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  • Mr. Sinicropi's cookbook, "Small Delights, Great Movies" Ramsay Press, is a cinematic romp, with 60 recipes ranging from classic epics—"Star Wars" yields iced risotto with shrimp and melon on sword-like spears—to "Apocalypse Now," featuring squares of venison with caviar and red-cabbage purée with watercress and pumpkin, artfully arranged as a kind of maze.

    The Other Cannes Film Festival Lanie Goodman 2011

  • He says female cicadas use a sword-like organ, called an ovipositor, to slice into small tree branches and insert their eggs.

    Cicadas Swarm Wide Portions of US 2011

  • In an urn beside her driveway, an orange nasturtium basked in the sunlight against the misty, silvery sheen of Lotus berthelotii's feathery foliage and an Agave's tough rosette of green sword-like leaves.

    Suzy Bales: Fake Flowers: Ever Green and Always Growing Suzy Bales 2010

  • The sword-like leaves of yellow flag stand highest – straight and sharp, still dewed with raindrops from an earlier shower.

    Country diary 2010

  • Aztecs believed that hummingbirds, forever chasing one another with sword-like beaks, were resurrected warriors, returned to life so they could continue their battles in the sky.

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

  • The candle-lighting involves going round every table in the pitch dark with a big sword-like fire lighter and lighting a candle in the middle of each table.

    Kimono wearing and ownership: part 1 of 2 2008

  • In an urn beside her driveway, an orange nasturtium basked in the sunlight against the misty, silvery sheen of Lotus berthelotii's feathery foliage and an Agave's tough rosette of green sword-like leaves.

    Suzy Bales: Fake Flowers: Ever Green and Always Growing 2009

  • The floor of the stomach possesses a sword-like projection of its internal lining.

    Mollusca 2007

  • Sword and staff, or talents sword-like or staff-like, carry on the work of the world.

    Representative Men 2006

  • A related form was a samurai-esque emphasis on clean lines, shapely, sword-like forms, and some gibberish about “the way” being applied to consumerism.

    Japanophilia 2006

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