0 past simple and past participle of spice
The exposition generally proceeds at the right pace, and is occasionally spiced with amusing or personal examples.
Timmins has provided some very nourishing, piquantly spiced and cleverly garnished traditional fare, but something nearer to nouvelle cuisine might have been even better.
For the book really is a kind of narrative: an intriguing tale of human ingenuity spiced by moments of mystery.
Instead of all this we are given a rather ascetic two-voice writing; modality instead of tonal cohesion, spiced by emancipated dissonance.
Blechynden's parental concern was expressed sometimes as conventional hopes for the future, spiced with conventional pleas to the deity, and sometimes as understated feeling; but also at times directly.
But essentially it has been a repetitive rehearsal of elementary differences of opinion spiced with a few detailed explanations of specific matters.
His legal training and experience led to clarity in his rulings, and his wit and humour often spiced our proceedings and speedily reduced tension.
Those are the qualities required, possibly spiced with a little intelligence and receptivity of mind.
