pungent

A pungent smell of detergent and rotten food hits me as we walk through this enormous high-security prison.

Greek salad just wouldn’t be the same without its fresh tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers complemented by a pungent, olive-forward EVOO.

Still, there are moments when things feel frustratingly streamlined, suggesting that a story more warped and pungent had been sacrificed at the altar of ready-to-serve entertainment about the Secret Lives of Mothers.

“For some, a war becomes home,” he says at one point, his line readings so pungent you’ll barely miss the excitement of a Cyclops or a Calypso.

Soon, mounds of unsightly sargassum – carried by currents from the Sargasso Sea and linked to climate change – were carpeting the region’s prized coastlines, repelling holidaymakers with the pungent stench emitted as it rots.