How To Use Acquired taste In A Sentence

  • Art is an acquired taste — no one is born knowing that Michelangelo is wonderful.
  • Abstract art is an acquired taste.
  • Art is an acquired taste — no one is born knowing that Michelangelo is wonderful.
  • Let's just say it's an acquired taste. Times, Sunday Times
  • Protein bars are a popular choice with body builders - although they are also expensive and some find them an acquired taste. Times, Sunday Times
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  • The fen part of the county, with its vast horizons and lonely windswept fields, has always been an acquired taste.
  • It is an acquired taste and is said to build in flavour like a classical crescendo. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is an acquired taste for sensitive palates but a lot of hungry people are only too happy to tuck in.
  • Art is an acquired taste — no one is born knowing that Michelangelo is wonderful.
  • Certainly, the former, part caterwaul and part coy coo, will be an acquired taste.
  • This was an acquired taste. Times, Sunday Times
  • martinis are an acquired taste
  • Broad beans are very much an acquired taste.
  • An acquired taste has been created, which suffers under disappointment as cruelly as when the Greenlander is deprived of his whale-blubber, the Gascon of his garlic, and the East Indian of his curry.
  • Abstract art is an acquired taste.
  • Certainly, the former, part caterwaul and part coy coo, will be an acquired taste.
  • What apparently began as a necessity in due course became an acquired taste. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
  • The queen of Newfoundland and Labrador berries, the bakeapple has an acquired taste that we like to think is addictive.
  • Salt is an acquired taste and habit. The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
  • For many people, her dry humor is an acquired taste.
  • The salty yolk in the middle, representing the full moon, is an acquired taste.
  • Grace said ... first of all, i enjoy when muffins look like mushrooms. secondly, although i think allspice is kinda an acquired taste, i love it, especially in a moist muffin. An Allspice Variation On Whole Grain Sour Cream Muffins
  • Though he remains an acquired taste in Britain, Williams's position in American poetry, at least, seems assured.
  • Decadence remains an acquired taste, whereas decency is as fundamental as common sense.
  • Curry is an acquired taste and heavily spiced food is surely not suitable for the stomachs of very young children.
  • The expression dolent may thus satisfy the student familiar with Italian, because it calls up in his mind, through the medium of its equivalent dolente, the same associations which the latter calls up in the mind of the Italian himself. 9 But this power of appreciating thoroughly the beauties of a foreign tongue is in the last degree an acquired taste, -- as much so as the taste for olives and kirschenwasser to the carnal palate. The Unseen World, and Other Essays
  • Drinking the bitter root extract is an acquired taste, but the effects are quite pleasant -- mild euphoria, amicability and greatly reduced anxiety. Michael Balick, Ph.D.: Sakau: Powerful Plant From the Pacific Islands
  • Curry is an acquired taste and heavily spiced food is surely not suitable for the stomachs of very young children.
  • When it comes out it is, ahem, an acquired taste. The Sun
  • They are like sushi, maybe an acquired taste.
  • Some smoking and alcoholic drinks are an acquired taste and are not in born.
  • The book is an acquired taste, but on stage it revealed itself as an entertaining character comedy thanks to a set of brilliant performances led by Ward as a catty matriarch driven by self-interest.
  • Some alcoholic drinks are an acquired taste and are not liked at first.
  • They say appreciation of this instrument is an acquired taste, but I can feel it and I know it is the same feeling that calliopes evoked in me long before I had even heard of uillean pipes. OpEdNews - Diary: Something in a Name
  • Marmot meat is an acquired taste though, being reputedly strong, stringy and tough.
  • It is an acquired taste for sensitive palates but a lot of hungry people are only too happy to tuck in.
  • Certainly, if last night's showing was anything to go by, his work was somewhat abstract and obscure, and obviously an acquired taste.
  • It is an acquired taste for sensitive palates but a lot of hungry people are only too happy to tuck in.
  • The honest captain had caught this word from a recent treatise against agrarianism, and having an acquired taste for orders in one sense, at least, he flattered himself with being what is called a Conservative, in other words, he had a strong relish for that maxim of the Scotch freebooter, which is rendered into English by the comely aphorism of "keep what you've got, and get what you can. Homeward Bound or, the Chase
  • It is very mannered, very strange and very much an acquired taste.
  • The food is quite good - Mexican, barbecue, chili, shrimp and chicken-fried steak, an acquired taste.
  • Rafal Kozik, £1.49 Although something of an acquired taste, the board game's winning mix of strategy and competition seems to translate unerringly to iPad, as does building colourful networks of railways across North America against the computer, friends or strangers online.iPad only, Days Of Wonder, £4.99 With side-on 2D courses that defy both conventional architecture and the laws of physics, Super Stickman Golf is a beautifully made game of risk and reward. IPod, iPhone & iPad games round-up
  • Stuff which is rather too much for most people, is an acquired taste which appeals to the lopsided and idiosyncratic. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's a curious little place and an acquired taste. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perception, whether through vision or any other sense, is an acquired taste.
  • This habit of taking tobacco gradually extended from the extremities of the north to those of the south, and, in one form or other, seems to be equally grateful to the inhabitants of every climate; and by a singular caprice of the human species, no less inexplicable than unexampled (so bewitching is the acquired taste for Confederate Prisoners at Roanoke Island
  • Some smoking and alcoholic drinks are an acquired taste and are not in born.
  • Broad beans are very much an acquired taste.
  • The waiters (to a man debonair and charming) overfill the glasses and it is a somewhat acquired taste - like sucking raw damsons - but once you get over the astringency, it is appealingly cheap.
  • Much like the film it alludes to, this is an acquired taste, but worth taking a chance on, nonetheless.
  • It is an acquired taste and I quite like it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Art is an acquired taste — no one is born knowing that Michelangelo is wonderful.
  • The ripe jackfruit is good to eat; although with its distinct aroma, it is something of an acquired taste. Archive 2005-10-01
  • It is true that, as a singer, he can seem an acquired taste. Times, Sunday Times
  • Interest in planetaria is, I should say, an acquired taste; but there can be no doubt as to the industry and ingenuity of this inventor. A Wanderer in Holland

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