I bet Thomas McSmart-arse makes some dumb comment about my nose-ring.

Early in December, a rotten day weatherwise, Charley Partanna, CEO of the Prizzi family, sat behind his desk

[…] Mr. Sylvestre shows just as much talent with charcuterie. His pork terrine […] interleaves succulent hunks of various meaty cuts between thick veins of milky lardo.

When things happened that, before, would have knocked her for six, she would be able to laugh herself out of anger.