Sentence examples for takes a knife from inspiring English sources

Finally, in a horrifying climax, he takes a knife to his own portrait.

But this is the one that takes a knife and stabs you through the heart, by its joining of such ravishment with such pessimism.

She denies being mentally ill, but it's hard to know how else to interpret the behaviour of someone who locks herself in her room, plunges her hand into a pan of boiling water and takes a knife to her only child.

Legend has it that at least four members of the audience fainted during a screening of Von Trier's Antichrist at the Cannes film festival in 2009, perhaps something to do with a scene in which Charlotte Gainsbourg takes a knife to her own genitalia after doing unspeakable things to Willem Dafoe.

One was in The Famous Victories of Henry V, created for the RSC's First Encounters programme, which cleverly takes a knife to both text and plot in a significantly pared-down version of both parts of Henry IV, plus Henry V.

To President Bush, Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. is Blade, the guy who takes a knife to spending proposals in a quest to slow the inexorable growth of government, as Republicans see it -- or to cut into vital programs, in the Democratic view.

And in the words of Bart Simpson, it takes a knife-wielding maniac to show us the way: in this case it's the entrance of the pirate Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush, who's nearly as game -- and gamy -- as Mr. Depp).

"Don't take a knife to a gunfight".

Predictably, someone had taken a knife to it.

"He took a knife and scraped it off".

Taylor took a knife and whittled off a flake no larger than a clove.