Sentences with phrase «bit as a bartender»

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As the bartender will warn you, «Unos pican y otros non «-- «some are hot and the others are not» — but until you bite into them, you don't know which of those little green peppers is going to blow your taste buds away.

In The Drop, Tom Hardy offers a subdued performance as a bartender in a two - bit dive that gets held up by crooks who apparently don't realize that they're stealing mob money.

While this in itself is a bit of an overstatement (there is plenty of insightful travel journalism out there to offset the generic pap), Thompson proceeds with an accurate roundup of the elements that conspire to create bad travel writing: throw - away words like «hip,» «happening,» «sun - drenched,» «undiscovered,» and «magical»; imperative language that urges the reader to «do» this, «eat» that, «go» here; stories that depict tourism workers (taxi drivers, hotel clerks, bartenders) as «local color»; the fake narrative «raisons d'etre writers invent to justify their travels»; the untraveled writers and editors who assemble authoritative - sounding travel «roundups» from Internet research; the conflicts of interest that arise when writers fund their travels with industry - subsidized «comps»; publications running what is essentially the same story over and over again, never questioning stereotype assumptions about certain parts of the world.