Forever put-upon, a defiant stab of rouge on each cheek, Tuckett's Simone is torn between a stern protectiveness of her nubile daughter and the knowledge that, country matters being what they are, nature will take its course.
Ayad allegedly set upon Jackson, stabbing him in the eye, head and torso.
As his binges became more serious, one psychiatrist assessed that because of his "paranoid and belligerent" behaviour during the binges, there was a "real risk" he could be seriously injured, "set upon or stabbed" by others.
After traveling to New York to live with his 87-year-old grandmother (apparently rather generously forgiving of his crime), and, no longer taking his meds, less than a week would pass before Tony violently set upon and stabbed her eight times with a kitchen knife.
As a schoolgirl in the first happily depressive throes of discovering Dostoyevsky, I stumbled upon George Hamilton's stab at the classics, "Crime and Punishment, U.S.A.," the one that turns Raskolnikov into "Robert Cole" and trades 19th-century Russia for Santa Monica.
If you are going to stab, stab openly.
Even to stab them, frankly.
To stab, stab, stab is intentional, will.
Anyone who has entertained the swaggering thought that he's virtually a chef already will feel a stab of doubt upon seeing that it treats as basic things that he has probably never done: boned a chicken, cut vegetables into bâtonnets and gaufrettes, produced a mousseline or a terrine or a roulade.
"Keep your eye upon it, throttle it, kill it, stab it, do everything you can to wound it — to impede its progress".
