Weakened paper, strong attachment — the result was a jagged tear down the middle of the map.
A straight cut was easier to stitch than a jagged tear, and doctors argued that a woman would feel less postpartum pain and have fewer future problems with pelvic-floor complications (like urinary incontinence).
Early versions of the creature had a basic shape of a mass of tentacles, with a jagged tear in one large appendage forming a rudimentary mouth.
Sometimes the doctor or midwife will perform an episiotomy (make a small cut in the perineal tissue) to prevent jagged tearing, which is harder to stitch up.
The deconstructed wall then informs the piece by providing a contrast with the artworks, as they're left dotted with holes, jagged tears or shapes corresponding with the art, explicitly showing where the material came from.
Put on your skirt and make a couple of jagged tears.
Using pruning shears or hand-plucking methods are not recommended, as they may cause crushed or jagged tears that the leaf cannot properly heal from.[3] If you do try to pluck the leaf, make sure the entire leaf snaps off the stem, and use a gentle tug, not excessive force.[4].
But Jane Vandenburgh obviously thinks the answer is yes, and in her new memoir, "A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century," she goes on a jagged little tear on the topic.
Democritus' theory of taste, for example, shows how different taste sensations are regularly produced by contact with different shapes of atoms: some atoms are jagged and tear the tongue, creating bitter sensations, or are smooth and thus roll easily over the tongue, causing sensations of sweetness.
Standing against a wall at that truck stop, she slumped to the ground as she was given the news by cellphone, jagged stones tearing skin from her back.
C. P. E. Bach was, essentially, an expressionist, a master of subjective emotional representation in music, and Sunday's symphony, as conducted by Zacharias, offered a series of musical jolts to the sensation — piercing dynamic contrasts, with suave and sighing phrases followed by loud musical spikes; sudden silences; and jagged dissonances tearing through the fabric of melodies.
