manna

The 1980s reforms were like manna from heaven for him.

A few weeks later, a reservation at Camélia in the Arts District presented itself like manna from heaven.

When I got home, I flung myself onto the couch, basking in the AC’s icy coolness as if it were manna from heaven.

Turns out, an intermittent schedule of reinforcement — occasional pellets of counterfeit love dispensed like unpredictable manna — proves most effective to keep us pressing.

"As soon as you are able to obfuscate the true nature of a URL, that is manna for scammers," he says.