Even the taste for large-scale scenes illustrating Shakespeare and other themes which were commissioned toward the end of the century from James Barry, James Northcote, and Edward Penny, among others never spread far beyond a few patrons.
After all the small skirmishes and ambushes, after months of lobbing tons of bombs and shells on vague targets in Free Strike Zones, the size, complexity, and careful coördination of the Cedar Falls operation satisfied the military men's taste for careful large-scale planning.
The man the business press had dubbed a recluse because he never gave them an interview revealed very publicly, among the fans and down the Bigg Market, his taste for drinking and larging it, plus the casino, of which Llambias was the manager before being entrusted with the great club.
"HGTV has set the style and the tastes for a large part of America," Mr. Weissman said.
From the winery to the tasting room, opportunities exist for larger (and, of course, smaller) producers to positively impact the environment.
The risk-taking put Harper's at the avant-garde of the New Journalism, which applied fiction's narrative techniques to fact, an experiment that seemed to reflect a taste for boundary violations at large in the culture.
The house of Ali Hassan al-Majid, a first cousin of Mr. Hussein who is known to Iraqis as "Chemical Ali" for his role in directing chemical weapons attacks on the Kurdish city of Halabja, was incomplete, but a storehouse behind gave a picture of a man with a large taste for Western indulgences.
A vain man, with a taste for extravagant vacations and large houses, as well as an ambition to be known as a lavish philanthropist, Khan then set himself up as the Sears Roebuck-style supplier of packaged bomb-programs to the world.
They need to read to climb out of their constricted lives and taste a larger world, if only for a short time.
(The three are Mr. Edwards's involvement in a hedge fund; his taste for expensive haircuts and the large house he built for himself in North Carolina).
