Spring is the season lemon trees bear ripe, astringent bounty.
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It was astringent and didn't go with the other flavors.
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Look for a hydrating, not astringent toner, Ms. Cho said.
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I personally love its ability to temper anything acidic or astringent.
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The skins are astringent with tannins, and the fruit powerfully tart.
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There is a better case for a less astringent form of intervention.
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It is most reminiscent of black tea, but without the astringent note.
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Many, though, are just an astringent irritant that dry out the vagina.
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Complex, abstract, often difficult, both men's output can feel astringent at times.
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He also remains a strong and at times astringent critic of the president.
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It's leathery and powdery, woody, slightly astringent, with a shadowy trace of berries.
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Jordan was, in no uncertain terms, addicted the astringent juice of absurd stakes.
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But since it's less alcoholic than most spirits, Utopias is not as astringent.
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The room smelled of mud and astringent perfume, mixed in with the weed.
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Yet the author's astringent approach to myths and falsehoods could be more evenly applied.
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And a tart of sea buckthorn, shockingly astringent, the passion fruit of the north.
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"The alcohol may give some relief as an astringent," says California-based dentist Mark Burhenne.
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If the acidity dominates, the wines can be astringent and rustic in an unpleasant way.
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The movie tells his life story, punctuated with interviews and sometimes astringent asides from Rams.
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The platform is also noteworthy for its astringent language on gay marriage, transgender rights and pornography.
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But most, reflecting their crab apple ancestry, are too tart and astringent to be commercially viable.
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Some trees produced apples that were bitter, astringent, and puckering, but others were sweet and juicy.
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Meanwhile, WikiLeaks was plagued with infighting, often touched off by Mr. Assange's astringent style and ego.
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The press referred to his 'energetic fervor,' 'astringent intellect,' 'peppery prose,' 'acumen,' and 'affability,' all apt descriptions.
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I really love how tea smells, but I don't love the astringent/bitter tannins in hot tea.
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I assumed the diaries would be dark, astringent and antiquated, like sipping vinegar through an iron lung.
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Cranberry juice in its earliest, purest form was far more astringent than the version now sold commercially.
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Lloyd's enjoyable, astringent experiment feels transitional, and plows new ground for interpreter-directors of Pinter to come.
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Chamomile tea is a popular natural remedy due to its anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and mild astringent qualities.
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Mr. Egarr amplified those with bodily winces, but the effect was merely astringent rather than sick-making.
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But the pitches Mr. Norman piles up came across as precisely chosen for their astringent beauty and impact.
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I mention this to convey how stimulating and astringent it is in the mouth — just like raw rhubarb.
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Drawing on his early-music experience, the conductor Teodor Currentzis encouraged vibrato-free playing and an astringent sound.
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The consolation, though, is that all of these books are excellent, as bracing and astringent as a slap.
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Tannic red wines can be astringent, a drying sensation in the mouth that can be experienced as bitter.
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Word of the Day astringent \ə-ˈstrin-jənt\ adjective or noun adjective: tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue noun: a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals _________ The word astringent has appeared in 16 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Nov.
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Or an emptinessso sudden it leaves the girderswhanging in the absence of wind,the sky milk-blue and astringent?
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As an astringent commentary on her surrounding society, this early series demonstrated her emphasis on feminism and social justice.
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Astringent and unsentimental, these essays span over half a century and, as such, constitute a monumental, if unwitting, autobiography.
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Its astringent properties tighten pores… and it also has an anti-acne effect in part because of its antiseptic properties.
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The cathartic two-guitar attack has the feel of avant-rock, while the astringent harmony recalls experiments by Charles Ives.
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Finally, stop wasting precious time and money on an astringent, 10-step skin-care routine that does more harm than good.
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The film's portrait of Lee and Jack's unlikely friendship radiates an astringent warmth and authenticity that's incredibly hard to pull off.
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Transmuting astringent economics into compassion, promising tolerance without a cost, wreathing jeremiads in sunshine, the story might even do the trick.
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By modern standards people would have thought it was too harsh and astringent — but I was glad we had the experience.
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The fruit, an unpatented variety referred to as 22016AA22014, was juicy and soft, mildly astringent but tropical, reminiscent of white tea.
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As ever, its murky, astringent music is something you can climb inside, a darkened lens through which to see the world.
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This astringent yet oddly desultory book, a curio from a very good writer, more resembles, for good and ill, an anchovy.
