How To Use Hard-boiled In A Sentence
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And yet ever so simple, just hard-boiled eggs soaked overnight in beet juice.
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Which means a hard-boiled grade-A is an ideal muscle-repair food after a butt-busting workout.
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Friday's demonstration had a joyful and entrepreneurial air, with face-painters emblazoning the Egyptian flag on takers young and old, carts with fresh popcorn, and women offering hard-boiled eggs and koshary, the national dish of lentils, rice and pasta topped with a spicy tomato sauce.
A month after revolt, Egyptians march to protect their victory as neighbors demand freedom, too
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Ads urged readers to become skilled, well-paid workers; hard-boiled heroes knocked heads with clients and agency owners over their workplace autonomy.
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Even if the salad is dressed with strips of duck, bits of bacon lardons, goat cheese or sliced hard-boiled eggs, stay the course.
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Given the turbulent and often violent nature of the times, the reasons a writer might choose to reflect them through the medium of hard-boiled detective fiction might seem self-evident.
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Hard-boiled Dreams of the World, winner of the cerebral, intellectually appealing, mentally engrossing and reasonably highbrowed Thinking Blogger Award!
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A practical nurse brought old red wine, a silver tray of smoked salmon, crumbled hard-boiled egg, capers and lemon.
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Woronov's prose occupies bizarre territory, somewhere between twisted lyricism and hard-boiled pulp fiction.
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It's going to be called The Drift, its another hard-boiled fiction.
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A blend of lightly spiced basmati rice and chunks of hard-boiled eggs, egg pilaf is a nutritious one-dish meal.
Archive 2007-01-01
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Healthful choices include a small handful of dried fruit and nuts, whole - grain crackers with a slice of cheese or a hard-boiled egg, or yogurt topped with a tablespoon of granola.
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The film stars Kathleen Turner as the hard-boiled detective of Sarah Paretsky's novel.
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I carried him indoors, and "mothered" the little helpless thing as well as I could, by feeding him with hard-boiled yolk of egg mixed with brown bread and water.
Wild Nature Won By Kindness
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The fascinating thing about him is he's not the cliched cynical and hard-boiled war photographer portrayed in Hollywood movies.
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If the study's rich allegorical approach gives less emphasis to any element of hard-boiled crime fiction, it is the formal aspects of style, point of view, and narrative structure.
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There was a smorgasbord of delicious food, most importantly some hard-boiled and deviled eggs.
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It is hard-boiled Hollywood noir, featuring fantastic dialogue and great performances.
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Let's get one thing straight - Dashiell Hammett is the greatest author of hard-boiled detective fiction there ever was, or ever will be.
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The games have hard-boiled detective stories and John Woo cinematics - the sequel is subtitled ‘A Film Noir Love Story.’
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As Behr calls on old street contacts and his hard-boiled investigative skills, he is led deeper into a twisted society of organized crime and an unknown landscape of "pea-shake" houseslow-rent, transient gambling rings staged in condemned buildings around the city.
Where the Dead Lay by David Levien: Book summary
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Eventually a triangle develops among Hayes, the empath; Samantha Fairbanks, the nice English girl foisted on him by the Company as an assistant; and Garvey, the hard-boiled city cop trying to do an impossible job.
Why Steampunk's Time Has Come
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We used to be served (thrown) SOS as a white sauce with chopped hard-boiled eggs, sometimes peas, and chipped beef on toast or biskets.
Oh, Cecina!
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As a 9-year-old, I would sit on a stool with the wooden bowl on my lap, rocking the mezzaluna back and forth, chopping up the livers and hard-boiled eggs.
One For The Table: Mushroom and Garlic Turkey Liver Pâté
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She forgets she had a hard-boiled egg for breakfast.
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Seemingly placid but boiling with passions - from carnality to intense anger - The Housemaid is a hard-boiled little tale dressed up like something calmer and more measured.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Housemaid
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Conte seems like one of his hard-boiled characters from elsewhere, rather than a celebrated psychiatrist, as he questions Ferrer and listens to his wife.
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[S] hould appeal to hard-boiled fans and canine fanciers alike.
Dog On It by Spencer Quinn: Book summary
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Lovely alongside hard-boiled quail's eggs (as my mother-in-law serves it!)
Rigolo - French Word-A-Day
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Detectives can be hard-boiled, soft-centred, scrambled - brained or gamekeepers turned poachers.
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What prolonged boiling and the aid of bicarbonate of soda leave almost intact the fly's grubs quickly turn into fluid, even as the flesh worms fluidify hard-boiled white of egg.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
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His staff is hard-boiled and believes that no pads means no results.
