| 单词 | sharpen |
| 例句 | Sir Grummore, just behind, was puffing and asking everybody whether they had sharpened their spears. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She kicked and flailed while Caul held a sharpened icicle to her throat and shouted, “Stay back or I drive this through her jugular!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “And,” I say, “I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The sherry had sharpened his anxiety rather than deadened it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Hunger sharpened her skills, and Frightful was upon it before it reached the fortress. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z For the first time in years, I used one of the tricks Ben had taught me for calming and sharpening the mind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They roasted hunks of pork on sharpened sticks. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “After you sign,” said Inkpots, sharpening a quill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I felt sorry for those trapped birds, whose skinny legs were plucked to reveal spurs sharpened into lethal spikes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The old man’s voice sharpened, and at once Ekon regretted asking. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Servants wheel in tiered trays bursting with skin-color pastilles and rouge pots, brushes and combs and barrel irons, tonics and creams, bei-powder bundles, waxes and perfumes, measuring rods and metal instruments, and sharpened kohl pencils. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z When we got home, I wrote the signs I wanted in my lined-paper tablet with the Indian head on the front, using the pencil Grandma sharpened for me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The wooden hilt was clean and polished, its silvery metal blade sharpened to a lethal point. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Her voice sharpened and he finally blinked and turned to her. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Pa skinned it for them carefully, and into the large end he thrust a sharpened stick. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, using the hatchet he sharpened a stick and poked a hole in the egg. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He could fetch the whetstone when the blades needed sharpening. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The blurry gray lines sharpened, revealing a shot of Fillmore Street. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z When he approached her, she felt his curiosity ripple through the meridians between them, and then it sharpened, his eyes focusing on her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z When he spoke, I saw that his teeth had all been sharpened to points. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And Ares, well, he sat on his chrome-and-leather throne, glowering at me while he sharpened a knife. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “And because my mind is sharpening day by day, I was going to ask if Epsilon-5 could accompany me to the surface tomorrow. We make a good team. My knowledge, combined with his experience.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I opened the notebook and picked up the freshly sharpened pencil. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Each time I had to get up to sharpen it, I told myself I could just walk out of there. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hearing sharpened and she felt the dreadful noises in her bones: a distant screeching of brakes, the slam of a door, gunfire, the crush of boots, a muffled scream. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When I finished that I found a couple pieces of chalk and sharpened those down so that when I stuck the flat end up between my upper lip and gum they hung down like fangs. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything had been readied—new shoes that did not pinch, spiral notepads that rustled like dollars from the bank, and yellow pencils sharpened to a decimal point, without a tooth mark to be found. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The soldiers were forming a queue about a grindstone sharpening their bayonets. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I cut a smaller twig and sharpened it to a point. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The latrines that ringed the encampment were overflowing and swarming with flies, and she saw faint greenish fuzz on many of the sharpened stakes that protected the perimeters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His failures were sharpened, in an odd way, by Woody’s return. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I took off for the field of sharpened sticks, knowing that would slow the undead woman down. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She wrote with the quiet deliberation of a court scribe, sharpening her pencil often. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When he tried to leave her, she had already sharpened her longest kitchen knife. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re the other two student volunteers who come here on Thursdays to help the librarians process returned materials, reshelve books, and sharpen pencils. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z We had to wait for someone to bring a knife to sharpen it because Miss Engel is not allowed to leave me by myself. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z This sharpened the feelings in the physics community and among the program’s civilian leadership that discussions about the deployment of the bomb and postwar management of its technology should be urgently stepped up. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I snap my pencil point and walk to the front of the room to sharpen it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Watching with sharpened eyes for someone to appear suddenly at the head of the stairs. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z When he closed his hand into a fist it sharpened, as if a knife were stabbing up his arm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Interspersed among their ranks were a dozen battle forklifts, their sharpened tines gleaming in the sunset and flaming bolts nocked in their crossbows. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Then, to keep at a distance dogs or men, he took a sharpened lance, and went to rest under a hollow rock where swine were sleeping out of the w ind and rain. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Tariq was the one who told her, for instance, that militiamen stationed in the mountains sharpened their marksmanship—and settled wagers over said marksmanship—by shooting civilians down below, men, women, children, chosen at random. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z One hunger sharpened another hunger, and one crime blotted out the one before it, and the little crimes committed against those starving men flared into one gigantic maniac crime. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Jon slipped sideways between two sharpened stakes while Ghost slid beneath them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “And you seem to forget our purpose,” the dark man said, his cool voice sharpening. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z With strong strokes he pulls the blade against the stone, sharpening it. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I immediately embarked on a crash program to sharpen my tennis skills and get in shape, physically and mentally. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I would ride into battle, slash — cut — left — right — sharpen my sword on the Saracen’s throat — crush the bones of the heathen horde — all for the glory of Our Lord! Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “It literally means,” María says, answering for her dad, “‘Stone without water doesn’t sharpen in the forge.’” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The panthers, leopards and things of that sort, sat and then stood up against the trees to sharpen their front claws. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Ma’s big butcher knife was already sharpened, and Uncle Henry had brought Aunt Polly’s butcher knife. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as the cold water hit his stomach he felt the hunger sharpen, as it had before, and he stood and held his abdomen until the hunger cramps receded. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z While Mr. D was returning the test papers, he gave the class a few minutes of free time to sharpen pencils or stretch or talk. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Somehow the cold lake water actually made it worse, sharpened it. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Crossing her yard to a large rust-colored stump, she quickly drove the two nails side-by-side into the block, then sat down on a nearby sawhorse to sharpen her ax with a file. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave me a box of used pencils to sharpen. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The tools, the sharpening wheel, the wall full of puppets—all glowed warm and cheerful in the cones of amber light. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Garrett confessed what he told Henry, and Henry didn’t waste any time sharpening it into a weapon to use against me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z At least a thousand, maybe more: bowmen, spearmen, peasants armed with scythes and sharpened sticks, freeriders and mounted archers, and another hundred knights to stiffen them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Cole asked with a wry smile, as he sharpened a sapling for a hot-dog stick. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He heard voices all around him, watery and far away at first, and then sharpening into focus. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z When my vision sharpens, I can tell that my leg is swollen under the bandages. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The next day two thousand men, many armed with sharpened sticks, advanced on McArthur’s workers, seized two, and began beating them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The gray-green surface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The headache was sharpening its teeth on the inside of my skull. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z After they choked down their meagre supper, Meera sat with her back against a wall, sharpening her dagger on a whetstone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Maybe it was the danger closing in from all sides that had sharpened his senses. