Consider it foremost a vehicle for fixings, though, and you may even come to appreciate that it's smaller, denser, and sweeter — hand-rolled without salt and parboiled in honey water — a demure foil for cream cheese and lox or an excellent whitefish salad, coarse-chopped with celery, pickled asparagus, and dill.
In the chorus, he turns baptism into a deal between two people: "Cool waves wash over me, cool water running free / Lay your sweet hand on me, 'cause I love you".
And this is a song about that.' " Pidgeon played a song of hers called "Sweet Hand of Mercy," which begins, "I'm getting up early / In the tears and dust / Blown apart by the words / Of the one that I trusted.
Her association with Stock, Aitken and Waterman continued until her fourth album, Let's Get to It (1991), and only a few of those songs stand time's tests: Got to Be Certain (1988) is still adorably sweet, Hand on Your Heart (1989) still perfect bubblegum with a brilliant chorus, and Step Back in Time and Shocked (both 1991) still bounce hard.
Highlights include Uninvited Guests' heart-breaker Love Letters Straight From Your Heart (Thu), and Ira Brand and Andy Field's Put Your Sweet Hand In Mine (30 Mar), which has moments of brilliance, as does Selina Thompson's It Burns It All Clean (Fri to 30 Mar).
Chris Ashton Wing – 6 Sweet hands sent Foden away for England's early try.
As usual, The Times Magazine's defense was helmed by the copy editor Dave "Sweet Hands" Vecsey and the art director Caleb "Slim-Cut Pantone" Bennett.
Twickenham is used to big men rumbling around in nut-cracking mode, but at times the sweet hands of the Toulouse forwards were something else.
"Oh, pretty sweet hands," said Calgary forward Scott Nichol after Drury's game-winner against the Devils, when Drury gloved down a pass before scoring.
It was almost amusing to hear Cavaradossi bellowing at Tosca in Act III about her sweet hands ("O dolci mani") that have just wielded the knife that killed the villainous Scarpia.
Ashton looped round from the blindside as Sarries were pressing deep in the Saints' 22 after a mini-break by Brad Barritt, and sweet hands from Farrell and Alex Goode sent him through for that telling try.
