Instinct and a brash and breezy agak agak style is the way men occasional chefs, not professional ones cook.

Dickinson's iconography of suffering, with its sexualized pleasure-pain, Catholicizes austere American Protestantism.

There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

For a while on “Breakthrough,” as with Ms. Caillat’s debut album, “Coco,” it appears as if she’s content to remain polite, an unfussy swooner.