Peccadillo, 15), another soft-but-sweet-centred period tale of gay self-realisation.
Or you love everybody and foreign policy consists of being sweet to others, period.
Warlow and his fellow writers have adopted a house style that combines antiquity with immediacy, finding that sweet spot between period escapism and visceral nowness.
The Jama Psychiatry study looked at the Sleep Healthy Using the Internet (SHUTi) programme, which asks users to keep a sleep diary and then produces an algorithm that identifies their "sweet window" (the period of time the person should be asleep).
Like other tuber crops, sweet potatoes exhibit a period of dormancy, which enables them to be stored for short periods.
It is a very effective period piece, sweet and nostalgic, and it was buoyantly played by Mr. Wild.
