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unctuousness
noun
The state or characteristic of being unctuous.
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The boutique approach can sometimes feel like another form of irritating unctuousness; the third age of hotels may be a mere fad, destined to be much shorter than their industrial age.
Waltuck favors unctuousness, and goes overboard in the sea-scallop fettuccine coated in melted duck fat.
Sheets of pasta commingle with luscious chunks of pork in copious butter, the unctuousness cut with bitter arugula.
The 1947 lacked the unctuousness of right-bank Bordeaux from that legendary vintage, and the 1961 struck him as "very young".
With a possibly too perfect unctuousness, Dr. Mordechai then turns to Anastas's wife and says, "Respond to that.
Koons is famous for a public persona of relentlessly smiley, Amway-salesman unctuousness.
And while I'm not sure what "burnt ends" is doing on an Italian menu, Carbone's version of this barbecue standard — chunks from the point end of the brisket — has a nice amount of "bark" or char, its fatty unctuousness shrewdly cut by a tart infusion of blood-orange juice in the sauce.
He hit the nail on the head with a dish of langoustines, tripe and sweetbreads, a ménage that sounded weird, but offered a sublimely smooth texture and savory unctuousness.
Made from assam-leaf-infused vodka, orange marmalade and just enough milk to lend a cozy unctuousness, it's a marvelous simulacrum.
Directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand 1 hour 33 minutes; not rated A wake-up call delivered with bedtime-story unctuousness, "Home" paints the destruction of our planet in the yummiest colors imaginable.
This kingly dish epitomizes unctuousness: two sublime meats in a truffled Madeira sauce with the concentrated savor of a marrowy veal stock cooked way down.
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