A large tax reduction would be a pleasing sweetmeat to offer a ravenous electorate just before voting day.
Sebastian wrestled with Adler, pinned him to the mat, made him kneel for a sweetmeat, caught him with a harlot.
The Guiterman smile is teasingthe smile of a verbal sweetmeat-maker who knows how words can be tenderized, much like prunes, to please the palates of the literarily refined.
Chakraborty in Newindpress Joydeb Chakraborty, West Bengal police inspector general (jails), told reporters a short while after the hanging: "He had some sweetmeat and a little bit of curd before stepping on to the gallows. He was calm all the while."