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• When Jim was first making the pizzas they got cardboardy.
• Some crackers show " a predominant character of toasted grain "; others have " a cardboardy taste " mixed with " oxidized oil ."
• On these occasions, he tells us, he always wears a blue suit, a cheap, cardboardy suit with " surging lapels and great flapping flares " that gives him a suitably raffish air.
• Unlike the carefully observed characters in " Cedars, " these people feel like cardboardy mouthpieces for Guterson, each a cipher whose role is simply to telegraph messages to Ben that he should rethink his suicide plans.
• In a 1992 interview, Orkin admitted that Benton's character was " a little cardboardy, " and refuted the rumors that Benton roughly resembles Orkin's own character : " This is, of course, nonsense.
• This is hardly a sufficient explanation for his fearsome madness _ described in painful detail over the course of more than 400 pages _ and it ultimately makes him a thin, cardboardy character : an exaggerated case study in mania and sexual dysfunction.
• Whereas Tolstaya effortlessly infused her portraits of the fools and dreamers in her short stories with sympathy and humor, she struggles in this volume to depict Benedikt as a villain : he's a cardboardy, fairy tale creature, all symbol with no flesh or bones.
• Unfortunately, the novel's villain, Draga _ an Indian camp follower and self-proclaimed sorceress who likes to beat her prisoners _ does not possess the malign power of Blue Duck in " Lonesome Dove, " and this story's two romantic leads, Tasmin and Jim Snow, feel like cardboardy figures compared with " Dove's " two great heroes, Gus McCrae and Capt . Woodrow Call.
• His earliest biographer, Darrell Garwood, noted that Wood " thought it a form of borrowed pretentiousness, a structural absurdity, to put a Gothic-style window in such a flimsy frame house . " At the time, Wood classified it as one of the " cardboardy frame houses on Iowa farms " and considered it " very paintable . " He would not return to Eldon again before his death in 1942, although he did request a photograph of the home to complete his painting.