Sentence examples for wood straight from inspiring English sources

Pastoral, a print from 1930 (the year after Sutherland and his wife, Kathleen Barry, lost their only child at the age of three months), depicts a wood straight out of the brothers Grimm, the trees' branches straining like tentacles.

Yet having conducted a rigorously scientific test, by listening again to 'Norwegian Wood' straight after nibbling at Philip Norman's mouldy Cox's Orange Pippin of circumstantial enlightenment, it is a great relief to discover that the song's faux-Nordic pseudo-folk allure remains defiantly uncompromised.

Do not try to chop the wood straight.

In some New Age traditions, it's suggested that you fill your location with all manner of esoteric crystals and golden cushions, while other traditions may suggest you imagine a mossy wood straight out of Tolkien.

Nicklaus spotted a small gap in the branches, and against all odds, clattered a three-wood straight through it.

Imagine Sorenstam or Webb beating Woods straight up on the same course.

She notices that the boy disappears off into the woods straight after breakfast, so one day she slips out to follow him.

It's impossible not to feel it, as you start to rise through the scene of snow-laden woods straight out of Narnia and fall into a kind of pensive hibernation and meditation on the mile-long ride.

Sand with the grain (following the lines of the wood grain straight back and forth) to avoid leaving behind swirly marks.

No, Anything but That," April 6) or be deemed a true Grand Slam ("How Bobby Jones Planned the First Grand Slam," April 8) or to suggest that "Jones's Grand Slam is still No. 1 and Woods's Straight Slam deserves to be No. 2" ("With Stakes Raised, Woods Draws a Straight," April 9) is patently ludicrous and dangerously myopic.

A thriller, "The Woods," went straight to DVD. "Romance" faced the same fate.