Sentence examples for take a chisel to from inspiring English sources
/ Take a chisel to write".
The law can come down on you like a hammer, and the language of the law — the language of the law as required by the law — can then take a chisel to what's left of you, sending piercing needles of who you are and what you've done into your eyes.
By Nancy Franklin June 30, 2009 The law can come down on you like a hammer, and the language of the law — the language of the law as required by the law — can then take a chisel to what's left of you, sending piercing needles of who you are and what you've done into your eyes.
As he has shown in features like "My Sex Life or How I Got Into an Argument," still his crowning work, and the boldly experimental "Esther Kahn," Mr. Desplechin has no interest in polishing narrative like a gemstone; he would rather take a chisel to it.
It's as if someone brought home an Easter Island statue, then took a chisel to the chin.
He took a chisel to stone with kindness and enquiry, as if finding out what else the stone would like to be".
When a steroid-injecting slugger punches a home run to the opposite field, is it any different than a pitcher taking a chisel to the mound and defacing the baseball before every pitch?
PICK OF THE WEEK Not, in honesty, the greatest single to be run up the LCD Soundsystem flagpole – and I write this before the chorus has begun its inevitable tread round those Ibiza Uncovered-style shows that zoom in on women yakking up in their handbags on a street in Magaluf, taking a chisel to your soul in the process.
His job was taking a chisel to pigs on an assembly line, and one day — a day that led him to enroll in community college, and then the University of Iowa, where he began performing comedy at the student union — he sliced off a pig's scalp and put it on top of his helmet.
Taking a chisel to stone can create an artifact that can last millennia, and inspires such awe we build magnificent palaces to put them on display.
It is very moving when the man who has created the violin takes it down from its resting place, picks up the bow, and lovingly coaxes from it the harmonies he intended it to produce when he first took a chisel to the maple.