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z And with her father, her brooding watchfulness sharpened into poison. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z An extraordinary vitality possessed them, sharpening their teeth and nails. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Wish I'd said, “Here's my pocket money, sharpen what you can, please, right now.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Laura's voice is tense and bright like a newly sharpened knife that every time she speaks cuts a little sliver from her self-control. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Finely groomed purple and black feathers sprouted from its slender arms, and each razor-like claw on its feet had been shined and sharpened. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z My anger sharpens like a blade toward the armored silhouette before me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Rishi made the first strokes, his hand dwarfing the stub of charcoal pencil that had obviously been sharpened many, many times. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The owner of an Indianapolis repair shop testified that Holmes had come into his shop on October 3, 1894, with two cases of surgical instruments and asked to have them sharpened. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The question came out before she could restrain herself, so used was she to sharpening her words, to watching for terror in the eyes of boys. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When they got there a group of men were already pulling the monster off the sharpened stakes they had set in the bottom of a pit covered with dry leaves, and it stopped lowing. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z My fingers were sliding on my sharpened Number 2 pencil. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z His nose sharpened when he saw the greasy sink with its scum of food bits at the bottom. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Without a word, I drew my sharpened sword and in one bound held it against her throat. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He snapped the pencil in two and handed her the sharpened end. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The presence of the master, Ranofer discovered, sharpened Pai’s already sharp eye and diminished his short temper to the vanishing point. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I loved my desk, my teachers, the smell of freshly sharpened pencils waiting patiently in their box. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Maman made our eating table into a study table, with everything neatly in place—notebooks, two pendls, the knife for sharpening, and a candle stuck in a bottle. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Another component of the method concerns improvisation, which helps students sharpen their spontaneous reactions and physical responses to music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He has hurried to find me a knife to sharpen my pencil. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He keeps working on the scim, shining it, then sharpening it with a whetstone until it gleams. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “No,” I lied, and got up to sharpen my pencil. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The next one displayed inmate weapons: a sharpened piece of Plexiglas, a filed-down serving spoon, a metal spike. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can’t you see the wolves is laying in wait? Don’t you hear folk sharpening knives and waiting on you?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Along the near edge, rebels sat against the road, sharpening their machetes on the chunked remains of what had, at some point in the last hundred years, been a paved thoroughfare. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Their mingled scents drifted in the air, rousing all my senses and sharpening my mind. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They smoke their two pipes of opium in the afternoon and it rests and sharpens them, and they sit through the night and their minds are wonderful. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He insists it sharpens the mind the way a whetstone sharpens a blade. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z A sort of...sharpening of the lines of her, as though a diaphanous veil had been lifted. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He caught sight of Eril-Fane again, and saw that his wry amusement had sharpened to a kind of keen appraisal. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The possibility of danger serves merely to sharpen his awareness and control. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Her gaze went again to Blue Eyes, obsessively sharpening her machete. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Which is why, instead of giving into the god-awful throbbing pain in my right shoulder, I channel it—using the pain as a tool to sharpen my focus. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The teeth were rusty and dull and he sat in front of the fire with a rattail file and tried to sharpen them but to little purpose. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Her voice was no longer tremulous; it carried the authoritative note sharpened by long years of mothering a large family. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The fear drained away, but the aftereffects of panic remained, sharpening Kate’s senses. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She went first to the barn, where the men were sharpening hoes and sickles in preparation for the summer hay cutting. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Half a league from the crossroads, a barricade of sharpened stakes had been erected, manned by pikemen and archers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The Hephaestus cabin had set up traps around the entrance to the Labyrinth—razor wire, pits filled with pots of Greek fire, rows of sharpened sticks to deflect a charge. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The senators read newspapers, jumped up and down opening and closing doors and windows, gazed at the ceiling, sharpened pencils, clipped their fingernails, stretched, and yawned. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z And since politics makes strange bedfellows, Alfred Lanning sat at the other side of the desk with his ferocious white eyebrows bent far forward over eyes in which chronic impatience had sharpened to acuity. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I know how sunlight can sharpen pains in the head, so I tell her she must go inside. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Better sharpen your pencil,” she called over to me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A deep ditch had been dug around it, with sharpened stakes inside. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The mirror still hung there from his time, and beside it a long leather strop for sharpening the edge on his cutthroat razor. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I pass the days as productively as I can: trying to stay clean, sharpen my aim, and keep my lip buttoned from Vespers till breakfast. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while he rose on his hind legs and stretched his forepaws to their full extent against a tree, then methodically sharpened their claws on the bark. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The prongs of each forklift had been sharpened into oversized sword blades. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The sound sharpens my fear into a hard point stabbing at my center. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It is an unlucky time for travelers and for the sick; children are not given their true name during the Fallows, and no Deeds are sung, nor swords nor edge-tools sharpened, nor oaths sworn. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He read the letter from the Shadow Tower again, sharpened a quill, and unstoppered a pot of thick black ink. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mother was out with the chickens, but Father was in the taproom sharpening the two-man saw, because we were going out to the woodlot. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her heart beating so quickly, every sense sharpened. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Some of us are experts at splitting, flaking, sharpening and polishing, as well as finding, rocks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They kept chanting over and over again as they scratched at us with their sharpened talons. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Mr. Crouch stared back, his face somehow sharpened, each line upon it more deeply etched. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z All along First Avenue, giants sharpened their axes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I scrambled over the white split rail fence and carefully picked my way past the sharpened stakes of the interior fence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z There, it ate the grass left out for it as the men sharpened their knives. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But his hearing had sharpened considerably since power and artificial lights had mostly become a thing of his past. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I cannot look at the face of my Negro woodchopper without fancying that he sharpens the axe for my daughter. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Tony D. is looking up at me and he's showing his white teeth, I swear they've been sharpened to look like vampire teeth, and I go, "Uh-oh," and start to get real cold inside. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z It faced out, rather than in, and the spears of sharpened wood were like a fence. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The horns on top of their heads looked like they’d just been sharpened. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I felt their attention sharpen at the homely sight of it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She cleared out weeds and broke up the ground with a sharpened stick. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I opened my schoolbag and took out my folding penknife that I used for sharpening pencils. