mouthful

Every mouthful should be complex and delicious, whether it’s mostly chicken or mostly filling.

Instead, Leigh goes back to one of his favorite filmmaking signatures, a trick that hits like a cartoon piano and leaves the audience with a mouthful of black and white keys for teeth.

The creature lifts its head, nearly dainty in scale, and contentedly gnaws a mouthful of ferns.

Long encumbered by a mouthful of metal, Zachary was told by his parents Friday that he could leave his fifth-grade class early because he had an orthodontist appointment to get his braces removed.

“It’s an absolute mouthful to sing, with a lot of wordage,” he says.