Kinsley is correct to say we need leaders brave enough to practice astringency, telling people what they don't want to hear.
The songs, mostly written and produced with the formidable David Ricketts, soar and surprise; the lyrics have a spare astringency, which is just the right tone in which to tell .
In the chronology of the English comedy of manners, Anglo-Irish Dion Boucicault flounders between the astringency of Sheridan and the epigrams of Wilde.
CUESA Farm Tours: Viewing the Small Farmer in His Natural Habitat The fresh asparagus stalk was sweet, tender, and mild as spinach, with just a hint of the vegetable's usual astringency. It was the best I'd ever tasted, though its flavor was certainly enhanced by where I was standing: in a field of asparagus 12 feet below sea level, on an island in the middle o...
April 29, 2014 - SF Weekly