Word: sourish
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LEAST-NEEDED NEW PRODUCT Take mineral water from Mendocino, Calif., turn it over to chef John Ash, and be prepared for Truffle Water, a sourish-smelling carbonated drink that suggests spoiled milk, sulfur and stale beer. The question is not how he thought...
...horrors of death, he begs Isabella to yield herself to Angelo. Thus he, too, is not what he seems, for any man of honor would prefer death to his sister's disgrace. Duke Vincentio finally returns to square these various accounts, "measure for measure," and give this sourish play an ambiguously happy ending. Yet, in his actions, the duke conclusively proves "what these our seemers be," for he has not really been interested in the goodly governance of the state but in his tricksterish manipulation of his subjects, both high and low, according to his own regal whims...
...declaring himself a candidate for the G.O.P. presidential nomination. Rockefeller set out last autumn to try to stir up support west of the Hudson River, encountered neither public nor Republican enthusiasm, and found that the party's leaders thought Nixon would be the better candidate by far. With a sourish complaint that the Republicans who would control the convention were "opposed to any contest for the nomination," Rocky declared himself out of the running. Then and later he refused to endorse Nixon for President...
Henry Adams: The Middle Years, by Ernest Samuels. When Adams still had his Eve (Marian "Clover" Hooper), and the world was as sweet as this sourish Boston Brahmin ever found...