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She grumbled to herself all morning over her work while Tom and Samuel went over the boring equipment, sharpened bits, drew sketches of windmills new in design, and measured for timbers and redwood water tanks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Some were armed with nothing more than sharpened sticks. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z One morning she was pulled out of her uneasy, thick sleep by a steady pounding that sharpened into a knocking at her bedroom door. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But Ben’s eye had sharpened with practice and age. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We sharpen their ears to the malicious, hardly audible buzz of the smaller shells that are not easily distinguishable. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Reynie hustled forward, sharpened his pencil—he felt all eyes upon him as he ground away, checked the tip, and ground away again—and hurried back to his seat. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z His front teeth had been sharpened to points by bone or grinding or evolution, I couldn’t be sure. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Longstreet was sitting on a camp stool, whittling slowly on a stick, making a point, sharpening the point, sharpening, sharpening. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But he saw his dad’s eyes sharpen in concentration. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He lifted his fingers from the keyboard and sat perfectly still He felt his hearing sharpen and sharpen until it seemed like another sense entirely, reaching out and around him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He saw a buck rub his antlers on a tree, perhaps to sharpen them or perhaps simply because they itched. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The father sharpened the butcher knife with the whetstone he used to whet his scythe and his goose-necked brier hook in the summer when he cut brambles and young sumac in the fencerows. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z His drinking in Nsukka—his auburn, finely refined brandy—had sharpened his mind, distilled his ideas and his confidence so that he sat in the living room and talked and talked and everybody listened. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The girl’s voice took on the edge of a blade sharpened on a stone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Coins were contraband: you can sharpen the edges against a stone, slice open someone’s face in a fight. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z After a couple of minutes he settled outside the Waystone, set up his sharpening wheel and began to grind a knife. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Their claws have been filed and sharpened and they use them for scratching and cutting. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of a crescent moon curve they're a half-moon, the blades weighted and sharpened on both sides to easily cut in either direction. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was smaller than he remembered and fixed to a single, long, square post, sharpened at the further end to put into the earth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Fennel sharpens the sight and is an antidote to some poisons. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z As before, Sam found that his hearing was sharpened, but that to his sight the things of this world seemed thin and vague. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z When he found the perfect sapling, he hacked it off with the knife blade and sharpened the end. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Arya took out the dagger and sharpened it to keep her hands busy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Geisbert tried to look at many samples of virus as a way of sharpening his skills with an electron microscope. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe fetched it from the toolbox cached underneath what was left of his front seat, sat down on that seat with the door open, and began to sharpen the ax. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain had just washed everything, seeming to sharpen the plants’ smells. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Then at lunch recess—during which we all sharpened our three Number 2 pencils again—the power came on. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “These haven’t been sharpened in ages, they are rusted, and I doubt they could cut through grass, much less a shamblers neck.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z They were sharpened sticks stuck into the ground or in pits. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The foggy shapes in the Foe-Glass were sharpening, had become more distinct. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z All around her, the riders raised their lances, and the dirt and leaves that had buried the cruel bright points fell away to reveal the gleam of sharpened steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I need a whetstone, to sharpen a blade with. The finest we have here. And I wish to have the auger, the drill, called Rati.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I took my seat and got my pad and sharpened my pencil. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Age and experience had sharpened Clara’s ability to divine the occult and to move objects from afar. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned my pad to a clean page and sharpened up my pencil. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “We’re going to cook all of Abuela’s best dishes,” she said, sharpening her knife and motioning for me to grab an apron. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In gloved hands were clutched all manner of weapons: longswords and lances and sharpened scythes, spiked clubs and daggers and heavy iron mauls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z So she retreated into the thick jungles of Oxscini to sharpen her skills and study the object. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Captain Smith finds me using a hatchet to sharpen palisade post tips. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Above all, they sharpened her desire to make something of her own life. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z From a different wagon came the steady rhythmic scrape of steel on stone as Yoren sat, chewing sourleaf and sharpening the edge of his dirk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But the atomic bombing, if anything, just sharpened our worry. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z A carefully trimmed beard the color of soot sharpened the edges of his knife blade face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She sat down on a rock and picked up a machete, started sharpening it. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z There in the lead was King Azaz, his dazzling armor embossed with every letter in the alphabet, and, with him, the Mathemagician, brandishing a freshly sharpened staff. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z But Matty, still a young boy, had been with him then, as a guide; and Matty had seen the twig grow, expand, sharpen, aim itself, and stab. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Shagrat’s voice was lowered, so that even with his strangely sharpened hearing Sam could only just catch what was said. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z We sang along, pointing as she did with our sharpened pencils, rubber end out. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Jake sharpened the end of a match and picked a troublesome cavity in a tooth. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Their summits glimmered pale and jagged as a row of sharpened teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Nhamo had heard a story of a witch who had her eyes poked out with a sharpened stick. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Bast’s normally affable expression sharpened into a glare. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And sitting atop it is a new pencil, freshly sharpened. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The pregnant girls just sighed at the news and went on sweeping and sprinkling the dirt yards, and the young men sharpened their blades till the edges whistled. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He went on: “If anything these schools are a factor deepening and sharpening social distinctions.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Many a winning lottery ticket holder, upon receiving the news, has spent the entire afternoon methodically sharpening pencils; for all we know some are sharpening still, their winnings yet unclaimed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Two men, who also sharpened the spears, did this work, laboring far into the night by the light of seaweed fires. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z This was lined with sharpened stakes by a solitary beaver. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z So, when the alarm went off at seven, I dreamed I was back in that car, stuck in the river, sitting behind Screaming Ned as he sharpened his meat cleavers. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The gold leaf was rubbed off, and each separate six-inch hook was sharpened and filed to a deadly point. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He told Louie that some of his rival coaches were ordering their runners to sharpen their spikes and slash him. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Papa helps me sharpen them with his knife, and he doesn’t question me about my writing. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Magdalys could feel that grim determination sharpen their focus as their shakiness fell away. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z My words are sharpened to angry spears now. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Then a test booklet appeared oh the podium in front of her, along with a sharpened pencil. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z She slowly sharpened the stick until the point gleamed in the moonlight. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was waxen, and his sharp features were sharpened. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If I am a weapon, then I’m being sharpened against a grindstone every day. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She wanted him to have a European experience and sharpen his use of foreign languages, which she kept insisting was so vital for his education. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “He asked for one pound and I paid it. For sharpening all the knives, and a jolly good job he made of them. One pound. A penny more than one of your frozen Greenland pizzas.