As far as insults go, dreck, with its harsh K and garbage-at-the-bottom-of-the-rubbish-pile implication, is a particularly cutting one, and I'm sure many indie authors took offense.
Boredom is deciding to create a tea strainer from a soda can, going down to the galley, cutting a can in half, poking holes in the bottom with a knife, and then cutting one's finger, pretty badly, on the aluminum.
Stumbo wrote a series of cutting one-liners on the back of a paper fan and, noticing a lens had fallen out of his reading glasses, ditched his notes and ripped extemporaneously into the Republican effort to take back the statehouse.
In fact, times like these call for a rational investment approach that includes a disciplined plan for cutting one's losses.
The Surface Pro scored a 1 out of 10 for repairability, since just opening the tablet offers a high probability of completely cutting one of the four cables that surrounds the display, there's adhesive on the battery and display keeping it stuck in, and the display assembly is incredibly hard to replace.
They're used to cutting three songs per day, I'm used to cutting one song a day.
In fact, Barr battled to hold the man back; at one point he tried to dissuade McMullan from holding up a cutting of one his proudest stories – a topless shot of Carla Bruni.
a One cutting and one drawing, b two cuttings and one drawing, c three cuttings and one drawing.
Forty-eight hours after blood feeding, oviposition was induced by cutting one wing (with a 21-gauge needle) of ethyl acetate-anesthetized mosquitoes.
