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  • s  having the sticky properties of an adhesive

  • The global economy, you might say, now resembles the sort of congealed, cold, gray, glutinous bowl of oatmeal, curling up at the edges, that was once to be found in the lesser sort .
  • Afterwards I walk to Chinatown, where merchants hawk watermelons, pearls, watches and glutinous rice cakes.
  • Villagers give lessons in how to cook local curries as well as delicacies like dodol, a soft cake made from durian, coconut and glutinous rice.
News & Articles

  • A Dozen Cronuts Sold For $14,000
    Cronuts make people do crazy things. They form long , hours-long lines . Scalpers sell them for $40/piece . Jerry Seinfeld makes his assistant buy them so he can make glutinous Vines . They dig in the trash for them . They bring them to find Banksy statues. Thankfully, the decadent pastry's creator Dominique Ansel has channeled this fever for the force of good: Last night, a dozen Cronuts were ...
    Oct. 23, 2013 - Gothamist
Quotes

  • Boris Johnson in Independent
    Mr Johnson said: "I want to plant my flag very firmly in Jacqui Smith's remarks and stress this was a matter of almost glutinous cross-party consensus. There was agreement in the police authority, there has been agreement in large measure across the...
  • Ian Holloway in Sportinglife.com
    Holloway explained that Baidoo "got a knee in the glutinous maximus" and felt Hamilton had been "put on in an area he hadn't played before and it showed".
  • Sir Ian Blair in InTheNews.co.uk
    The mayor, who played a central role in the resignation of Sir Ian, said he "agreed with everything Jacqui and Sir Paul had said", adding that he planted his flag very clearly in the middle of this "glutinous cross party agreement"....

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