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Sierra sharpened her mind and allowed her vision to slip alongside the spirits as they, thundered through the old anthropologist’s inner workings. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z That room was silent with the fury of avenging angels sharpening their radiance before they strike. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know why Doc would sharpen a cane, but it would make a good weapon. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Nick Farthing grinned down at him, a sharpened pencil in his fist. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I picked the pencil out of his palm and was glad it had been sharpened to a stub so he couldn't see my name in gold letters inscribed on the side. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z As the crates drifted closer, the soft green shapes slowly sharpened into the hard edges of a wild, rocky island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He put die three fish on the board, pushed sharpened pegs through their tails into cracks on the cooking board, and propped it next to the reddest part of the coals. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He grabbed the Webbs’ cat, trussed her, hung her up by her heels to a hook, and began to sharpen his knife. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My sensibilities became sharpened to the point where I began paying singular attention to little oddities that previously I had dismissed without thought, now thinking that they were manifestations of witchcraft. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He could hear the Sisters singing as they pounded flour or boiled down herbs or sharpened their knives. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Each of the kids held a stick, the end sharpened, and had the look of someone with a secret. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But for a while they could still feel, and indeed the senses of their feet and fingers at first seemed sharpened almost painfully. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I quickly sharpened my pencil and got a clean pad of paper on my desk. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The economic hardships of the last few years had only sharpened the distinctions between them and the boys they were about to take on. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Fingernail marks. He was desperate to get away—to drag himself by his fingertips, if necessary. He was alive the entire time that thing sharpened its claws on the stone while its master watched.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z So the trunks stayed where they were and Petra Cotes set about reconquering the husband by sharpening the only weapons that his daughter could not use on him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When they saw Catelyn's banners, they emerged from behind their sharpened stakes and sent a man over from the far bank to lead her party across. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Archer sat across from her, legs swung over the branches for balance as he sharpened his new knives. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z In her other hand she carried the sharpened stick, which she used as a walking staff. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z My senses gradually sharpen—now I'm very aware of the pain in my side and arm. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I also took out a sharpened pencil and a pad of Post-it notes to jot down any ideas that might come to mind. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z I say it rather with irony sharpened by self-pity. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Aureliano, whose mysterious intuition had become sharpened with the misfortune, felt a glow of clairvoyance when he saw her come in. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Ivy’s tone sharpened, but if Dad noticed, he didn’t say anything about it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Other times, he appears more like a man: He spreads books and papers and archno-techno drawings on the table and makes notes with his sharpened pencil. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z They’d gone there with other kids and imagined they were hiding out, sharpening alder sticks with pocketknives to be used in their defense. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Adam could hear the singing lilt of his speech and yet could detect no word pronounced in a strange manner except perhaps in sharpened t’s and /’s held high on the tongue. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Aleuts who sharpened the long spears stopped this work and gave all their time to skinning the otter which were brought in at dusk. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He sharpened the pencil and spread out the piece of paper. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Whatever did this sharpened its nails before it gutted him.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “All but old Candy. He just sets in the bunk house sharpening his pencil and sharpening and figuring.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been sitting behind me sharpening his bayonet and listening as I explained what a sennimbari meant to a Japanese soldier. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z At last the cub, infuriated beyond bearing, did leap, full at the sharpened stick, not even seeing it in his blind rage. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Several creases sharpen in the forehead of the vice minister’s wife. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In order to live it has sharpened its claws! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z At the mention of the word “champions,” the attentiveness of the listening students seemed to sharpen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Joe had listened intently, grinding hard with the file, and when Bloom finished he quit sharpening the ax. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As I sharpened, I imagined using the knife to cut through the ropes that tied us to New York. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Her Grace freed you from your chains. It is for you to sharpen your swords and defend your own freedom when she leaves.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z All of these young players would eventually be surpassed by Fischer, but they tested him with daring alternative variations, and his play sharpened as a result. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z At first I thought the draccus was asleep, but as my eyes sharpened I could see its head weaving steadily back and forth, back and forth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I quickly sharpened my pencil, cracked my knuckles, yawned, stretched my arms, and was ready. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Her blue eyes, so pale before, sharpened and she spat out, “What’re you looking at me like that for?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat in the fields, from which the dragon had withdrawn its moisture, and sharpened those hoes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There were several pads of lined paper and a bundle of sharpened pencils held together with a rubber band. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft hush of it moving finally one day into letters. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z My eyes adjust, and bars sharpen into view in the dim light. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z And in his shop he sharpened plows and mended harrows and welded broken axles and shod horses. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He hid the whetstone, so they had to hunt for it when the blades needed sharpening. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Students with new notebooks and sharpened pencils in hand ambled about the courtyard, kicking up dust, chatting in groups, waiting for the class captains’ whistles. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She sharpened the knife on a convenient stone and began hacking at the gardenias, scratching herself on the thorns. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she borrowed a nicely sharpened pencil from the blue mason jar on the librarian’s desk. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Then, while Daniel sharpened his knives, I began lifting chickens from the crates. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I made swords out of branches, sharpening the tips with a steak knife stolen from the kitchen. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I handed him things, and I sharpened his pencils, which he kept in a shaving mug. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Noting and repeating my observations only sharpened my mental catalog. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I also took three bunches of sticky notes, my whole bundle of sharpened pencils, a few pens, and ran back to the living room. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Sullenly, she set to plucking a chicken while Yoren sat on the end of the bench sharpening the edge of his dirk with a whetstone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She worked on it for a week, using a sharpened Popsicle stick to shape the slightly bulging eyes and the goatee and earring and longish hair. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And the stone had an edge to it, sharpened against me, for I had killed her.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then he began to thrust and her pleasure multiplied, sharpened on stone so that each tiny spark became a pleasure all its own. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A couple of other demigods sat with him, sharpening their swords. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He ate one-handed, the other clutching a sharpened stick lest anyone try to wrest away his prize. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Being deprived of sight, Frodo found his hearing and other senses sharpened. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The writers then dispersed in search of the stories that would illuminate, sharpen, or possibly contradict, their working hypotheses. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The other end was sharpened and caked with gray dirt. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Theo had not actually written the article on the local hero, but he had sharpened pencils for the reporter who did. