gumminess

The gumminess problem can be overcome with special oil based cutting fluids.

He loved the slick gumminess of it, its spicy fullness.

Slightly hardening the steel may decrease its gumminess and make it easier to cut.

She blinked gumminess from her eyes and tried to look down the length of her prone body.

When she talks, there's a gumminess that suggests her teeth are false and ill-anchored.

Gumminess: Energy required to disintegrate a semi-solid food to a state ready for swallowing.

But the lower part of his body was held firm by the viscous gumminess of the web-spider's cord.

A slight gumminess in the cakes reminded me of the sap of trees we had been shown in the jungle.

(The quotation marks are the menu's; it's not clear what they signify, other than gumminess.)

It says a lot about Ms. Higgins and Mr. ten Haaf's commitment to their roles that they rise above such Hallmark card gumminess.

Only a pair of tunes written with Guy Clark, "Stuff That Works" and "Rose of Memphis," succumb to a wordy gumminess.

Among pasta and rice dishes, I found little pleasure and an overly salty gumminess in the tiella Pugliese, a classic casserole with rice, potatoes and mussels.

The Thai black rice, also known as purple sticky rice, had a pleasing ebony gumminess and shared plate space with a delicious saute of eggplant, bok choy and roasted yellow peppers.

Fenella and Caspar were both held fast by the wet gumminess of the Melanisms and Nuadu and the Robemaker's slaves were chained and manacled inside the treadmills.

The serrano ham, strangely undersalted, was reduced to a footnote to its date filling, but the dates, smoothed to a kind of paste, were extraordinary, all bright fruit flavor, with no gumminess or murky sweetness.

Ignoring the gumminess in her eyes, she turned her head from one side to the other, trying to determine if the sound had come front the quarters or from somewhere in Elahwa, but all she could hear was.

We'd tested, and found that ordinary gray duct tape stood up to cold and vacuum for something between six and eight hours, after which it could turn brittle and lose its gumminess, or adhesive qualities, whatever you want to call it.

He stretched, gazed about him, met the stony, disapproving faces of the afterguard and realised that the gumminess of his feet was caused by tar, pitch and resin on his shoes: a trail of dirty footsteps led across the clean deck from the place where he had slept to the rail where he now stood.