Sentence examples for sharp mirror from inspiring English sources
Rather than reflecting and refracting each other (think how the twin stories of Ali Smith's How to Be Both twine around each other, barely touching but flaming with life and insight every time they do; or the sharp mirror fragments of Nabokov's Pale Fire, where the fictions of the poem and the commentary slice into each other), the two stories simply duplicate.
The tale hangs over us a moment until the boatman cranks up the skiff's outboard and we turn up the Dorado, its waters smooth as black marble here toward evening, polished to a fine sheen and offering up a disorienting, surreally sharp mirror image of the jungle trees.
The more glossy a selected painting surface is, the more it will directly and precisely represent the particles of light (think of a sharp mirror or glass).
The sharp mirror peak reflects all wavelengths in the same direction and is purely a function of the incident angle.
Our media tend to act as a mirror to our society, and the internet is the biggest, brightest, sharpest mirror yet invented; a mirror that renders every grey hair and wrinkle in painful detail.
The result is a striking portrait of a single divided self: Reggie, the calculatingly cool charmer, whose sharp suits mirror his businessman's mind; Ron, the paranoid schizophrenic, whose lust for random violence is matched only by his passion for handsome young men ("I'm homosexual, but I'm not a poof") and his dear old mum's tea and cake.
His choices are a sharp-edged mirror of himself.
Stacks of sulking synth lines and needle-sharp strings mirror the stark outlines of Mazes, but there's a peace here that he's not really suggested elsewhere, an implication that in his ravenous searching he's found the prize and can rest, at least for the moment.
"Ballo Per Sei," though conventional, shows a shift for Mr. Liang, whose ballets tend to mirror sharp gestures with broadly drawn emotional angularity.
ML canal orifices were detected in 20 of the teeth with a sharp explorer and mirror.
Slice into the rootstock with a sharp blade, then mirror this slice in the scion.