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It was fresh and easy in a way that, say, young Bordeaux, with tannins that could be unpleasantly astringent, was not.
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Often astringent and deliberately metronomic, these are not the prettiest Haydn recordings, but they are full of sly touches and offbeat choices.
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The wine was harsh, sweet but astringent, and the taste seemed to register in the esophagus as much as in the mouth.
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The glycerin is hydrating, and the tea tree acts as an astringent; it's been used as a natural acne remedy for years.
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Toners: Most of us are familiar with these astringent liquids thanks to our teenage (and for the unfortunate few, beyond) acne years.
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VSB of San Francisco seemed to like the Alain Graillot, but called it "port-like," and found a lingering hot, astringent quality.
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The montepulciano grape has plenty of astringent tannins in its skins, which give the wines, even the simple ones, a robust structure.
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It is an astringent process filled with many restrictions and background checks for applicants who are at the mercy of a faceless bureaucracy.
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There's an unsettling chill to nearly every song, that kind of astringent, unwavering coolness that comes from being just a bit too high.
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Sheila Heti's "How Should A Person Be?" and, in a more astringent mode, Rachel Cusk's "Outline," present female subjectivity as fragmentary or contingent.
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When you use a harsh astringent on sensitive skin and everything looks red and scary, it's hard to keep your hands to yourself.
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Broadway's top-drawer star Patti LuPone is in roaring voice as the astringent if solicitous Joanne, who pushes Bobbie to open her heart.
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Many reviews say the formula doesn't contain alcohol, but it actually has denatured alcohol, which has astringent properties that can help mattify oily skin.
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It tastes surprisingly astringent and medicinal, given the nose, with a thin mouthfeel and notes of tobacco, allspice and wood smoke, resolving in ground pepper.
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The music pulses with searing power, frenetic breathlessness and an astringent harmonic language spiked with thick, piercing chords, though pensive, dreamy episodes provide welcome relief.
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An astringent outlier in a dizzy age, it has none of the ironic pop songs and retro homages that dominate so many modern cable dramas.
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VSB of San Francisco, usually enthusiastic, was not a fan of the 2016 Clos des Myglands, which he found to be thin, astringent and innocuous.
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I know this is a terrible idea, but it makes me feel clean in the same way that Sea Breeze Astringent did in early adolescence.
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How about the way that the light visual comedy of the bread is juxtaposed with the cerebral, astringent humor of the phrase "pleasant forensic exercise"?
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For stretches, this amalgamation of styles held together uneasily, but toward the end, a blend of ostinato propulsion and astringent harmony created a memorable vibe.
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The movies are fraternal twins, a pair of deceptively astringent women's midlife crisis movies set on opposite sides of a divide between having children and not.
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And almost all of them were delicious—the soba noodle salad with kimchi is astringent perfection, and the dark chocolate granola is the stuff of addiction.
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"The formulas salicylic acid eases inflammation and unclogs pores, while the witch hazel works as a natural astringent to help decrease oil and redness," she said.
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"No playwright in Broadway's long and raucous history has so dominated the boulevard as the softly astringent Simon," The New Yorker's John Lahr wrote in 21997.
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An excellent scholarly biography by Joan E. Cashin was published in 2006, and she drifts through Mary Chesnut's astringent memoirs prophesying the failure of the Confederacy.
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The first time I use it, I find the lotion quite astringent and notice some tingling, especially on areas where my skin is sensitive due to blemishes.
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If your only previous experience with toner is a brief but painful fling with highly-astringent Sea Breeze as an adolescent, well, you're in for a treat.
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Additional time in the cask, given the warm climate and the new charred oak barrels that are required by federal law, usually results in astringent, woody flavors.
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" The result, Mr. Kalish said, was a timbre, nearly unique to Mr. Zukofsky, that stands as an apt metaphor for the man himself: "astringent, but very pure.
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These organic compounds, responsible for the astringent, mouth-puckering quality of red wine, have evolved in plants to help counter various stresses, including being eaten by animals.
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Sweet pierogi, for dessert, are filled with a sugared curdlike cheese or fresh berries, though the slightly astringent strawberries reminded me that summer is still months away.
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The new Bluetooth M240s hew pretty close to that formula, but they relax the sound just enough to be enjoyably lively rather than astringent and in your face.
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Mr. Gottlieb ran that magazine smoothly and sanely until he too was defenestrated, five years later, to make room for a more astringent change agent in Tina Brown.
