Musically, Tesfaye's stark, downbeat songs operate at the yin end of the gruff-sweet spectrum; his tender falsetto recalls Michael Jackson with all the lock-jawed grimacing taken out.
Google could announce its intention to bid on that sweet, unused spectrum as early as later today, according to the WSJ.
Sugar will often be there, to draw out the natural sweetness and tame the fruit's tang, but they also adore some flavours from the other end of the sweet-tart spectrum.
Grapefruit curd with mascarpone and a crumble of pistachio and green tea demonstrated the more elegant notes of bitterness, and sunchoke cream with chestnut, black-trumpet mushrooms, and coffee expounded on the sweet-savory spectrum of nuttiness.
At the ridiculous end of the spectrum, Sweet's Alexander Graham Bell uses the telephone pioneer to explore the theme of love at a distance.
Those turn out to be a wide range of varietals, with many running toward the sweet end of the spectrum.
Let it dissolve on your tongue, and it will reveal a spectrum of sweet aromatics: nutty, toffee-ish, floral, woody.
And even some of the better options — a squash-soup special, say — stick, not very inventively, to the sweet end of the taste spectrum.
His last film, Happy-Go-Lucky, tilted the tone to the "sweet" end of the bittersweet spectrum; Another Year takes us in the opposite direction, and to my ear, the neo-Dickensian cartooniness of his language, perceptibly normalised in recent films, is here lessened still further.
One thing that has been missing out in the ROYGBIV food spectrum is a sweet breakfast or dessert item.
Or for something on the sweeter, gentler side of the spectrum, go ahead and use all heavy cream.
