Hints and tips:
...The RHS mark of approval appears on Mr Fothergill’s seed packets of the hybrid cucumber Emilie, described as “succulent” and “smooth-skinned”: it is too bland for a good talatourie....
...Today, it’s applied to a bland, grey suburb of north-east Paris and a Métro station serving quiet line 11 and even quieter 3 bis....
...With his early career spent in the kitchens of L’Arpège in Paris and San Domenico in Emilia-Romagna, Café Carmellini is the theatrical culmination of exquisite French and Italian cuisine — think Dover sole...
...Brown surely absorbed some of her taste for the morbid trompe l’oeil from Salvador Dalí, who liked to superimpose dewy female forms on ominous skulls....
...It may be that to protest doesn’t quite match Voltaire’s “écrasez l’infâme” (crush infamy), quoted by Schama....
...“It proved to be a real struggle to find anywhere suitable in Perth, where I was working in a bland old industrial building,” says Fraser....
...The interior is a little Scandi-bland, a sea of mid-century style grey soft-furnishings and blond wood. But it does have the advantage of not detracting from the drama outside....
...Nicky Haslam’s trompe l’oeil Shutter Stripe fabric, for example, always looks fantastic when made into blinds....
...By contrast, Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges, no ordinary opera, does not get ordinary treatment....
...In the 2014 film Kingsman, Samuel L Jackson tells Colin Firth that a McDonald’s cheeseburger “goes great with this ’45 Lafite”....
...Rising up to three storeys high, the Discovery Bay houseboats vary from 1,200 to 3,000 sq ft and are kitted out with all mod cons, home offices, sundecks and the sort of hefty dining tables and L-shaped...
...Albert Camus’s seminal 1942 study of alienation The Outsider (L’Étranger) is not an easy fit for stage....
...Trompe l’oeil is everywhere....
...Between him serving us champagne, a bottle of 1996 R&L Legras and a bottle of 1999 Cornas from Thierry Allemand, we learn this is not the case....
...Millennials will often experiment with edgier brands such as Urban Decay, which was acquired by L’Oréal in 2012....
...For Cara Delevingne, the answer has been to sport a bald head, a sure standout amid a sea of somewhat bland-looking long-haired lovelies....
...L’Oréal did not immediately respond to a request for comment....
...After such a good start, the mozzarella and strawberries salad feels bland, but we take comfort in the mighty whole salmon — over one metre long, from Scotland, cooked in a crust of salt — to which we are...
...The score, mixed live by musician and DJ Ori Lichtik, provides the movement with a bland, relentless techno pulse....
...But while Hong Kongers accused it of “kowtowing”, analysts say it is little wonder L’Oréal, the French cosmetics group that owns Lancôme, gave in to threats of a boycott in China, its second-biggest market...
...Almost single-voicedly, the lively Italian tenor brought distinction to an otherwise drab L’elisir d’amore on Thursday. The Met, not incidentally, yawned with empty seats....
...This deceptively bland self-description is actually as good a way as any of getting at what makes Scott’s criticism such a pleasure to read....
...The Tour Bois-le-Prêtre, on the edge of the Périphérique in the 19th Arrondissement was a bland, generic 1960s tower....
...Juan Muñoz’s “Balcon/nes” is an isolated balcony railing incongruously mounted to transform a bland white wall into a space for contemplation....
...The L’Avenue restaurant offers a mix of souped-up local dishes such as fried rice and standard international fare. The Hermitage Lounge has coffee, alcoholic drinks and a dedicated cigar room....
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