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as though some of her senses had been dulled, but others had been sharpened. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Some sat sharpening their weapons; others sacrificed to queer gods, or dulled their nerves with milk of the poppy before going out to die. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He glared at me and went to sharpen his pencil. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z We’ve heard how they sharpened their teeth and stormed the invaders in northeastern Congo, feeding on nothing but rage. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was about a quarter mile square, with earthen ramparts on all four sides, the tops lined with sharpened spikes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z All my senses sharpened as we headed for the porch. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Kids who sharpen their pencils, go to the board to do math problems, and open their books to read a poem. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I took another breath, slower than the first, and tried not to think on the newly sharpened knives on the kitchen steps. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Mechanics rolled up their sleeves and sharpened their eyes; a broken piston, an improperly locked shoulder harness, a faulty fuel tank light, any one of these could cost lives. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Upon leaving King’s we would go to the open veld, where we would imitate the various fighting methods—using sharpened sticks and iron rods—we had seen in the pictures. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sitting in his chair, sharpening his mean instruments and putting extra sting into his medicines. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked, my near catastrophe with Deoch having sharpened my anxiety. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The stake was in his hands, the stake sharpened at both ends, the stake that vibrated so wildly, that grew long, short, light, heavy, light again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The sharpened cane I used when I thought an evil spirit was chasing me and Jay. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Some did double takes when they saw TysOn, but most just walked grimly past and carried on with their duties—running messages, toting swords to sharpen on the grinding wheels. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z While Bobby had no hope of placing among the top contenders, he was eager to continue his winning streak, aware that the opportunity to compete against stronger players would sharpen his game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Besides, each of his tentacles has sixty-two razorlike barbs that have to be sharpened daily.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Sumerian scribes had progressed to inscribing on clay tablets with sharpened reeds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She sat on the side of the unhitched chariot and sharpened her knives with a whetstone. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He met my gaze, and his rheumy eyes sharpened. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I couldn’t wait to see my teacher’s welcoming smile, open to the next page in a book, or start marking a clean work sheet with a sharpened pencil. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He was shaved by a manservant with a blade sharpened daily, and his tailor’s bill could have fed a village. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They stuck up at intervals in every direction, strangely sharpening the loneliness and desolation, sometimes the only sign of human presence in an acre or two of sand. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran back to where he’d landed, pulled him to his feet, and dragged him by the hand through the field of sharpened sticks, to the safety of Rose Hill. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I go weak in the knees with dread and admiration, watching him sharpen his hopes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the future, if I wanted to disguise myself as effectively as the wights, I’d have to sharpen my acting skills. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He must have sharpened his pencil fifteen times during that test. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Mama's shears have been freshly sharpened, and they cut through newsprint like nothing. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Millard searched through the gravel until he found a sharpened stone, and, using another stone as a hammer, he chipped an inscription of his own below the others. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Probably the first human had nothing but a sharpened stick or a piece of rock. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z At worst, unrestrained, a matching set of sharpened kitchen knives would be drawn across her optic nerve, and then again, with a greater downward pressure, and she would be entirely shut in and alone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And then, as if the lens of a camera had sharpened its focus, the faces cleared. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The ice did not help—if anything it sharpened the sourness, and made the taste linger in the mouth after the mead was swallowed. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He took out the pencil; it was not sharpened. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Ralph fumbled to hold his spear so that it was point foremost; and now he saw that the stick was sharpened at both ends. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He’s come to Paris not only to be with his brother but also to sharpen his skills and further his career. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She peered at me over her glasses; her eyes sharpened on me like a bird of prey spying a mouse. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z At the same time I was feeling alarmed about rumors of segregationist training programs to sharpen the skills of hooligans inside school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He brought paper and ink to the table, and sharpened a quill. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z After a time he heard die noise again, the rasp of steel on stone as Bronn sharpened his sword. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z On deck, Carlyle jabs at the squid with a mop handle sharpened into a harpoon, but the creature’s flesh is too thick for him to do much damage. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z At the same time, Truman issued Executive Order 9980, sharpening the teeth of the wartime mandate that had helped bring West Area Computing into existence. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I had spent five days in a hospital and the world around seemed sharpened now and pulsing with life. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z At once he was aware that hearing was sharpened while sight was dimmed, but otherwise than in Shelob’s lair. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Colonel Cathcart transferred a round glass paperweight competently from the right edge of his desk to the left edge and picked up a sharpened pencil. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “So get your pencils sharpened and your desk in order. School begins at nine o’clock.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The tiger sharpened its claws on the stone elephant. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z There’s a man in goggles pumping his sharpening wheel, a dull ax shrieking against its surface. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There I joined some twenty others, all of whom were gasping, with red, wet faces, as the pain sharpened. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The afternoon sun sharpens their profiles, her father’s profile. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z His mother was pounding something in a mortar and his father was stooped near her, sharpening a knife against a stone. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It reminded him of slicing a yam with a newly sharpened knife, the easy perfection in every slice. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Grandma had provided me with a new notepad, a sharpened pencil, and color crayons, which I put on the desk. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Nailer glanced over at Blue Eyes, who was sharpening a new machete. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He reached into his pants pocket and pulled out a small pocketknife, sharpening the edges on the metal surface of the fence. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Then, scoffing at herself for being such an old-fashioned Eskimo, she sharpened her man’s knife on a stone and set to work. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For as long as she could remember, she had been sensitive to all the shifting meridians of energy around her, and her years at the Academy had sharpened and honed her awareness of them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Slopper, not having graduated to full Hunter status, carried a sharpened stick. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z But during the night, she sharpened her long tooth—whisk, whisk, whisk—and prepared to eat him. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Clustered in the left corner of the room stood twenty or so black men, all wearing work coats and dungarees, a few sharpening their outfits with newsboy caps or brimmed hats. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z His cleverness, over time, has sharpened into a rapier wit. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The atmosphere should probably sharpen your ears and restrain me to concentrate on those aspects which are tasty, edifying and constructive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He laid out the tablet and sharpened the pencils with his pocketknife. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A sharpened stick about five feet long trailed from his right hand, and except for a pair of tattered shorts held up by his knife-belt he was naked. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “I’ll have to get my rig together, do a piece of sharpening, and put my house in order. In a few days I’ll send the equipment with Tom.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z You got a whetstone around, I could sharpen it for you.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure I said it right, but the butcher sharpens his face, slams down our meat, and motions us away. