Sentence examples for smoothing away from inspiring English sources

At the same time, Beard warns against the danger of smoothing away the strangeness and foreignness of Roman life.

Come to the film with an open mind, and be amazed by all the early-cinema roughness that Hitchcock would spend his career successfully smoothing away.

Mr. Muhs sped on, adding layer after layer of detail, as Mr. Perez lay on his stomach, delicately smoothing away the footprints in the trench.

He does what's required, smoothing away everything that once made Madonna exciting, putting her in the same middlebrow sphere as Meg Ryan, if that's what she wants.

While smoothing away wrinkles, Botox has also helped sand down some of its users' character traits, or at least the ones that show up in the face.

But we could soon see an alternative approach to smoothing away those crow's feet, thanks to a pair of Cambridge University physicists who have found a formula that predicts how big wrinkles will be.

But the edges have been smoothed away.

All smoothed away by tongues made out of sandpaper.

Not even the mother's hand could smooth away the son's distress.

This is a problem that cannot simply be smoothed away by dialogue.

Entire mouths, hands, chins are smoothed away – or are left unpainted.