Sentences with phrase «occasional lost cause»

Confession: I'm addicted to the crime fiction of Michael Connelly, with a bullet next to the page - turners featuring attorney Mickey Haller, defender of desperate scumbags and the occasional lost cause.

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I opened my copy of The Zuni Café Cookbook and using the sage advice from the author, the late Chef (and occasional co-worker) Judy Rodgers, I warmed some pistachios, just enough to encourage them to soon release their precious oil, but not enough to toast them through, which would cause them to lose their color.

The dual - clutch automatic upshifts without losing momentum, which is supercool, but suffers occasional delays and hiccups caused by a conflict between the need to preselect the next gear and the inability of the black box to predict the unpredictable, such as an aborted passing maneuver.