La Cieca thinks the following is among the most obnoxious puffery things ever written about an opera singer, and it’s surely the worst bit in the tongue bath the New York Times Magazine gives Danielle de Niese: 

A waiter brought a dish of crème brûlée, and de Niese dived in with a spoon as if the dessert were of a piece with all the pleasures of life when you’re doing what you were born to do and the future looms without a drop of dread.

Or am I wrong? Are there even more fulsome passages lurking in this Chip Brown profile? Feel free to cut-and-paste into the comments section.