Narrative threads seem to be snipped off at obscure junctions; nothing is baldly stated.
Shutterfly's paper sizes also have limits, so photos with an unorthodox crop may come with a white border to be snipped off at home.
At the corners, two courses of brick protrude at a 45-degree angle as if they had been snipped off with pinking shears.
It was a shock to the worshippers of Rita Hayworth when her rolling red tresses were snipped off, for "The Lady from Shanghai" (1947), and replaced by a curt blond crop.
More pitiable, his whiskers had been snipped off, an indignity suffered when he'd petitioned for refuge in a shanty near our home, where children made sport by taunting strays.
The Victorians genuinely believed that a passion could be snipped off at its roots and then, so to speak, brought indoors and placed in a glass of water, like a cut flower.
After a bit of hesitation, the other button would be snipped off — what can you do? — the orphan would be thrown into the pile, and a half-dozen new buttons wrapped in muddy, tea-colored waxed paper would be purchased at the variety store.
It's like a great big bucket of things that have been snipped off and fiddled with.
This is the result of "Her Majesty" being snipped off the reel during a rough mix of the medley on 30 July.
The nictitating membranes were snipped off at the base, and the Harderian glands, located between the medial rectus muscle and the anterior wall of orbit, were separated from the incision formed by excision of the nictitating membrane, were removed in their entirety, together with the complete capsule.