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Arrange the fish and a couple of quartered hard-boiled eggs in a dish.
The Sun
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The worst that befell me on my stag weekend, held in the sedate surrounds of a barge boat, was a hard-boiled egg eating competition.
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In place of imposing rational discovery, the hard-boiled hero experiences bewildering initiation into the violence just under an urbane surface.
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From the hard-boiled Aunt Vippy in Brooklyn to her loving mother who sends cheesecakes from the family home 12,000 miles away in Australia, all the women in her family are larger than life in both senses of the word.
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Doesn't she realize it's supposed to be hard-boiled to the point of inedibility?
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The hearty breakfast buffet includes hot oatmeal, seasonal fruit, hard-boiled eggs, baked apples and whole-grain breads.
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It has all those qualities of hard-boiled fiction, but is also quite tender and complex.
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At Rue 57, a bustling midtown Manhattan French bistro, along with the hard-boiled eggs displayed on the bar for snacking are salted edamame, a perfect bar nibble.
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The Tatars are known in particular for their wide array of pastries, especially their meat pies, which, besides beef or lamb and onions, may include ingredients such as hard-boiled eggs, rice, and raisins.
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They are unpracticed in introspection, and therefore badly equipped to deal with opponents whom they cannot shoot like big game or outdo in daring … The hard-boiled are compensated for their silence: they fly planes or fight bulls or catch tarpon, whereas I rarely leave my room.
The Great Assimilator
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‘A typical breakfast consists of a mashed up hard-boiled egg, a white soup-like substance, and bread and cream,’ said Chandler.
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Bosch books get called hard-boiled, noir and procedural.
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For breakfast, he pulled yolks from hard-boiled eggs and downed them with oatmeal.
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Indeed, it is difficult to square the homiletic call for virtue as the answer to the ‘human predicament,’ with which he ends the book, with his hard-boiled foreign policy columns.
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I was getting all sorts of rich flavours from a cold hard-boiled egg.
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The era's hepcat lingo "ork" for orchestra, "ofay" for "white" and hard-boiled, noir ambience give Mr. Lauterbach a tune he can carry.
On the Midnight Special
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Chandler has somehow come to embody the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction, although he didn't (as some people seem to believe) create it.
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Once hard-boiled, they would join the sautéed liver and onion in the wooden bowl, which she would hand to me along with the mezzaluna.
One For The Table: Mushroom and Garlic Turkey Liver Pâté
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A steaming bowl of mohinga adorned with vegetable fritters, slices of fish cake and hard-boiled eggs and enhanced with the flavor of chopped coriander leaves, morsels of crispy fried garlic, fish sauce, a squeezing of lime and chilies is a wonderful way of stoking up for the day ahead.
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The role requires a fresh face, but a hard-boiled personality to sell the character.
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Roy's hard-boiled man with a softer side is the forerunner of characters like Sam Spade, and the beginning of film-noir.
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Yes, you can buy bags of already hard-boiled eggs at many grocery stores.
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I've learned to appreciate the snack-stop pickles, especially combined with a hard-boiled egg I snatch at breakfast and save until my body is craving protein after lunch.
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Buy the latest Robert Crais or Robert B. Parker instead, and be pleasantly surprised by how literate, humorous, and touching a hard-boiled detective novel can be.
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The era's hepcat lingo "ork" for orchestra, "ofay" for "white" and hard-boiled, noir ambience give Mr. Lauterbach a tune he can carry.
On the Midnight Special
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True, the city wasn't much like that housing Sam Spade in Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled fiction, but then I knew better than to imagine it would be.
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This knitting pattern shows you how to make an adorable cozy for your hard-boiled egg.
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Serve with hard-boiled eggs and mango chutney.
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As they say in hard-boiled detective novels, the guy's made his choice.
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Serve with hard-boiled eggs and mango chutney.
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As well as having a suitably hard-boiled style, it is wonderfully cast.
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Both salads go well with hard-boiled eggs, but these are an optional extra.
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on-line hard-boiled in-your-face pornography
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This knitting pattern shows you how to make an adorable cozy for your hard-boiled egg.
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David's plan informed me that I was allowed to snack on two celery sticks, half a red pepper, plus some chopped hard-boiled egg white - whereupon I told David to stuff it, and ate a bowl of Frosties and three marshmallows.
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Diced hard-boiled eggs with the shell and whole-grain cereals and wheat bread are also excellent items to add to their diet.
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The hard-boiled reporters in attendance look on in astonishment as the doddering old CEO mimics pumping motions with his arms.
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This salad is very good with hard-boiled eggs and green beans in a mustard vinaigrette with finely chopped shallots.
