exotically

There are meat and potato shows with broad appeal, and exotically spiced series not to everyone’s taste; costly productions without flavor, and ones, through attention to detail, that turn common ingredients into something exquisite.

The mayoralty campaign that culminates Tuesday has featured, in Brandon Johnson, a comprehensively, almost exotically, inapt candidate.

To white travelers dining at a Middle Eastern restaurant near LAX, his solo performances might have seemed little more than mood enhancers produced by an exotically costumed actor playing the part of “Middle Eastern musician.”

Or perhaps—more exotically—the ripples came from cosmic strings, hypothetical defects in the vacuum left over from the Big Bang.

In SoHo you could get a turnip soup with an asymmetrical bread chunk at an exotically rustic cafeteria named Food.