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Like the ugly-duckling-turned-prom-queen in a '22018s teen movie, hand sanitizer has transformed from an astringent-smelling disinfectant into a product people are "hyperenthusiastic" about.
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Theirs is the least conventional, most subtle and moving of the three romantic relationships, and elegant, no-nonsense Iris, in her astringent yet accurate judgments, is especially delicious.
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Each song is designed to bleed into the next, and hypnotic, astringent sounds evoke unending cycles of self-harm, both on an intimate and a humanity-wide scale.
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Despite its title, this isn't a bland tale that goes down easy; "Jell-O Girls" is dark and astringent, a cutting rebuke to its delicate, candy-colored namesake.
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But fermented foods thus preserved tend to be more astringent and less subtle than those that live on in the consumer, and they have none of their biological diversity.
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Reviewing the novel a quarter century after diagnosing America's literary bipolarity in "Paleface and Redskin," Philip Rahv saluted its "masterful combination"—the demotic and literary, the astringent and poetic.
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Like our toners, they are watery and applied after cleansing, but they're neither astringent nor meant to wipe away a shoddy cleansing job (that's what double cleansing is for).
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"There once were days so bright," the soloist sings to wistful music that could be outtakes from Copland's opera "The Tender Land," but with a more astringent harmonic language.
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The book is all mind, and an observant, taut, astringent mind it is, though there is something almost unhinged about so much rationality in the face of such duress.
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A mere nibble of one was enough to release an awful astringent flavour that lingered on his palate for hours, regardless of any attempt to wash out his mouth.
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The oil's antioxidants will work to heal, while the juice functions as a astringent to minimize scarring, says Michele Green, a board certified cosmetic dermatologist based in New York City.
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Critic's Pick The most recent season of FXX's astringent comedy "You're the Worst" ended, if not with a proposal, at least with a panicked surrender to the idea of marriage.
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At each meal, Sreedharan told me, you are certain to have six different tastes or rasas -- sweet, salty, sour, bitter, pungent and astringent -- and they should be eaten in that order.
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And according to Rissetto, moringa can even be applied to the skin as an astringent for cuts and scrapes, which is pretty cray (but a 2016 study suggests this could work).
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We meet Ruby, an astringent prostitute who is known on the street as "Thunder Thighs" and becomes the tragic clown of the season as she attempts to laugh through her pain.
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The most glamorous entry is "Episodes," an ultramodernist 1959 work, set to the astringent sounds of Webern, in which Balanchine turned ballet upside down and inside out, innovating in ugly beauty.
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But I didn't check my watch once in the five hours of David Herskovits's bold, astringent revival for Target Margin Theater, which (full disclosure) does keep the chanteys, sorry to say.
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Our head pâtissier, Eric Verbauwhede, devised a rolled sponge cake with pear jam and chocolate, both flavored with sumac, which is magically astringent, then concealed under a chef's hat made of white chocolate.
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"Despite its title, this isn't a bland tale that goes down easy; 'Jell-O Girls' is dark and astringent, a cutting rebuke to its delicate, candy-colored namesake," our critic Jennifer Szalai writes.
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How futile to restrict a character to a single melody line: Wouldn't it make more sense to think we're composed for cello, horn, clarinet and more, played simultaneously to make an astringent chord?
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How refreshing to read a sharp, astringent critique of the kind of self-indulgent meanderings that too many people seem to feel they must share with the world, complete with knowledgeable fact-checking.
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She has a silly job in a Christmas shop where, dressed as an elf, she spars with the owner, a woman who calls herself Santa and is played by an agreeably astringent Michelle Yeoh.
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And yet she is haunted by the oddball past of New England, especially as it inheres in material traces: her spare, astringent poetics derives much of its power from the archival sources it juxtaposes.
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Though there are records of medieval medical uses of the plant as an astringent healer of "old green wounds," whatever uses cancer root once had for treating that disease have been lost to time.
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Mr. Irabagon doubles on alto and tenor saxophone, and he gamely switches from straight-ahead jazz to astringent post-metal ( his guitar-sax-drums combo, wryly named I Don't Hear Nothin' But the Blues).
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Sunflower seed oil is high in omega-6 fatty acids and vitamin E that hydrates and prevents moisture loss, and myrtle oil acts as an astringent and antiseptic — another combatant against excess oil and acne.
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Exotic and sweetly astringent, they were a standby of posh dinner parties throughout the Commonwealth, the sort of dish that was not particularly difficult to make but still signaled a home cook's understanding of elegance.