Times, Sunday Times
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You don't often run across a hard-boiled literary PI who's potbellied, recovers from a beating by pigging out on baked beans and complains to a client's girlfriend that her clothes smell bad when what he's actually reacting to is the cologne she carefully picked out for the day.
Unlikely gumshoe with grit
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When the dough has been shaped into a pyramid, a thick meat and potato stew is poured round it and decorated with whole hard-boiled eggs.
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Rebus, though, is a good deal more than an identikit clone of the hard-boiled detectives whose stock has little varied or improved since Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.
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Peel the hard-boiled eggs and cut off ends - these will make the eyes.
The Sun
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Amid profuse offers of distilled beverages, baloney sandwiches, and hard-boiled eggs, I got in the car and drove off.
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The Big Sleep, the 1946 film based on Raymond Chandler's novel, is a classic example of the hard-boiled detective cliché - before it became a cliché.
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Add hard-boiled eggs and anchovies if you like.
The Sun
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What the cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller has to do with twentieth century hard-boiled detective fiction and nineteenth-century dime novels is beyond me.
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A practical nurse brought old red wine, a silver tray of smoked salmon, crumbled hard-boiled egg, capers and lemon.
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Can they be as hard-boiled and mean as their contemporary criminal counterparts?
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Hash the meat and make it into a stuffing with raisins, stoned ripe olives and hard-boiled eggs minced fine.
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It is precisely the difficulty of extracting this emotionally charged content from the detached, hard-boiled sort that makes sentiment analysis such a tough nut to crack.
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Eat a baked potato with salsa or a bowl of oatmeal with a light sprinkling of brown sugar to help you wind down, and a dish of lentils or a hard-boiled egg if you feel too relaxed.
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The denigrated genres are there in abundance: romance, novelettes, westerns, ‘hard-boiled’ and so on.
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The detective figure in the hard-boiled story, then, operates in a frequently murky borderland between good and evil, where he can never be sure at any given time which is which.
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Of course such a character is the purest confection, which is why such cozy English detective stories are mocked by literary critics and by fans of the hard-boiled crime novel.
'Lord Peter' Returns, And It's No Mystery Why
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V.I. Warshawski has matured into one of the all-time classic hard-boiled detective heroes of American mystery or crime fiction.
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And you want your private detective to be trying hard, but he's still often inept, and he's certainly not two-fisted and not hard-boiled and not very good at handling pain.
Jason Schwartzman, 'Bored' And Loving It
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For hard-boiled fiction, the city is the preferred space - the city viewed from the margins, not the center, from a perspective that provides intimate knowledge of its darkest secrets.
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You can see why Hoskins might nurse an affinity for Rififi, which is as hard-boiled as a 10-minute egg and home to a rogues' gallery of old lags who know all the angles.
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Which is to say, it looked like the ovoid deposit of a metallic dragon-bird, the hard-boiled cackleberry the Statue of Liberty was about to peel for her breakfast.
Skinny Legs and All
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Walter Mosely is one of the few other black hard-boiled writers making an impact.
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Painted on small pieces of canvas board in the manner of a nearly competent illustrator, they feature a hard-boiled dame with a mannish haircut, very possibly the artist's image of herself.
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Even hard-boiled sceptics will be stupefied at what is on sale there in place of the current literature: Neatly arranged and priced, as if they were the major works on the Nazi era, are the administrative reports of the memorial.
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A practical nurse brought old red wine, a silver tray of smoked salmon, crumbled hard-boiled egg, capers and lemon.
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It is good served with roast chicken, lamb chops or hard-boiled eggs and is perfect for the lunchbox.
Times, Sunday Times
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• Snack and lunch-box favorites: Peanut butter and jelly on whole-grain bread, cheese cubes, hard-boiled eggs, baby carrots, raisins.
Family meals made cheap, healthy, easy
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I felt so pumped by this little achievement, I was able to face my dry toast and hard-boiled egg with glee.
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Since then, Johnson has established himself as a novelist with the large, messy talent of a hard-boiled poet.
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She's the English version of a hard-boiled dick, tougher than most all her country's male detectives, public or private.
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Spoon cottage cheese mixture into hard-boiled egg halves and refrigerate.
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A jumbled curiosity of a film, Charlie isn't sure whether it wants to be a hard-boiled gangster thriller, a thoughtful biography, or a legal drama.
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Sophie Grigson makes a Germanic salad with beetroot, potato, pickled herrings, hard-boiled egg, onion and chopped cornichons, bound together with mayo.
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Even if the salad is dressed with strips of duck, bits of bacon lardons, goat cheese or sliced hard-boiled eggs, stay the course.
