martini

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A vodka martini is a vulgar, flavorless concoction.

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  • So I sat glumly drinking my freshly made martini, and over the din of voices and ice clinking in glasses and other bar noises, I could make out the faint rumbling sound of the universe laughing over the cosmic joke that it had on me And it was a good one Given how poorly I always did with women, it surprised me how often something like this did happen to me. —  Magazine - Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine - 2007 - Issue 03 - March
  • Rune ordered Bradford another martini, a reporter's drink. —  Hard News
  • He'd had another martini, and then he'd called his girlfriend back home. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 02 - August 1996
  • This was a dirty dirty martini, a filthy martini, platonic proof that one could take two wonderful things—good gin and blue cheese— and make something truly awful. —  In a Strange City
  • The sexy grin fades and I sit back and take a sip of the martini, then carefully wipe my lips with a napkin. —  Glamorama
 

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