But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.

Anyone who has watched children develop a taste for literature will understand what I mean.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

From necessity, they are also inspired by the `` hard-sell '' attitude of the sponsor, so, finally, it is the sponsor who must take the responsibility for the good or bad taste of his advertising.

Interest remained, however, in the possibility that it would serve as a useful supplementary method for counteracting spoilage losses and for preserving some foods at lower over-all costs than freezing, or without employing heat or chemicals with their attendant taste alterations.

Because the food is selected with thought for its nutritional value, care for its origin, and prepared in a manner that retains the most nutrients, the food does taste good.

However, by cultivating a wine dealer and accepting his advice, one will soon enough ascertain whether he has any knowledge of wines ( as opposed to what he may have been told by salesmen and promoters ) and, better yet, whether he has a taste for wine.

The fragrance and taste of any white wine will die a lingering death when it is allowed to warm or is exposed for long to the air.

The cowboy films, the cops and robbers films, and the slapstick comedy films culminating in an insane chase are not only catering to what critics may assume to be a vulgar taste for violence ; ;

Added to the argument was the fact that while she might have tasted the coffee if it had been still hot, she might even have drunk some of it, she wouldn't have taken enough to kill her, for she would have been warned by its taste.

Wallace Gray has directed a difficult play here, usually well, but with just a bit too much physical movement in the first act for my taste.

From this taste of the 1920s, we leaped way out to Stan Getz's private brand of progressive jazz, which did lovely, subtle things for `` Baubles, Bangles And Beads '', and a couple of ballards.

" Alex's friends (" droogs " in the novel's Anglo-Russian slang, Nadsat ) are: Dim, a slow-witted bruiser who is the gang's muscle ; Georgie, an ambitious second-in-command ; and Pete, who mostly plays along as the droogs indulge their taste for ultra-violence.

In the final chapter, Alex has a new trio of droogs, but he finds he is beginning to outgrow his taste for violence.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

Reported to have a bitter and unpleasant taste, they are more useful for survival purposes.

The baked products were evaluated for loaf volume, moisture content, color, odor, taste and texture.

However, the classics had not refined his taste, for he was amused by setting itinerant scholars, who swarmed to his court, to abuse one another in the indescribably filthy Latin scolding matches which were then the fashion.

In 1779, he named this part of the air " oxygen " ( Greek for " becoming sharp " because he claimed that the sharp taste of acids came from oxygen ), and the other " azote " ( Greek " no life ").

From the 17th century onwards, " scandalous memoirs " by supposed libertines, serving a public taste for titillation, have been frequently published.

Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

The line " There's this to say for blood and breath ,/ they give a man a taste for death " supplies the title for Peter O ' Donnell's 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for P. D. James ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh series.

Ran has written that she considers classical-era composer Ludwig van Beethoven her " compositional idol ," and her work combines a taste for rigorous structural logic with a unique brand of " free atonality.

Francis Bacon agrees and enumerates such structural enabling and blinding elements of perception / interpretation in the form of his four idols ( tribe which involves species limitations such as the innately human abilities to see, hear, taste ..., the idol of the theater which involves dogmas and ideologies, the idol of the cave which involves my personal limitations such as my education, my IQ, my eyesight ..., and the idol of the market place which involves how others I associate with influence my thinking and perception ).

Through numerous rounds of distillation, or the use of a fractioning still, the taste is modified and clarity is increased.

Strayhorn also arranged many of Ellington's band-within-band recordings and provided harmonic clarity, taste, and polish to Duke's compositions.

In his (" Discourse on Style "), pronounced before the Académie Française, he said, " Writing well consists of thinking, feeling and expressing well, of clarity of mind, soul and taste ....

The form of each letter and the spacing between them was carefully designed for maximum clarity and simplicity, without any decorative flourishes, emphasizing the Roman taste for restraint and order.

Although these are not the only factors used to determine quality, the size and wholeness of the leaves will have the greatest influence on the taste, clarity, and brewing time of the tea.

He displayed a taste for classical proportion, formal order, metrical clarity, and tonal logic.

On the other hand, consumers who lack the sophisticated electronic tongue equipment invented in Malaysia for testing the presence of Eurycoma longifolia, but want more clarity on whether the product they obtained is indeed Eurycoma longifolia or a fake, can use their own tongue to taste the content of capsules for the bitterness of the material.

… Excellent work, clarity and good taste regarding the instrumentation ; employment of dignified motives full of character … Enrichment of the concert repertoire .” From March 1902 onwards, Thieriot had his home again in Hamburg where he lived until his death.

The literature of this period is often equated with the Classicism of Louis XIV's long reign, during which France led Europe in political and cultural development ; its authors expounded the classical ideals of order, clarity, proportion and good taste.

" Classicism " ( as it applies to literature ) implies notions of order, clarity, moral purpose and good taste.

Different thickeners may be more or less suitable in a given application, due to differences in taste, clarity, and their responses to chemical and physical conditions.

And We caused a fount of ( molten ) brass to flow for him, and there were jinn that worked in front of him, by the Leave of his Lord, And whosoever of them turned aside from Our Command, We shall cause him to taste of the torment of the blazing Fire.

He worked for Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales making fanciful garden buildings at Kew, and in 1757 he published a book of Chinese designs which had a significant influence on contemporary taste.

From 1807 to 1814 Orelli worked as preacher in the reformed community of Bergamo, where he acquired the taste for Italian literature which led to the publication of Contributions to the History of Italian Poetry ( 1810 ) and a biography ( 1812 ) of Vittorino da Feltre, his ideal of a teacher.

Baugher then switched to computer programming for the Naperville division of Bell Laboratories ( having developed a taste for computer work ), and worked on phone switches for several years, retiring in 2001., he teaches part-time at the Illinois Institute of Art, and continues to write.

This release also worked as a taste of what was to come with their following full-length album ..

Bean has the assistance of Suriyawong who, giving Achilles a taste of his own medicine, worked his way into Achilles ' trust, for the purpose of eventually betraying him.

In 1605, he worked with George Chapman and Ben Jonson on Eastward Ho, a satire of popular taste and the vain imaginings of wealth to be found in Virginia.

Also during her unemployed days, Monica worked for an unnamed food company, thinking up recipes and then making them, using substitute food products, such as ' Mocolate ' ( featured only in the season two episode " The One with the List "), a chocolate substitute which never took off due to its repulsive taste ( Phoebe described the taste of Mocolate as being " what evil must taste like ") and the side effect of causing urination to become painful if a large amount was eaten.

She worked as a teacher for a brief time, but stirred on by a local land dispute, developed a taste for a form of home-spun politics, including passive resistance.

I would taste the patient ’ s food from time to time and walk into the students hostel and resident ’ s quarters at midnight to see how they lived and worked.

Heideloff principally worked in the Gothic style of architecture, and the buildings restored and erected by him at Nuremberg and in its neighborhood attest to both his original skill and his purity of taste.

:" This artist put into everything that he did a savage and barbarous taste and only rendered himself noted because one imagined that no one knew how to carve out marble as he did, and, to demonstrate it, he worked in such manner that everything formed hollows in his works.