curdling

Biden’s deterioration has a sense of curdling to it—not just of demise but also of spoil.

The tagline — “What a guy! What a lug! What a hero! What a bum!” — illustrates the tentative truce between fans and umpires that is always, inevitably, one call from curdling.

They saw how overnight statehood ruined a stateless people, their leaders and many of their followers’ mission curdling Israel’s Jewish nationalism into a selfishness so systemic that Amnesty International has outed it as apartheid, the U.N.

That queasy, curdling feeling has finally been conquered.

Then warm liquid from a broth or sauce is added slowly to the mixture to temper the eggs and prevent them from curdling.