But where Ms. Abbott's works reveal a well-honed eye for composition, structure, form and surface texture, Ms. Egbert's, especially her recent, often large oil paintings, feel empty and unresolved.
So, like the rest of us, she went to Crate & Barrel and Kmart to stock up on the basics -- fast -- using her well-honed eye to winnow out the best.
"I was like, 'No, and if anyone ever asks you that you run to your father and you tell him.' " Her sittings last only about an hour, and the speed with which she gets her shot is a tribute to her well-honed art director's eye.
His eye and intellect honed British theatre immeasurably.
A slightly honed edge may lead to improved performance due to the reduction of deposition stresses at the tool edge.
After lighting candles and praying with nameless neighbors and hugging crying strangers, the idea of returning to routines, especially the well-honed urban craft of avoiding eye contact with people on the street and subway, seemed to leave people feeling more hollow than before.
The New Yorker, June 19, 2000 P. 181 Briefly Noted book review of "The Fundamentals of Play" (Random House; $24.95) by Caitlin Macy...Macy's eye for the sparks that fly when her honed and not so honed sensibilities rub together is nearly unerring, and it's hard to imagine anyone more capable of writing, eventually, the quintessential chronicle that this novel is straining to become.
These are beliefs honed not in fantasy but in honed skills.
But surely it is the painter's eye, the writerly curiosity and the well-honed political instincts of Ma that make the book the triumph it is.
In this sketch we see both the artist's keen eye for dramatic composition and his well-honed skills as a draughtsman.
Captain Ambrose had the face of an El Greco martyr, with deep brown, suffering eyes and a nose like a finely honed stone ax head.