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They had never even been sharpened; their ends were flat. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He was used to having his Wraith around—feeding the crows outside his window, sharpening her knives while he worked at his desk, chastising him with her Suli proverbs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The colored pencils were taken away by the staff when I wasn’t looking one day, leaving just plastic markers and soft pastels—things that don’t need to be sharpened. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z That had all passed now with his disgrace, and what on the part of the school officials had been an attitude of contempt blunted by tolerance, had now become a contempt sharpened by hate. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a good mind the old man had—sharpened in its work. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z From this he cut off a good piece, and then he and his men sharpened it and hardened the point by turning it round and round in the fire. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He sharpened a quill with his small pen knife to scribe these things in sloe or lampblack? The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z His work amuses, unsettles, questions and makes you look twice and think thrice; laugh out loud; and in general gain a sharpened awareness of the overlapping processes of art-making, art viewing and art thinking. Art Review: Tweaking Tradition, Even In Its Temple 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z Minarets began to find fingerlike form against the sharpening horizon. Personal Journeys: All Aboard the Orient Local 2014-04-23T21:47:59Z After teaching himself to play guitar, he moved to Chicago in 1955 and worked in a box factory by day while sharpening his guitar skills in blues clubs by night. Jimmy Dawkins, Fast-Fingered Blues Guitarist, Dies at 76 2013-04-19T03:05:41Z "Next time, bring it home whole," I told the man who sharpens my knives. Meat 'n greet: there's help at your neighborhood supermarket 2011-02-09T06:11:06Z On Tuesday he gave him a hard time for sharpening a piece of wood! Rewind TV: Miranda; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; Accused: Willy's Story; Garrow's Law 2010-11-21T00:07:00Z The author, playwright, politician and commentator whose vast and sharpened range of published works and public remarks were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday at age 86 in Los Angeles. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z That voice took shape and sharpened over time, but it would return again and again to the banks of the Tuckahoe River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born in 1818. A Big New Biography Treats Frederick Douglass as Man, Not Myth 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The pop-savvy new satire at Studio Theatre is a reality TV show confining a white Canadian pop star with two black hip-hop artists from Chicago who are tasked with sharpening his edge. Review | ‘Pygmalion’ meets hip-hop in a satire on race at Studio Theatre 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The intricate process takes only a few cuts before the harvesters peel the bark away like a sharpening pencil. In Spain, an Eco-Tour That Follows Cork From Tree to Bottle 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The United States last month sharpened its travel warning to Haiti, citing kidnappings, crime, cholera and a tattered infrastructure. Branford Marsalis headlines jazz festival in Haiti 2013-01-18T22:56:14Z The production’s sharpened focus on moral ambiguity extends even to Willow Geer’s steely, unsentimental turn as Portia, the quick-witted ostensible heroine who disguises herself as a lawyer to turn the tables on Shylock. Shylock, revisited, in Theatricum's 'Merchant of Venice' 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Nestled within the jumble was a small Orchard Point oyster sharpened with ginger vinaigrette and verjus, the pressed juice of unripened grapes. Review | Oyster Oyster, meatless and marvelous, has become one of D.C.’s best restaurants 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z You may find, though, that teaching any kind of English, math, reading, science, or writing skill truly sharpens your own understanding. 4 Ways Students Can Prep for SATs Over the Summer 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z One guard tells the authors that, walking around Rikers, you can hear things being sharpened. An Oral History of Rikers Island 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z And, like those shows, it grows on you, because it sharpens as it goes along. Review: Rental Wackiness, Detailed in TBS’s ‘The Guest Book’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z But is this process of increasing detail – of continually sharpening up the focus – enough? 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z They ingested the poison while sharpening tips Of their brushes by twirling the points with their lips. Style Invitational Week 1109: Fictoids of Columbia — tell us some fake D.C. trivia 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Even here, however, Jimmy falls back on his con man skill of persuasion, sharpened by years of seeing easy marks at a distance and taking advantage his target's weaknesses. The "Better Call Saul" point of no return: Jimmy McGill is dead, and Saul Goodman rises 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z These tiny, temporary shifts work together to sharpen our senses and help us cope with an obstacle. For Home Cooks, Burnout Is a Reality This Holiday Season 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Looking back is a way to sharpen the focus on the things you want to change in your life. Sarah Paulson on relationships, her Emmy win and female beauty standards 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The librarian’s gift of a little notebook and a sharpened pencil began his writer’s journey. Gary Paulsen tells his own survival story in ‘Gone to the Woods’ 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Doma refined and sharpened his tribal silhouette, sending out long, lean pantsuits and elaborately folded coats with an Eastern twist instead of the bulky, monastic fare of seasons past. Move over Galliano, Lady Gaga makes debut 2011-03-03T16:17:00Z Shaw's opinions on municipal politics and public health at the turn of the century were formed and sharpened by his years as a vestryman and borough councillor for the St Pancras district of London. Bernard Shaw and his lethally absurd doctor's dilemma 2012-07-13T21:54:04Z And the attacks, the founders say, have only sharpened the museum’s resolve to forge connections with young people in Molenbeek. In Brussels, Art Museum Brings Hope to Muslim Neighborhood of Molenbeek 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z It helped him sharpen his voice into something more cutting, more informed. He makes white privilege a punch line. Will America get the joke? 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z In contrast to the crush of her ravaged features, she experienced a sharpening of her other senses, a kind of extreme lucidity. ‘In the Eye of the Wild,’ a Haunting Memoir About Life After a Bear Attack 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The knife sharpens easily, has a dark patina, a deep bolster and a beautiful if somewhat heavy handle of Oregon big leaf maple burl. An American-Forged Knife With Japanese Influences 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z These two siblings lash out at each other with words sharpened by grief. Review | Honoring the dead? Nathan Englander’s ‘kaddish.com’ imagines there’s an app for that. 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Merrick's absence from England for the mid-1970s likely sharpened his ability to see the crumbling, rotting Britain of that time very clearly. Why The Black Panther can hold its head up high 2012-06-06T15:46:19Z The recent Ofsted report on history teaching quotes many students as saying how much they enjoy the way it sharpens their critical faculties. Make history compulsory for the right reasons 2011-08-26T21:30:03Z Being away from home can sharpen your observations about what’s left behind. Books of The Times: ‘The New Mind of the South,’ by Tracy Thompson 2013-04-23T17:04:03Z Some stones have two sides: a coarser side for removing dents and sharpening very dull blades, and a more refined side for polishing and edge refinement. The very best way to sharpen your knives 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z Her ambitions sharpened as her ear tuned to Beckett’s Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, his tortured but exact syntax, the sonic perfection of his prose as it sought the comic depths of human suffering. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The water there was opaque, which sharpened a sense of mysterious life-forms teeming below. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Shark? 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z But in these 1971-set chapters, he's concerned that his partner's loneliness, sharpened by despair, poses a danger to himself and others. As "Endeavour" approaches the end of its run, more of us should appreciate its mystery 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z There was a sharpened sense that the unease would never end. Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Listen for the sound of knives being sharpened at the onset of “You Should See Me in a Crown,” and you’ll get the picture. Billie Eilish is the new pop intelligentsia 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z But mostly he was a combative writer whose strict interpretation of the Constitution on gay rights, gun control and other polarizing issues galvanized conservatives and sharpened the acrimony in American politics. Shining a light into the political chasm of America through Scalia and 'The Originalist' 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Blitz the ingredients for the avocado cream to a smooth sauce; add the juice of the second lime if the flavours need sharpening. The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ recipes for Korean-style pork belly, and baked pumpkin cheesecake 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Suddenly, the harmonies grow more intricate and less predictable, and the lyrics sharpen. Kacey Musgraves, Harper Lee, and the Home-town Dilemma 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Critics sharpened their knives, often dismissing the film as exploitative drivel. William Peter Blatty, author of ‘The Exorcist,’ dies at 89 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z But all you need to sharpen your mental acuity is something you already own: your legs. Need a brain boost? Exercise. In contrast, most of Escape From the Werewolf Village was played at a table that was set with sharpened pencils, clipboards, a sealed envelope and a small chest with a four-number lock attached to it. In Escape Rooms, Video Games Meet Real Life 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The camera zooms in, the focus sharpens, charming little details emerge. Marriage Requires Amnesia 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z The book describes Scagel’s daily life, tempering and sharpening steel over coal flames and wooden wheels. Antiques: Knives of William Scagel, Storied Blacksmith, for Sale 2012-03-01T23:48:40Z In a tiny, ramshackle classroom, seven of us students listened to our affable, heavily tattooed instructor, Charlie Mirisola, explain the differences between various types of knives, and the proper way to hold and sharpen them. Will.i.amsburg 2013-05-01T22:16:49Z But the tradeoff is a sharpened sense of the organic relationship between art and its social context. Art Review: The Heart That Beats, Heats, Chills and Whips 2010-09-19T22:42:00Z A cup holds an arsenal of freshly sharpened pencils, a studiously analog statement in this digital age. Samira Nasr, a fashion first at Harper’s Bazaar: ‘I just want to bring more people with me to the party’ 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z “Pike and dill” translates into winey, pan-fried fish sharpened with horseradish and rich with stripes of pike mousseline, roe-bejeweled sour cream and a shimmering sauce of dill and lovage. Helsinki’s food scene, coming on strong And on Saturday it spoke with a peculiar directness — sharpened by the prospect of the Scottish referendum that could, this week, bring what everybody knows as the United Kingdom to an end. Last Night of the London Proms: A Sonic Potpourri 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Seeking to sharpen their attitudes toward Marina, he said, “It’s like the one you see at the high school reunion: ‘I always hated you, but I’m still married.’ ” Met?s Replacement Gets in Tune 2010-09-21T22:09:00Z A death sharpens the generational and identity issues of an educated Bengali family in Britain in this sensitive, serious drama. This week's new films 2011-03-12T00:07:12Z Mr. Ashford said the characters’ major songs are in place but some will be streamlined or sharpened in the months ahead. ArtsBeat Blog: Weinstein Company Moving Ahead With 'Finding Neverland' Musical, Its First 2011-12-20T17:03:25Z Ax murders of the world, sharpen your blades! ArtsBeat: The Muppets Strike Back at Goldman Sachs 2012-03-27T17:19:12Z Sale of many varieties of apples, pears, plums and cherries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, kiwi and fig cuttings, tool sharpening, fruit lectures, 10 a.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-03-19T16:30:03Z Her calendar includes reminders to stake her peonies, sharpen her knives and schedule her grandchildren’s sailing lessons, and her book includes month-by-month ideas, including time to “Get Off the Grid.” The 10 books to read in January 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Only in his most overtly political work do all components align and fuse, defining and sharpening one another. Raymond Pettibon, Wielding an Art Mightier Than the Sword 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z "A stand-out accompaniment, the potatoes are roasted, then tossed with stir-fried spring onions and then drizzled with a rich soy dressing that is sharpened by the acidic hit of vinegar," writes recipe developer Lara Lee. 22 crispy, creamy potato side dishes 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z With invisible agents of death lurking all about, you don’t need the thrill of adventure travel to sharpen the senses. In coastal Maine, the perfect pace for self-quarantining 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Dial the time back to 1648, to the English Civil War when Roundheads and Cavaliers battled with flintlock weapons and sharpened pikes. ‘A Field in England’: an original, mind-blowing trip set in 1648 2014-02-06T22:43:31Z That poetic quality was sharpened in New York and matured in Italy. Cy Twombly's late works alongside Turner and Monet – the week in art 2012-06-15T11:47:02Z Between double- or triple-feature days, he would pass the time sharpening his skills. Brian Tyree Henry Finds Wisdom at an Arcade 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z We think it will sharpen our skills and give us even more insight with regard to our panto – more connections to the West End and New York. Lythgoe Family Productions betting on panto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Larger tenderloins can be spiral cut, just use a well sharpened filet knife. Putting the Tender in Pork Tenderloin 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z I remember him briskly sharpening the carving knife, as if preparing for something less innocent than lunch. My quest to be more Welsh 2011-07-29T23:07:29Z An opening of prissy flowered dresses was soon sharpened up with strong tailored pieces, like double-breasted pea jackets. Fashion Review: Trousers Missing on the New York Autumn 2012 Runways 2012-02-13T16:51:14Z As the film progresses, his drawing becomes even more inventive, including a sketch that uses shavings from a sharpened pencil as a kind of pop-up crown for a regal figure. The Imagination of ‘A Monster Calls’ 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z “I kind of learned the craft” doing those films, she says, sharpening her technical proficiency and compositional eye. Perspective | With ‘Detroit,’ Kathryn Bigelow refines an aesthetic grounded in equal parts theory and reality 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z All the services provided good sharpening but the Knife Guy set himself apart by offering the most convenient ordering and shipping system. A great chef’s knife 2012-07-22T17:00:00Z As a barber, you spend a lot of time listening to your co-workers’ stories, hearing them sharpen what they want to say. Cal Ripken’s favorite baseball movie, and 24 others on the best film about their profession 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z But for some reason those names cause me to sharpen my tone and squint my eyes. Motherlode Blog: We Didn’t Name Him Wowee 2013-07-03T19:23:23Z What’s eliminated is wasted motion: the shuffling of paper, the sharpening of pencils, the setting up of shots. Film: Computer Animation, Made by Hand 2010-08-29T02:23:00Z But the instructions made it seem easy enough: Pull the knife through three sections that sharpen, hone, and polish. The controversial kitchen tool that's become my staple 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z In this new state of being, parents like Reza describe a heightened sense of attention, a sharpened awareness of little details and interactions with their children that have stayed with them. Fear, joy, grief, gratitude: The whiplash of parenting during existential chaos 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z "The design and construction emphasize the nip of the waist and exaggerate the hip, while shrunken proportions mixed with a bolder shoulder volume sharpen the classic silhouette," he says in describing the shape. More coincidence than conspiracy at fashion week 2013-02-10T18:35:10Z But there was a problem: As her writing skills sharpened, her publishers told her it would be difficult to shop her songs around town — because they couldn’t imagine anyone else but her singing those lyrics. Maren Morris isn’t trying to be a country music ‘savior,’ but she’s just what Nashville needs 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Jackson said that while he had grown up playing basketball and remained a dedicated N.B.A. fan, he still underwent considerable training to “sharpen my tools a little bit and get my handles right.” How ‘Swagger’ Raised Its Game 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The most soothing dish is soft polenta swirled with crisp, caramelized mushrooms and sharpened with Parmigiano-Reggiano, at once primal and perfect. Review | Sfoglina review: A pronounced expression of pasta and more, from Team Fiola 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Just look for those old saws to be getting sharpened right now. Emmy nominations 2014: some surprises, just not the right ones 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The communal cheer only sharpens the gallows humor. New Music: Albums by Rascal Flatts, Anita Wilson and Loudon Wainwright 2012-04-02T22:29:45Z It sets the tone for 2006's Orpheus, a version of Rilke's masterwork which sharpens the questing at the sonnets' cores: "But is that true?" Selected Poems by Don Paterson ? review 2012-05-18T21:45:03Z On its seventh album, "Codes and Keys" — its third on Atlantic — the band sharpens its anti-Rolling Stones rock to its finest point yet. New Death Cab for Cutie CD its finest yet 2011-05-27T23:06:33Z But when he takes a chance with riskier material, like the dramatization of a brutal incident from “Winesburg, Ohio,” or a mime about the murder of Matthew Shepard, his skills intensify and his focus sharpens. | 'Beyond Words': ?Beyond Words,? One-Man Show by Bill Bowers - Review 2011-10-19T23:04:39Z “I can already see them sharpening their knives,” he said. A Lingering Gettysburg Battle: Where Did Lincoln Stand? 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z I can repair cracked drywall corner beads, sharpen knives with a whetstone and build a short retaining wall, among other things on my to-do list. Pet chicks, pink hair, an old plane: Explore this illustration of readers' pandemic coping habits Almost all television dramas juggle several plots at once, which serve to sharpen one another, create contrasts, switch up the scenery, or leave cliffhangers. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 8: Priorities and Principles 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z He shaved the sides, throwing curlicues of wood into the air, and sharpened the tip. Germany’s Christmas markets take yuletide spirit to another level 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Their mood of mingled anger and sorrow sharpened into lamentation after the sudden death of her husband. Kay WalkingStick’s American History 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z But they still go out for breakfast, and declining vigour is in part made up for by a sharpened appreciation of the world around them. The 100-year-old couple – still married, still going strong 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z On social media, the transactional nature of celebrity activism is sharpened. