Connotation and Denotation

NOSTALGIA FOR KERALA (AND ITS FOOD) by Peter Cherches

1. There are beautiful beaches and backwaters, places of great historical interest, reflecting the region's varied colonial past, and an overall sense of contentment and well-being among the people.


2. The dancers have perfect control of all face and body muscles, and the makeup is striking and elaborate.


3. That night I took a sunset cruise on the Arabian Sea, followed by dinner at my hotel, the Sealord. As Cochin is a coastal city, seafood is bountiful, and the Sealord does it up well.


4. The sauce for the kingfish curry had a nice, tangy bite, and the beef fry had an aromatic dry masala that reminded me a bit of an Indonesian rendang.


5. I took the LIRR out on a beautiful late summer day for lunch, and the walk was rather pleasant.


TURN OUT THE LITE by Anderson Digby

1. The mildest thing one would want to say about this horrid pink innovation, which sweated under the grill and fell to bits under the knife, was that it was less than a sausage.


2. Which is precisely what has been happening to food and much else on a grand or rather a pathetic scale.


3. Lite is insipid, weak, denatured, flat, diluted, and easy: food for the coward and children.


4. So booming Lite business gives us a picture of the American and British consumer of food. He is ignorant, timid, squeamish, and childish.


5. Our morality is Lite, childish and diluted. Our religion is insipid and undemanding. The schools make things easy for their pupils. The entertainment industry is fluffy and filmsy.