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Her name became an adjective, Beattie-esque, a way of describing quiet, astringent fiction that showed white baby boomers (Beattie's closest peers) emerging, dazed, from the 1960s and trying to make sense of their lives.
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The fabled austerity of these wines may be an obstacle if they are drunk as an aperitif or in a bar, but with food, what otherwise may seem astringent comes off as cool, brisk and fresh.
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Since it's a part of the astringent family â€" a category of chemicals that dry out the skin by stripping it of its oils â€" be sure not to go too overboard when applying this product.
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Turns out, the participants generally liked the wines better—and rated them to be less astringent—after eating the cheese, indicating that the creaminess of the fromage may have helped to cut the wine's acidic notes.
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"Enough is enough," she wrote, in an astringent open letter, describing how she discovered last year that the BBC paid two of its four international editors — men, of course — 50 percent more than the female editors.
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Earlier this year, in the pages of National Review , Kevin D. Williamson devoted a typically astringent column to the kind of poor community that is rarely called a ghetto and even less often targeted for gentrification.
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My skin is sensitive and pale, so an abrasive cleanser or harsh astringent can mean I come out of my nightly routine looking like the first successful hybrid between a human being and a farm-fresh tomato.
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Mr. Turnage clearly relishes the material's otherworldly side; the score, written for 15 musicians, is astringent and occasionally violent, bringing to mind early chamber pieces such as "On All Fours" (1983) and "Blood on the Floor" (1996).
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High Rhode eschews even a hint of sugar, delivering instead a syrupy yet astringent citrus flavor, with a bitter undertone and an intensely herbal nose, producing a flavor that somehow splits the difference between grapefruit juice and Jagermeister.
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His works are often collections of tiny bits — some of his set of 40 "Kafka Fragments," for soprano and violin, are just a few seconds long — which pack a concentrated punch, extravagant in expression while rigorously focused and astringent.
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A meaningful national identity has been constructed from a common appreciation of ceremonial pig-tusk bracelets and the taking of kava, a very mild narcotic root that looks like primordial pea soup and tastes like a fine astringent dirt.
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In the 1960s, Miss King was a feature writer for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. Her first book under her own name was the nonfiction title "Southern Ladies and Gentlemen" (1975), an astringent anthropology of the region for benighted Yankees.
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And it's possible to make your own hand sanitizer at home, using cheap rubbing alcohol for your active ingredient, although it can be tricky -- you might also end up producing a product that could prove too astringent to your skin.
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At the same time, her high school crush, Ben (Nick Robinson of "Jurassic World"), is groomed to lead a squad of child and teenage commandos (including the delightfully astringent Maika Monroe, from "It Follows," in goth eye shadow) in fighting the Others.
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The soft, luxuriant beauty of Lawler's photographs, which made them seem a touch decadent when compared with the astringent worldview of her peers, now delivers an undeniable jolt of feeling — or, perhaps, we now feel free enough to accept their emotional baggage.
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That is, rather than the firm, possibly rugged, astringent tannins from grape and oak that you might sense in younger, age-worthy wines, the tannins in these wines feel as if they've been sanded down by time to a softer, more comfortable state.
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The multi-faceted, prodigiously talented Italian producer has spent the last few years amassing a loyal following of fans who are simultaneously perplexed and pleased with his stuttering and astringent trance-not-trance, and 2016 saw him release the fantastically beguiling Persona EP on Warp.
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I like Rachel Kushner and Deborah Levy, who are both pretty astringent, but even highly connected writers like Alice Munro are making a shape on the page, and it is the shape that moves me, as much or more than the lives she depicts.
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But Una Pizza's legend has been built on the astringent minimalism of its aesthetic and offerings, and the promise that Mr. Mangieri himself would, in his monastic and magical way, make every pie until he ran out of dough, which he still does every night.
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Alan Strachan's West End revival of "How the Other Half Loves" reclaimed Alan Ayckbourn's 1969 play for keeps, its portrait of the marital fissures and multiple betrayals across three couples constituting a master class in astringent comedy that made audiences laugh and wince in turn.
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The gender-generation contrast gives "Hotel by the River" a pleasing, astringent symmetry, even if the film, shot in chilly black-and-white that makes this one of Hong's most visually arresting movies, doesn't quite overcome the slightness that characterizes even the director's best work.
