Positive connotation:
- It's my favorite part of India.
- Kerala is a success story of the developing world.
- In the settlement called Mattanchery is a palace known as the Dutch Palace (originally Portuguese, it was restored and expanded by the Dutch), the highlight of which is a series of beautiful murals depicting scenes from the Ramayana.
- It's a mannered, gestural, ritualistic dance theatre, similar in some ways to other Asian dance idioms, such as Indonesian and Japanese forms.
- It was a lovely, idyllic place, and I felt a bit like Gauguin arriving in Tahit.
- The mildest thing one would want to say about this horrid dry pink innovation, which sweated under the grill and fell to bits under the knife, was that it was less than a sausage.
- Which is precisely what has been happening to food and much else on a grand or rather a pathetic scale.
- There is a word that usefully captures this trend to the insipid and denatured, and it is "Lite."
- Lite is insipid, weak, denatured, flat, diluted, and easy: food for cowards and children.
- So booming Lite business gives us a picture of the American and British consumer of food. He is ignorant, timid, squeamish, and childish.