"You surely remember me, father?" he asked, almost dripping with unctuousness.
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The luscious, warm, grainy flesh melts into the cool unctuousness of cream.
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Playing Richard's suave co-conspirator, the "deep-revolving witty Buckingham," Rory Nolan provides a sharply observed portrait of political unctuousness.
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Food that has a giving unctuousness, food that is cooked with love and also gives love—massaging you from the inside out.
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His first two solo albums, "Justified" and "FutureSex/LoveSounds," were standard-bearers of how to grow boy-band unctuousness into grown-man smolder.
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It had, and will always have, a faint, chalky mouth-feel, which the unctuousness of salted French butter will completely smooth out in the finished dish.
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"Beef dripping toasts" that had the crispness of a wafer and the rich unctuousness of bone marrow accompanied a venison tartare topped with shavings of cured egg yolk.
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Most notable is the introduction of the Startouch elf mage Aaravos, voiced by Erik Dellums with the same unctuousness that he brought to the face-stealing spirit Koh in Avatar.
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If you eat it right away, taking advantage of its peak warm, crunchy, salty unctuousness, you won't even wish it were pizza—which is good, because there's no pizza here.
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GANZ That signature Ne-Yo unctuousness — not altogether unpleasant, it should be said — is in full effect on his rendition of "The Christmas Song," the best chestnut on his debut holiday collection.
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What keeps us watching is how Platt plays Evan's greed for popularity: with his unctuousness, his dishonesty, and his wounds, Evan is like an entitled nebbish, slightly oily around the edges, which isn't the same thing as vulnerability.
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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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At first, Golyadkin and his double are friends, but Golyadkin Jr. proceeds to attempt to take over Sr.'s life, and they become bitter enemies. Because Golyadkin Jr. has all the charm, unctuousness and social skills that Golyadkin Sr. lacks, he is very well-liked among the office colleagues. At the story's conclusion, Golyadkin Sr. begins to see many replicas of himself, has a psychotic break, and is dragged off to an asylum by Doctor Rutenspitz.
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More film roles promptly followed, with appearances in the studio production My New Gun, and a small role in the comedy Leap of Faith, starring Steve Martin. Following these roles, he gained attention playing a spoiled student in the Oscar-winning Al Pacino film Scent of a Woman (1992). Hoffman auditioned five times for his role, which The Guardian journalist Ryan Gilbey says gave him an early opportunity "to indulge his skill for making unctuousness compelling". The film earned US$134 million worldwide and was the first to get Hoffman noticed.
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Comedy critic Bruce Dessau described the episode as containing "a nice if not very subtle critique" of the value of celebrity, and noted that there was "a flicker" of "The Pardoner's Tale", a story from writer Geoffrey Chaucer's collection The Canterbury Tales. Rebecca McQuillan, writing in The Herald, felt the episode captures the "sheer unctuousness" of fandom. She added that, as the plot advances, the venal and vulgar attitudes which are initially hidden behind the characters' fake grins are revealed. For her, the story takes place around Tamsin, who looks "worldly and disappointed with the human race".
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These would be his final works and included a portrait of Powell in Volume 21. Thomas Butler Gunn, illustrator and writer, worked for Powell during the 1850s and wrote about him in his diaries. He believed that Dickens had based the character of Wilkins Micawber on Powell, saying that he resembled him both physically and in his mannerisms. Gunn’s less-than-complimentary description of Powell goes on: > He is very familiar in conversation, and his speech has a sort of orotund > unctuousness of accent which, in conjunction with his implied knowledge of > every-body, might easily gull people into the belief that he was rather a > witty man of the world than otherwise.
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