Sentence examples for ruthlessly prune from inspiring English sources

The shelf not only serves to store books -- which they ruthlessly prune, giving away novels after they read them -- it functions visually as a molding, their architect said.

They can articulate how they will derive value from each patent licensing revenues, cross-licensing "bargaining chips," exclusive exploitation in the marketplace and they ruthlessly prune patents that cannot generate an attractive overall return.

Timeless Ealing black comedy, with Price ruthlessly pruning his family tree and Guinness's celebrated eight-role turn providing the branches.

After ruthlessly pruning my recommendations longlist to only the cannot-leave-out books, I did a quick count and found that my must-read list consisted of 40 titles.

Modern monarchy has not quite dissolved this ancient connection between worship and immolation: in order for the "magic" to work, heirs and heiresses must either be ruthlessly pruned or else compelled to live inhumanly cloistered lives.

Ruthlessly edited, pruned to their essence, the items were often elegant and poignant and sometimes focused on the bizarre.

Roberts shares her tendency towards literary extravagance with her protagonist, Charlotte Brontë, whose tutor exhorts her to 'control my over-exuberant style, to prune ruthlessly, to keep my imagination checked within bounds'.

WPT also edited ruthlessly.