We no longer cement ourselves in slabs of preformed religious identity.
The producers famously violated a number of road laws and paid some of the crew in slabs of beer.
They don't present the information in slabs but release it drop by drop, and expect us to work out the truth for ourselves.
The cold air sweetened, banded pebbles and crumbs of soil cast sudden pencil-long shadows, and the rearing lodgepole pines below them massed in slabs of somber malachite.
Last week, Chinese and American paleontologists announced the discovery in China of a 130-million-year old fossil dinosaur in slabs of fine-grained rock.
Often using a palette knife to lay in slabs and patches of color, Britten was remarkably subtle in his evocation of atmosphere.
Using a conventional method – preparing the concrete offsite and then transporting it in slabs – would have taken three weeks, said Crawford, while their method took just eight hours.
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The speech was, as my friend Jack Viertel, a theater producer, put it, "stoic, stern, crafted in slabs of granite, a slimmed-down sinewy thing entirely evolved away from the kind of Pre-Raphaelite style of his earlier oration".
Or not – because it turns out the Italians don't use good old streaky for carbonara, they prefer pancetta, which is dry cured, generally unsmoked, and usually comes in slabs rather than mimsy little slices.
