confection

At 59, the breakout star of Netflix’s Parisian confection is playing a role written for a woman 20 years younger.

Such is the syncretic nature of contemporary conservatism that blatantly contradictory elements can be fused into the monstrous ideological confection we see all around us.

David Rockwell’s scenic design whips up a confection shop of theatrical dreams.

It’s the handiwork of a 1920s developer, Richard Peter Shea, a poor man who made good and who also built Shea’s Castle, a grandiose Irish confection in the Lancaster desert.

You’re the teen prince of the summer’s signature song, the kind that has reigned over iTunes, ring tones and MySpace alike, an innocent but cunning confection that’s seeped into nearly everyone’s consciousness in Doppler form from so many cars blasting it out of souped-up speakers.