chocolate-box

I walk into the scrupulously spotless store, and the first thing I see is an adorable girl with retro chocolate-box prettiness and 40s red lipstick smiling at me from behind the counter.

Neil Zevnik: Small Town Hearts in the Big City: A Slow Food Tale Neil Zevnik 2011

I walk into the scrupulously spotless store, and the first thing I see is an adorable girl with retro chocolate-box prettiness and 40s red lipstick smiling at me from behind the counter.

Neil Zevnik: Small Town Hearts in the Big City: A Slow Food Tale Neil Zevnik 2011

I walk into the scrupulously spotless store, and the first thing I see is an adorable girl with retro chocolate-box prettiness and 40s red lipstick smiling at me from behind the counter.

Neil Zevnik: Small Town Hearts in the Big City: A Slow Food Tale Neil Zevnik 2011

So exhilarating was Joker's early output, he was able to get away with calling it not dubstep but "purple"; a name with the unintended consequence of making you think either of chocolate-box poetry or brutally potent marijuana.

Joker: The Vision – review 2011

The series deconstructs the very chocolate-box works of William-Adolphe Bouguereau, which are quintessential in their idyllic imagery and comfortably absorbed into a mainstream acceptance of art and history.

Jersey City Artist Graham McNamara Talks About His Work, the Studio Tour, and the Business of Art The Jersey City Independent 2010

I walk into the scrupulously spotless store, and the first thing I see is an adorable girl with retro chocolate-box prettiness and 40s red lipstick smiling at me from behind the counter.

Neil Zevnik: Small Town Hearts in the Big City: A Slow Food Tale Neil Zevnik 2011

Whether you first hear the scream of racing engines as you get off the train from Nice and emerge from the modern station hidden away in the bowels of the earth, or you encounter it while entering the harbour on a boat, with the whole widescreen panorama of a chocolate-box palace and brutalist high-rise apartment blocks laid out in front of you, the effect is infallibly magical.

Monaco grand prix: The race where heroes are made 2010

Grieg's Holberg Suite must hold some sort of record as the classical chocolate-box favourite least often programmed at the Proms – just four hearings in 115 years until this week.

Norwegian CO 2010

Despite its cutesy air of chocolate-box Paris, The Elegance of the Hedgehog is, by the end, quite radical in its stand against French classism and hypocrisy.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog: Summary and book reviews of The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. 2008

This is a chocolate-box beautiful, often shimmeringly colourful and always slightly surreal two-and-a - half hours taken from the epic play that tells the story of Yoshitsune, the 12th-century military commander who fell out with his older brother, Yoritomo.

Kabuki 2010