pasty
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As with Maggie O’Farrell’s original novel, “Hamnet” soft-pedals the reveal that Mescal’s pasty, ordinary-seeming father of three is the greatest wordsmith in English literature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
BBC Sport looks back at the "Piegate" controversy from February 2017, when Sutton United reserve goalkeeper Wayne Shaw ate a pasty on camera during a game, prompting an investigation into a breach of betting rules.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025
And, of course, the town still cherishes and serves up the pasty.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
Add coffee and and a dash of aminos or soy sauce and cook until pasty and the mushrooms have softened.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023
His face looks gray and pasty and eager, his thin hair combed pathetically over the growing bald spot.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
These are pasties, crescent-shaped hand pies that originated as a lunch food for miners in Cornwall, England, and have become a mainstay in Grass Valley, 60 miles northeast of Sacramento.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
She’s interested in adding regular savories such as pasties and sausage rolls, and maybe bringing new treats such as trifles or Eton Messes to her roster.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
His father Thomas Stanley Thomas, known as Stan, launched Thomas Pies in the 1950s, selling sausage rolls, pies and pasties around the south Wales valleys.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2023
Cloake enjoys hers alongside summer berries and even adds a spoonful to her Cornish pasties, for "a touch of luxury."
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2022
A giant boar’s head came first in order, then pasties and whole suckling pigs, pigeons and geese roasted with feathers on.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
Beyond Meat starts off a bit mushier and pastier, but once it starts cooking, it breaks up and browns just fine.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020
In the comics, he has at times been reconfigured as a heroic vigilante, not unlike Batman with distinctly pastier colouring, a thirst for bad-guy blood, and actual chiropteran superpowers.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2018
Viewers also have watched the various stages of transformation from human victim to full-fledged bloodsucker, with characters getting pastier, hungrier and scarier by the moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2014
Every day the flabby cheeks grew pastier and the pouches under the eyebrows heavier.
From The Last Shot by Frederick Palmer
Years ago, in my earliest and pastiest days as a would-be writer, I once read a new story aloud to S. and Boo Boo.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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