• Much of the first part of the movie is given over to raptly silent passages of physical effort men lifting, hauling, pounding, working silently in the muck and viscous slime.

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  • The two white grapes, Chenin Blanc and Pinot Gris, went well with almost everything the pork, the chicken, the pasta and the salmon all fit, and the wines were rich and viscous but also minerally and clean. (I tasted both domestic and imported examples of each grape.) The only sticking point was, unsurprisingly, the steak.

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  • Bitumen is so low in capacity to produce gasoline and so viscous and dense, it cannot be processed directly.

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  • Beet cocktails offer vibrant autumn colors, earthy-sweet flavors and a viscous mouthfeel.

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  • On several islands where the crude washed ashore, including Naked Island and Knight Island, a visitor even now can turn over a rock and find viscous black crud.

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  • Freeze-frame, slow motion, colour filters and smoke give the film a distinctly undigital tone, viscous and personal, that focuses attention on the excellent performances of Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey and Fairuza Balk.

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  • The search thus began for a liquid that was both viscous and highly reflective.

    ECONOMIST: Mirror, mirror

  • Viscous and a tad sweet, the drink skews a bit toward the desserty side like a liquid version of banana bread pudding but no one's going to scoff if you have one pre-dinner.

    WSJ: Monkeying With Whiskey | Half Full

  • With nothing but viscous sauces and foie gras plodding through my head, I feared that I had painted myself into a culinary corner.

    NPR: Cool and Comforting Ceviche

  • Bitumen is a category of organically-based liquids that are highly viscous, black, and sticky.

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  • But perhaps you need more exposure to slag, sewage pumps, adhesion promoters, viscous fluid dosing machines and state-of-the-art grease cartridges.

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  • LiquiGlide, a completely food-safe, gel-like substance is applied to the inside of jars intended to hold thick, viscous liquids like honey and mayonnaise.

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  • The extent of the delay indicated the viscosity of the fluid, and toe-pad mucus was found to be little more than one-and-a-half times as viscous as water.

    ECONOMIST: How tree frogs keep their grip

  • Indeed, the Anglo-Dutch multinational announced today that it had inked an agreement to acquire Koch Materials China , which is involved in the manufacture and marketing of bitumen--that black viscous residue taken from the distillation of crude petroleum--in the country.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Dr Borra worked out just how viscous the liquid would need to be, and found that it had to be the consistency of thick honey.

    ECONOMIST: Mirror, mirror

  • There are some signs that stocks of more viscous oil are building, since it is harder (and less profitable) to refine.

    ECONOMIST: Oil prices

  • Tossed with crisp escarole and treviso and set off by the warm, sweet vinaigrette (which should be viscous but not heavy), the fruits complete a dish that illustrates Mr. Kahan's gift for making even the simplest of ingredients feel surprising.

    WSJ: Paul Kahan's Apple Salad With Chicories, Pecans & Gorgonzola | Slow Food Fast

  • Extracting the bitumen from the clay and sand and upgrading it into crude oil--by breaking its big hydrocarbon molecules into smaller, less viscous ones--is an expensive, energy-intensive process that consumes 650 cubic feet of natural gas for every barrel.

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  • The origin of this effect may lie at the boundary between the mantle, made up of viscous rock that extends 2, 900 km (1, 800 miles) below the crust, and the outer core, which is thought to be liquid iron with the consistency of water.

    BBC: Earth's wobbles reveal deep secrets

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