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Billy Wilder's classic tale of romance between classes on Long Island owes its enduring popularity to two main factors: the ever-astringent humor of a trio of legendary screenwriters — Wilder, Samuel Taylor, and Ernest Lehman — and the chemistry of a trio of legendary actors.
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Having broken with Parker, Grahm felt free to be more openly critical of his wine standards, which involve numerical grades and favor "fruit bombs"—big, jammy, rich wines—over the more complicated and, on first taste, astringent wines that Grahm considers the main line of vinous greatness.
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Such a device, we learn early in this astringent and eloquent work from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Topdog/Underdog," was a gift to an insomniac in his 30s named Leo (a smashing Daveed Diggs), who hasn't had a good night's rest since he was 5.
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Its departure point was the lovely sound of works like the Dvorak and Tchaikovsky serenades, which Ms. Meyer quickly complicated, by dividing and redividing lines, and roughed up with astringent effects, like a creaking and croaking among the double basses midway through, which was then offset by squealing violins.
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As part of Theater of Eternal Music, which played at the composer La Monte Young's TriBeCa loft, he contributed the dry, astringent sound of his violin to the ensemble's long-form drone improvisations, and his mathematical background provided the theoretical underpinnings of the group's unconventional system of musical intonation.
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Rather than advise consumers to wait 25 years until they opened, say, a good Bordeaux, as was the old custom, they have altered their methods of production in an effort to make wines that can be enjoyed younger, that are no longer as tannic, astringent or impenetrable as they once were.
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Photograph by David Williams for The New Yorker Barca may not yet be the sort of place where raw uni is flying off the menu, which perhaps accounts for why an order of it was surprisingly subpar, marred by a tragically metallic, astringent flavor that suggested it was less than fresh, or contained a preservative.
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A gracious server (wearing, I was happy to note, a union button) referred to "the crab cakes," plural, but only one came to an order, a sixty-two-dollar orange puck whose meat tasted as much like chicken thigh as like anything from the sea—though it was swimming, in a pool of astringent mustard sauce.
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And in the century or so that the beauty industry has been hawking products to try to fix that problem, the goods themselves haven't necessarily evolved: A 1908 issue of Woman Beautiful magazine promoted a multiproduct home regimen for fighting facial wrinkles that sounds something like today's, combining an astringent, creams and an electric vibrator massage.
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Yet, seizing on every piercing chord and astringent harmony, he also brought out boldly the contemporary elements of Poulenc's musical language, which subtly draws from diverse styles including modal French sacred music, Impressionist colorings and Neo-Classical fanfares and chorales, even sly hints of salon room insouciance during scenes in which aristocrats lament their political predicament.
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My Sunday column talked a bit about the way in which varying interpretations of "Amoris Laetitia," Pope Francis's apostolic exhortation on the family, have produced variations in official Catholic teaching on marriage from diocese to diocese, region to region – a "submerged schism," to borrow a phrase from the Vatican-watcher Andrea Gagliarducci, which thanks to the astringent words of certain bishops is no longer even that submerged.
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Of tables and chairs, that is, spilling out for many years onto the sidewalk, wide at this point, a capacious sun-capturing corner, to which clients were accustomed; the perfect spot for a plate of charcuterie or cheese with a glass of Côte du Rhone, nothing fancy, just tannic enough to offset the fruit, a little astringent on the palate, an authentic wine well made.
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"You certainly feel more refreshed, but there's not necessarily any difference in terms of timing," says dermatologist and Specific Beauty Skincare founder Heather Woolery-Lloyd, MD. No matter what time of day it is, be sure to pick the right hero ingredients for your concern: "Charcoal is always good for oily or acne-prone skin, because it has astringent properties and may help with reducing excess oil," Dr. Woolery-Lloyd says.
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Dressing the now-cooked artichoke is a pleasure that you can take in many directions, a bit like pairing food and wine — you can go against its sweet and earthy flavor with high-acid ingredients like capers and diced tomatoes and briny olives; or tarragon vinegar, minced shallots and black pepper; and finish with a long pour of an astringent first-press olio verde that attacks the back of the throat.
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The connection between Minimalism and Eastern spirituality (predominantly Buddhism) is also given a closer look through works by artists such as Montien Boonma and Po Po. Boonma's "Nature's Breath: Arokhayasala" (1995), made from perforated metal blocks infused with various herbs, maintains a strong olfactory element that bathes the viewer in an astringent scent reminiscent of the herbal healing practices commonly associated with Buddhist practices whilst repeating the geometric asceticism of Minimalist aesthetics.
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