astringently

But, of course, it would not happen too often, she thought astringently.

The Countess added astringently, "Are you done with that now?"

The two cousins, so lately reunited in great joy, stared at each other astringently.

It was astringently cool, kind to throat and stomach, bearing the scent of flowers.

My throat had constricted and the cool liquid was astringently soothing.

In Palladio's hands, these elements appear less willful and more astringently applied.

He smiled astringently, raised sleepy, heavy-lidded eyes towards her.

'And to take them off your host?' said Milsom astringently.

As always, the fortune-teller's dwelling was astringently neat-and almost bare of furnishings.

"Interplay," next on the program, offered an astringently jazzy celebration of somewhat older youth and urban cool.

The large supporting cast is so-so, and the tone is broadly comic rather than astringently so.

"Don't you believe it," he said astringently.

The living room, like the kitchen, was astringently neat, but the furniture was stodgy and a little seedy-looking.

Yet the shack was astringently neat.

Mailer's power and allure rest in his being, at once, self-surrendering and astringently assertive.

"My dear, I was in a dark grotto, like Capri, and everything smelled so astringently sea clean."

Astringently if politely, Louisa had been held at bay; till now, when at the lines:

The kitchen was astringently neat.

Originally organized by Harvard University, it is brainy, astringently funny and without an ounce of formal fat.

'I'm not your father,' I said astringently.

The whole world of bachelorhood, both male and female, is astringently pictured - the trendy restaurants as well as the strip bars.

His home was astringently neat and clean, but furnished only with a much-battered low table and a couple of wickerwork chairs.

The vodka sits there, astringently, making no effort to have a meaningful conversation with the sweet, raisiny Madeira.

Washington is not specifying the charges on which it would like Mr. Milosevic arrested, but just wants him in prison, a senior official noted astringently.

What is needed is an astringently intellectual, morally grounded repudiation of bigotry whenever it occurs and from whatever source.