The filmmakers — Ron Shelton directing a David Ayer script based on a James Ellroy story — obviously want us to swallow a bitter pill, but traditionally Hollywood genres, even the LA cop thriller, are sweet and don't have
much of an aftertaste.
Not exact matches
The «poisoned chalice» has been a political trope since the day it was uttered on stage in 1606 during the first run
of Shakespeare's Macbeth, and a bitter
aftertaste was pretty
much the only thing the PC party left behind for Notley.
In my experience, all stevia tends to give too
much of an unpleasant
aftertaste.
It wasn't the Splenda flavor I'm used to, but it also didn't have
much of a distinguishable
aftertaste — a problem I've had with pretty
much every other sweetener I've tried.
For example, pure stevia may give the ice - cream a slightly bitter
aftertaste, especially if I use too
much of it and that's why I add Erythritol too.
High grade products that use only grade A and B plants and separate out as
much of the stems, roots, and leaf veins as possible will have a
much better, sweeter taste, without the bitter
aftertaste that many stevia products have.
FYI, one always has to be careful with baking soda as you can easily add too
much and end up with kind
of a metallic / soapy
aftertaste.
The consistency
of those beet muffins was
much better, but my hubby said that they could still be a little bit sweeter + he could sense the
aftertaste of stevia.
The film is uproariously funny, but its laughs don't come with an
aftertaste of cynicism so
much as they are the
aftertaste of cynicism.
For sure, a dish where luck runs
much of the boards, and limits players as a consequence
of the streamlined car and captain mechanics, has an
aftertaste which can be difficult to acquire, the vibrance
of each board, the always - spectacular minigames, and new mechanics like Captain Events and Boss Battles keep the life in the party.
If that ideal is to keep you enthralled for a couple
of hours and leave a minimum
of aftertaste, then Tim Burton's SF comedy pretty
much fills the bill.
Holly could make for a funny third - wheel Nancy Drew, ostensibly becoming the parent in the absence
of her mother and the incompetence
of her alcoholic father, but seeing the young girl in persistent danger
of physical or mortal danger leaves a bad
aftertaste to
much of the action moments, and even when not in the middle
of a violent confrontation, her idealized character feels unnatural and scripted.
When
much of American pop culture was infatuated with the swinging, psychedelic 1960s, John Frankenheimer was focused on the decade's darker side — the sour
aftertaste of McCarthyism, the expanding military - industrial complex, the growing sense that technology might be controlling us instead
of the other way around.
With the delirious
aftertaste of E. L James» books, there is no doubt how erotica has become
much more socially accepted.
Yes, it was a struggle to keep the shark down in the presence
of fiercely nationalistic Icelanders, but when I tried it, the hákarl was actually somewhat sweet and initially there isn't
much taste... it's the
aftertaste that lingers pungently.