kernel

There is no doubt a kernel of truth in much of what people are saying.

The bright light from the kitchen and a collection of backlit jars filled with corn kernels — evoking feelings of a science laboratory — also draw your eye.

Let's start from the kernel of the idea that led to Blake playing this role.

They fill those crinkly carnival bags with buttery kernels and pour lemonade into small Dixie cups.

From this kernel, Saariaho and her librettist, Finnish novelist Sofi Oksanen, developed the scenario, which has 13 singing or speaking roles: seven at the school and six at the wedding banquet.