It has been over for a while, the drip, drip effect of a football club in demise, the slow lowering of expectations, the blind ignoring of reality.
Add a drip pan below where the meat will sit, since a fair amount of fat will drip off while it cooks.
Every once and a while, however, pigment drips down the canvas in a wild, watery streak, reminiscent at once of frayed fabric, or perhaps spilling blood viewed through translucent skin.
Then I had her watch while I dripped red wine onto each sample.
And, all the while, we're drip-fed details of Jamine's former life, and, stealthy as recession, we come to understand her, to sympathise, even.
The lamb shank, having been braised for two hours, was so tender that it nearly dripped off the bone, while an appetizer of gnocchi and short ribs was, counterintuitively, perfectly light.
The roofer, whose name emerged from the morass of the Yellow Pages, arrives some days later, during a period of tumultuous weather, and stands banging on the front door while rain drips from the corroded copper gutters (which, incidentally, are also guaranteed for life).
There's no sitting, daydreaming and admiring the view while brilliance drips from your pen.
Then, I perch myself over the kitchen sink, eating them one by one, reveling in their velvety flesh while sugary juice drips down my chin and elbows.
Also conflated are the techniques of Jackson Pollock, said to dance around and occasionally step on his horizontal canvases while delivering his drips of paint, and Andy Warhol's "Oxidation" paintings, where the acid was urine.
The skins and seeds, which will not pass through the sieve's mesh, exit at the narrow end of the cone, while the purée drips onto a chute and runs into a container.
