Man, I want to be someone's forbidden fruit. " "Well, you are pretty fruity.
May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun.
Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
I'm not a fruity girl. I don't like licorice. I'm chocolate all the way.
Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.
Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.