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These unbelievably hard-boiled women, one has already lost an eye and looks like Captain Ahab, transform over the course of the year from dry joke tellers to ticking time bombs.
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Like its predecessors, Killing Time opens with a hard-boiled New York-based psychologist hunting down a madman.
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Revelation's story is all about Drake's evolution as an adventurer, so we needed a flexible character - someone who isn't a hard-boiled guy from the start.
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A hard-boiled egg makes the pesto thick and creamy without having to use excessive amounts of oil.
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Then there is the more modern, hard-boiled style.
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His disarming professorial habit of asking hard-boiled members of the press to repeat his words of wisdom after him (which he himself has repeated anyhow) somehow never seems offensive.
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Once hard-boiled, they would join the sautéed liver and onion in the wooden bowl, which she would hand to me along with the mezzaluna.
One For The Table: Mushroom and Garlic Turkey Liver Pâté
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Into each bowl he measures a few scoops of high-grade kibble, sprinkles on some raisins, and chops half a hard-boiled egg on top.
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Following the dictates of the hard-boiled detective genre Jones plays with, there had to be violence in every episode, but I didn't want it to be without consequence, you know?
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Plus, I switch the protein shakes with hard-boiled egg whites.
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That could mean munching on live sea horses or hard-boiled fertilized duck eggs — though steering clear of adulterated chicken breasts.
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Before serving mash a few hard-boiled eggs to a crumble with a fork and scatter them on the leeks.
The Sun
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He tried to eat 50 hard-boiled eggs, for a wager.
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Stir in the cooked fish carefully along with the hard-boiled eggs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Casual Rex is a prequel to Garcia's debut novel Anonymous Rex, which was an excellent hard-boiled detective story set in modern times, but with a slight difference: dinosaurs still exist.
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Next day they can make their own salad plates with slices of salami, ham, sticks of cheese or hard-boiled eggs.
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In the past, the only contrast was between the grey tinge of the hard-boiled egg and the beetroot dye bleeding all over the plate.
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The dentist exchanged some veal sandwiches with a Jew for ham ones; a lawyer from the Borough offered two slices of toast for a hard-boiled egg; in fact there was a petty market "ouvert" held.
Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities
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Arrange the fish and a couple of quartered hard-boiled eggs in a dish.
The Sun
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The convention of extralegality for a just cause antedates the advent of hard-boiled heroes.
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It is a hard-edged, hard-nosed, hard-boiled, in-your-face and deeply profane concept, and any approach contrary to that will once again flush film 1's legacy of emotional truth into the sewer of mediocrity, sealing the property away - perhaps forever - in the caverns of the untouchable.
Robocop Screenwriter Says Darren Aronofsky is Still Attached | /Film
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Texture's certainly the reason I despised hard-boiled egg yolks, though it doesn't explain my fear of eating potato salad.
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Fortunately for her and for Santa, the problem was obviated by one of the most extraordinary events in the record of this admittedly extraordinary chronicle: The Invasion of the Hard-boiled Eggs. The Origins of the DylanThomassist Insurrection
Part the Eighth: The Meaning of Christmas « Unknowing
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And Elvis crops up again to battle mutant Martian teddy bears (with the aid of Finland's president!) in the bizarre "Hard-boiled Kekkonen," by Matti Hagelberg.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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Of course such a character is the purest confection, which is why such cozy English detective stories are mocked by literary critics and fans of the hard-boiled crime novel.
NPR Topics: News
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This year, why not have them search for both real hard-boiled colored eggs as well as chocolate eggs?
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As NBA teams continue to grovel to Mr. James by unleashing hokey gimmicks the Knicks revived Tony Soprano for a promotional movie; the Cavaliers lined the streets with loyal fans; the L.A. Clippers offered a hard-boiled egg and validated parking the hidden cost is how much the 25-year-old's yawny free-agency waltz is diverting attention from actually interesting sporting events.
Tale of LeTape: The Weekend's Big Stories
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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg. Maya Angelou
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He wanted us to see through Brian O’Nolan and his hard-boiled Dublin dismissiveness, to see beyond the local legend of wasted talent.
The Last Laugh
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It remains one of Polanski's best, and a precursor to themes he would continually dabble in: tortured relationships, bizarre blonde behavior, infidelity, cross-dressing, even film noir via the stalwart Lionel Stander (best known here for his role in Hart to Hart but who should be known as the blacklisted, veteran hard-boiled American character actor).
Kim Morgan: Ten of Polanski's Best...Kitty Cat
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A practical nurse brought old red wine, a silver tray of smoked salmon, crumbled hard-boiled egg, capers and lemon.
