Sentence examples for scouring away from inspiring English sources

Chekhov was also of the opinion that "only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things," and the Regents, by scouring away every expression of insensitivity except literary insensitivity, have indeed demonstrated their Chekhovian emancipation.

This meant shutting down the machinery that weaves the wires into cables, scouring away all the accumulated grease, and forming the cable very slowly, to keep it from getting too hot.

The British Museum misguidedly restored Elgin's marbles in the 1930s, scouring away the natural weathered patina and fragments of original paint to reach a white finish, a finish that is unnatural to the stone itself.

Indeed, many 19th-century female reformers defined themselves that way — as reluctant trespassers in the public sphere who had left the domestic circle only to fulfill their duty as the morally superior sex, housekeepers scouring away a nation's vice.

He made his name in 2005 with an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, scouring away the refinement of Jane Austen's novel and filling the screen with squawking chickens, muddy petticoats and wind-reddened cheeks.

Only now, as the United States prepares to face Brazil in the final on Sunday, does Altidore seem to be scouring away the rust of a club season spent largely on the bench.

But nothing could scour away a burning disquiet.

You can't scour away Lorenz Hart's lyrics.

The beaches could also be scoured away by erosion.

It scoured away the wet, soupy soil, depositing it no one is quite sure where.

Ahead we can see a mountain whose top has been scoured away by gold miners.