I described it as one of “consistent inconsistency” because in almost every red wine commune you could find brilliant wines but you could also find shockers, especially the left-bank Merlot-rich cuvées or the right-bank wines which are of course mostly Merlot. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Certainly right-bank for left-bank, especially in a vintage where some of the left bankers may have more bold fruit than normal. ❋ Unknown (2009)
For now the most supple and enjoyable of the top left-bank 2000s, this Merlot/Cab blend from a third-growth appellation will develop for years, though it's hard not to drink it now. ❋ Jay McInerney (2010)
His semi-literate text messages like trvz gode dns le frigo were not a cryptic invitation to embrace a higher spiritual well-being in a left-bank haunt but a heartfelt desire to reunite action to miss. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I discovered last week that the Contributions hasn't been translated in French yet, and look at how much Heidegger continues to be discussed in France, despite left-bank existentialism having passed into the past as a XXth century curiosity. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2006)
Was there a mechanical failure or was this a situation where the pilots, there were two of them in there, Cory Lidle and an unidentified flight instructor, somehow lost control of that airplane as they tried to make a steep left-bank turn to avoid airspace that is protected by LaGuardia Airport. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The wood, which belonged to M. Renardet, the M.yor of Carvelin, and the largest landowner in the district, consisted of a number of huge old trees, straight as pillars, and extending for about half a league along the left-bank of the stream which served as a boundary for this immense arch of foliage. ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)
With her bicycle, soft voice and delicate manners, she might be thought a typical left-bank bourgeois bohemian - or bobo. ❋ Unknown (2010)
THERE'S NOTHING unusual about a new book by French celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy causing a media stir or provoking anguished debate in left-bank intellectual circles. ❋ Baron Bodissey (2010)
There also are advantages as well as disadvantages to the shifting exchange rate; from Italian fashions to left-bank bistros, ❋ Unknown (2010)
The best way to fulfill the promise of the Istanbul Commitments and to resolve the conflict peacefully is for Moldova to persuade its left-bank population, gradually and carefully, through actions and not empty rhetoric, that it offers the best hope for their children's future. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He is just normal – but normal times a million.7 A really crap fight-style activity will break out, chiefly involving people looking offended or standing near one another gesturing and then, for some reason, embracing.8 Every now and then Xavi's noble, hollow-eyed pouchy little face will appear looking completely out of place in all this sleek hyper-modernity, as if a beret-clad left-bank poet of the 1950s accidentally wandered into Spearmint Rhino after losing his spectacles.9 Remember: it is all incredibly serious. ❋ Unknown (2011)
(many) stumbling blocks to real Transnistrian talks, given how left-bank suspicions of Romania were further inflamed following accusations of Bucharest's involvement in the violence around Moldova's April elections. ❋ Unknown (2009)