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A chicken stuffed with rice, nuts, onions, spices, and shelled hard-boiled eggs is placed inside a whole, slaughtered lamb.
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My favorite part of The Sun Also Rises is when Jake thinks about how it is easier to be hard-boiled during the day than at night. booksherpa
The Sun Also Rises on My Preconceptions « Looking for Roots
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I read village mysteries and hard-boiled American private eye novels, spy thrillers and police procedurals.
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Stuffed hard-boiled eggs, most often called deviled eggs, can be spicy, plain or very exotic.
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Either by accident or by design, Hawks created a rather kooky film instead of the hard-boiled movie that it pretends to be.
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Tea/supper Wholemeal bread spread with a small jar of anchovy paste and topped with a chopped hard-boiled egg.
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This may include folar, a cake made of sweet dough and topped with hard-boiled eggs.
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It turns out to be a neglected work of smart, tense, hard-boiled crime comix with more going on than just the usual violence.
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Once again, Geoff reached the crux of the procedure: coaxing the lens through the small incision, a move about as easy as extracting the yolk from a hard-boiled egg without removing the shell.
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The detective story is superficially part of the hard-boiled tradition, but a vein of absurdism, a hint of Kafka, distorts the naturalism.
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Most of the stories printed here were first published in Black Mask, a pulp fiction magazine which epitomised the unsentimental, bracing, hard-boiled style of which Hammett proved the prototype.
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After serving in the military in World War II, Raymond returned to the comic page with this, a sophisticated contrast to the then-popular hard-boiled detective.
Rip Kirby » Comics Worth Reading
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Make double batches of rice, pasta, baked potatoes, hard-boiled eggs and chili.
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It's a kind of hard-boiled detective novel in the style of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
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slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach
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There were bowls of coleslaw and potato salad laced with green peas, buttered garlic rolls and hard-boiled eggs.
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There were bowls of coleslaw and potato salad laced with green peas, buttered garlic rolls and hard-boiled eggs.
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Then take your little spoon and moosh the filling back into the hard-boiled whites, making sure to accidentally split one or three of them so that you have to eat the failures.
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He disappears for ten minutes to eat his hard-boiled egg and rice cake, and then takes me back into his consulting room.
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The hard-boiled hero's rapport with oppressed and marginalized people has a well-articulated rationale.
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Two hard-boiled eggs, yoghurt and granola and some berries on the side.
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A hard-boiled man who wants payback on the wrong side of the law comes to town and gets it.
Parker: The Hunter » Comics Worth Reading
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Cautiously I pushed my thumb in even harder, doing that thing where you scrunch up your face as if that makes it so it won't splash me, only to discover that the blessed thing was hard-boiled!
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Although a stream of hard-boiled wisecracks keeps things amusing, the plot gets tied up in the usual dreary whodunit business of providing motives for all and sundry, and it's difficult to care very much about the jealousies, lecheries and treacheries between cardboard characters.
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American forties noir was based on the often very dark popular novels of the twenties and thirties, dominated by the rise of what has come to be known as the hard-boiled school of crime fiction.
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I'll often get a salad, and then put hard-boiled egg whites and turkey on it, maybe some fish, and grab some fruit for dessert.
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There was a smorgasbord of delicious food, most importantly some hard-boiled and deviled eggs.
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At Rue 57, a bustling midtown Manhattan French bistro, along with the hard-boiled eggs displayed on the bar for snacking are salted edamame, a perfect bar nibble.
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By the time the opening titles assault the viewer with a hard-edged metallic clunk, Nowhere To Hide has already set itself up as a hard-boiled gangster/detective film that is slick, fast and furious.
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After worship I engaged in a last breakfast consisting of a small loaf of wheat bread, two pieces of goat cheese, a hard-boiled egg, ouzo and a cup of Turkish coffee.
Rev. Malcolm Boyd: My Trek To A Holy Mountain
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He adds anchovy fillets to stews and casseroles instead of sea salt, and can't face a hard-boiled egg without an anchovy curled up on top of it.
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Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett have taught Huge everything he needs to know about being a hard-boiled detective ... and hes just been hired to solve his first case.
Huge: Summary and book reviews of Huge by James Fuerst.
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Don't overcook the eggs, because you'll get brown and frazzled fried eggs, chewy omelets, and green hard-boiled eggs.
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The unorthodox approach of child protection lecturer Dr Sue Hamilton caused a flutter of discomfort among the hard-boiled audience, but at the seminar on youth development it was to be politics, not sex, which aroused the football men.
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Shame on you for enjoying that hard-boiled egg on your chef's salad.
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He then smiled charmingly as he offered me a hard-boiled egg from his plate, warning that the yolk had been removed.