Starchiness

Something will go out of the world when that kind of starchiness is lost. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The impression was so strong that the moment I was living seemed to be one with the past and (more bewildered still than I was on the day when I wondered whether I was going to be welcomed by the Princesse de Guermantes or whether everything was going to melt away), I believed that the servant had just opened the window upon the shore and that everything invited me to go downstairs and walk along the sea-wall at high tide; the napkin upon which I was wiping my mouth had exactly the same kind of starchiness as that with which I had attempted with so much difficulty to dry myself before the window the first day of my arrival at Balbec and within the folds of which, now, in that library of the Guermantes mansion, a green-blue ocean spread its plumage like the tail of a peacock. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I find both of these, however, lack the satisfying crunch that makes such a pleasing contrast to the soft, savoury starchiness within – or maybe I'm just nostalgic for the chippie. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"Often frozen peas are better than fresh peas, because they are picked before they have time to go over to starchiness." ❋ Unknown (2011)

I didn't much like Gordon's speech at the end -- oh, the clanging of anvils and the starchiness of the words. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He is growing three varieties that are sweet enough, especially when freshly harvested, but retain a certain appealing starchiness that gives old-time corn its flavor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She intently examined the thinly sliced potatoes, looking for clues about their starchiness. ❋ Rhea Wessel (2010)

Converted rice is parboiled, which removes some of the starchiness thus the lower glycemic index and also helps keep the rice grains separate. ❋ Kalyn Denny (2009)

I would say it starts off like plum wine (perhaps the Tokaj and davana, which is a boozy smelling type of artemisia), continues into magnolified-fruity champaca with the addition of rice and tea like notes (perhaps this is the starchiness of the candied chestnuts) and boils down to vanilla and a woody amber. ❋ Ayala Sender (2009)