"Raspberry's clarity of thought and his insistence on speaking the truth as he sees it — even when others disagree — have kept his column fresh, unpredictable and uncommonly wise," the citation said.
The dials aligned on uncommonly clean pay dirt.
For starters, there's a wonderful plate of assorted roasted vegetables — beets, cippoline (squat, sweet onions), Brussels sprouts and more — from the wood-burning oven; it goes best as an appetizer, if you ask me, along with an equally large platter of credible if not house-made salume, served with fresh, crisp, uncommonly good radishes and fennel, and sweet, dark-green olives.
Now in his third season as the orchestra's music director, Mr. Muti drew a fresh, exciting and uncommonly subtle performance of this unabashedly theatrical piece from the orchestra; the 150-voice Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director); the 33-member Chicago Children's Choir (Josephine Lee, director); and three vocal soloists.
Last week I carelessly made too many potato gnocchi for a dinner generated by the purchase of half a pound of fresh porcini in uncommonly good condition, so I froze the excess for another occasion.
He was uncommonly handsome, his features clean and sharply etched.
Most travelers are uncommonly interested in meeting new people.
Green, who wrote his first hit, "Coquette," while he was still a senior at Harvard, was a dapper, confident and uncommonly articulate man whose trademark was the fresh carnation he wore in his lapel every day.
The chef's special rolls are uncommonly successful; on the simpler side, the spicy salmon roll was fresh and uncomplicated, as was the shrimp tempura roll and the center roll, a crunchy affair with spicy tuna and avocado, rolled in tobiko.
The fresh corpse lying at Monk's feet at the beginning of this uncommonly atmospheric mystery was a master forger, and behind the murder of this "nasty piece of work" lies a clue to the puzzle of Monk's troublesome memory gaps.
