And if I made another tiny crack, if I dented the plaster deeper, then I felt that I had accomplished something.
How many times had I dented confidence, did I tear down instead of build up?
This isn't because I think it dents my case but because I don't think it gets us very far.
Blue Is the Warmest Color: Can it dent the NC-17 stigma?
I hit it into the wall, so many times, so hard, that I had dented the plaster, there was a kind of [she raises her hand and pushes it forward against the air slightly to indicate] crater, in the plaster.
"I buy dented tinned food because they're cheap.
And I can honestly say that when I notice the dent, I'm not depressed, but elated.
("I didn't even dent it," he recalled sheepishly).
I doubt this will dent the implacable momentum of the cultural supertanker behind yes (see this list from the movement's Diego Rivera, National Collective).
It was only 18 minutes long and most of the audience asked for their money back but he didn't let this setback dent him: "I wrote to all the comedy clubs in Britain saying, 'Hello my name is Omid, I stormed the Edinburgh Festival.
"If it was a perfect car when I got that dent, I would have had another heart attack".
