delectable

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Over and over again, he seduces us with color, engages us with delectable subject matter, and then stuns us with his overwhelming pictorial intelligence and inventiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

The friends at my kitchen counter landed on some delectable gossip—the kind nobody would dare utter at a public cafe, much less print in a national newspaper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Even if the film is horrendous, its timing couldn’t be better; a real-life soap opera blown up to catastrophic, delectable results.

From Salon • May 3, 2025

“Like Water for Chocolate,” has always been a delectable tale of food, love, and the power they wield when intertwined.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2025

There was to be a grand dinner, and then our music-master, Mr. 13-04, would lead a band and singers in a brief operatic divertissement, delectable to the taste of His Lordship.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson