In 1991, when Slovenia became independent, the chiseled out name of Yugoslavia was filled in with plaster and the name Slovenia painted over it.
But a trek through the villages around Jenin finds militiamen hiding out in caves chiseled into the mountains, and committed to resuming guerrilla war in the occupied territories and suicide attacks inside Israel.
His words are chiseled on important buildings.
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Cesare deve morire (Caesar Must Die), winner of Berlin's Golden Bear award, presented itself as a semidocumentary about prisoners rehearsing Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, but an air of contrivance haunted its beautifully chiseled images.
Stone has been chiseled, metal hammered or cast, wood carved, and clay molded.
Anna Akhmatova's brief, finely chiseled lyrics brought her fame at the outset of her career, but later in life she produced such longer works as Requiem, written from 1935 to 1940 but published in Russia only in 1989, her memorial to the victims of Joseph Stalin's purges (particularly her son, who was imprisoned in 1937).
American actor whose rakish charm and chiseled good looks augmented an ability to bring sincerity and gravitas to characters ranging from addled drug dealers to comic book villains.
The structure's abundant ornamentation makes it appear to have been chiseled out of a single chunk of stone.
The varied geologic structure has been heavily chiseled by perennial streams, fed in spring by melting snow and ice.
Yi Il-Lo, in his P'ahan chip (1260; "Jottings to Break Up Idleness"), defends the value of literature and praises the beautifully chiseled sentence.
In former times people had chiseled a path out of the rocks and distributed on the face of the cliff over 700 ladders for the descent.