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z It recently sold its gold mining operation, Nordgold, and sharpened its focus on its core business: steel and related mining. Betting on America 2012-06-07T01:34:51Z Mine,” he pauses for maximum effect, “needs sharpening.” Letterman Books It With Artist-Writer Bruce McCall 2013-11-12T16:18:59Z "And we'll sharpen the point of view and be even more adventurous in our programming choices." Kevin Reilly promises major makeover for TNT and TBS 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z It's a classic debate: whether poverty forces innovation, thriftiness sharpens the cultural cutting edge. Rave reviews for recycled theatre 2010-06-22T11:24:00Z These offerings nonetheless have the potential to sharpen our working knowledge of plays that, in the right risk-taking hands, still have the potential to light our way through the ever-murky present. Notes on a truly Shakespearean year: An enlightened boldness brings out the best in the Bard 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Just that sharpening of that appetite for the bigger screen. Tilda Swinton Has Made the ‘Ultimate Lockdown Film’ 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Would such sacrifice, I wondered, have sharpened my desire to make it as a writer? Riff: ‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Can’ 2013-01-06T08:07:03Z Six years playing in the service sharpened his skills and brought financial stability, but he does not miss the push-ups or the political climate of the Navy. The bluegrass is now being served 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Jahren’s observations, sharpened by her work as a scientist, are not limited to the lab; she’s a whiz at mental states and emotions, too. Dear Match Book: What Audiobooks Will Liven Up My Summer Road Trips? 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z He was the type who shopped for flavored salts at specialty stores and sharpened his own knives, which he would use to mince and crush garlic into paste. My Boyfriend Has Two Girlfriends. Should I Be His Third? 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Sometimes Mr. Palestine manipulated the organ stops to sharpen the focus on a particular note; occasionally he played a brief melodic phrase that would melt into the larger cluster. Music Review: Charlemagne Palestine at Plymouth Church 2014-03-07T22:39:48Z As Noah and Colbert have aimed their satire at Trump and his endless clown car of insanity, their comedy has sharpened and their ratings have surged. Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert step up: Donald Trump made “The Daily Show” and out-of-character Colbert relevant again 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Fairey has called Van Hamersveld’s original “a perfect image” and “my favorite poster of all time…an epiphany that sharpened my focus as an artist.” `Endless Summer' means permanent honor for artist Van Hamersveld 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Now the tasks are to sharpen the repartee and find someplace to go with the series that isn’t already occupied by one of the zillions of others made from the same template. Television Review: ?The Finder,? From Hart Hanson, on Fox - Review 2012-01-11T22:44:27Z Mr. Cobb and Ms. Szeto capitalized on the limitation of a city setback rule to sharpen the points where the two cones meet. 7 Bryant Park Embraces Its Place in the City 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z At best he probably recollects the gist of what was said, then uses his artistic skills and knowledge of the people involved to create a scene that sharpens what he only vaguely recalls. Review | A tale of a family bound by food — and hunger 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The pureness of her technique sharpens the sarcasm to an almost unbearable point. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem’s Soulful Ballet to Stevie Wonder 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Wear one to sharpen your metaphysical perceptions or, maybe, just as a nice pop of color. Browsing: Trench Coats for Spring; New Jewelry; Bonobos Introduces AYR label and More Shopping News 2014-04-23T21:49:59Z They also sharpen visual perception, awakening you to the mundane details of the surrounding world and expanding your understanding of the way images of all sorts imprint themselves on the visual unconscious. Art Review: A Textured Palette Without Much Paint 2011-01-27T22:58:12Z After my years of research, the painting’s significance has become clearer to me: Its affiliation with the Mentens may have clouded its value but also sharpened its ability to depict greed. Does My Family Own a Painting Looted by Nazis? 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Service in the UK, reckons Michel Roux, is "pretty terrible", so here he tries to sharpen it up with an hour dedicated to training new front-of-house staff. Tonight's TV highlights: Michel Roux's Service 2011-01-12T00:05:01Z The gnarl of a tree trunk torques into velvet and sharpens back up. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Travelling alone sharpened something in me, called upon inner resources I didn’t know I possessed. The girl in the cave: how a search for my former hermit's cell led to the old me 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z But he's not letting the presidency stop him from keeping the belligerent persona he's spent decades sharpening on screen in shape, and in the Oval Office meeting he delivered a seriously polished performance. All the vice president’s memes: Reading Mike Pence’s stillness in the Oval Office showdown 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Chafing under Venetian rule for four centuries seemed only to sharpen Padua’s independent spirit. Escape the Venice crowds with these memorable day trips 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Back home, you’d sharpen it up with a leather jacket or mannish blazer. Browsing: Shopping in Your Closet for Coachella Music Festival 2014-04-09T21:20:19Z My job, which I relished as a teenager, was to carve thin, even slices for the whole family with a finely sharpened butcher’s knife. My Search for Lost Time in a Slice of Jewish Rye 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z But that statement may have been a preview of the way the disaster necessitated a sharpening of political comedy's edge. How September 11, 2001 became the borderline dividing two eras of late-night comedy 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Jaylah speaks with a blunt intensity that’s sharpened with a constant tone of coolly theatrical irony, just as Dickinson does in Hawks’s film. A Quasi-American “Star Trek Beyond” 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Yet nature — and its tiniest details in particular — also sharpened his visual acuity and soothed and comforted his often unstable personality. Art Review: ?Van Gogh Up Close? at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-02-02T23:27:06Z By that time, Mr. Allison’s move to Atlantic Records had begun to sharpen his reputation as a singer and songwriter. Mose Allison, a Font of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z In a cappella choral writing, it is often a kink in an otherwise smooth canvas that sharpens or twists the meaning of a given word. Review: In a Gilded Space, a Choir Reflects on War and Peace 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Graphite is a common descriptor, especially in Bordeaux; think of those No. 2 pencils you used to sharpen as a kid. 5 things you need to know about cabernet sauvignon 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z “Found” let me discover the pleasure of yellowtail tuna marinated in lemon and ginger, then rolled in grilled cabbage leaves and sharpened with ramp puree. Patowmack Farm: Fresh from the ground — and from a chef’s imagination There's also the sense that he's polishing his armour, sharpening the steel, and packing his battered but hallowed goblet. Paul Morley interviews Billy Bragg about Glastonbury 2010-06-23T14:17:00Z “Centres,” his new album for Fat Cat, sharpens and strengthens an art that can seem vaporous, beautiful as it is. The Playlist: Jay Z Responds to Police Shootings With ‘Spiritual’ 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z These qualities sharpened Lincoln's mind and made him into the legendary wit whose comedy chops were so deft that Coco seems genuinely in awe of them nearly two centuries later. CNN's "Lincoln" docuseries is a fascinating treasure trove for fans of the best Republican president 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z This is where the lessons taught by my family, my Food Network favorites and a multitude of recipes were clarified and sharpened by professional chef-instructors. 5 of Giada's most comforting recipes to celebrate the arrival of autumn 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z Further sharpening its focus on postwar and contemporary art, the L.A. The L.A. Art Show reinvents itself again — with help from major museums 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z The deer, however, is only wounded, and appears to be sharpening its antlers. Boardwalk Empire Watch: Generation Gap 2011-11-14T12:52:53Z This is especially true of Brown, who makes his character Randall into a swirling ball of internal conflict, which is somewhat sharpened by knowing it’s his birthday. Watch and weep: “This Is Us” will give you something to cry about 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z The acoustics of the room, which painfully sharpen high frequencies, did not help. International Contemporary Ensemble Plays at the Armory 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z McDade, who was born in Brooklyn, sharpened his wit far from the stacks: he wasn’t a librarian or academic but a retired F.B.I. agent. The Indispensable Guide to Early American Murder 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Several fans have told me similar things: that they feel, listening to Russell, as if he is in their skulls, sharpening the world they see in front of them. The Word-of-Mouth Resurgence of Arthur Russell 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Paule Marshall was an exuberant and sharpened storyteller who drew upon classic and vernacular literature and her mother’s kitchen conversations for such fiction as “Brown Girl, Brownstones,” ”Daughters” and “Praisesong for the Widow.” Paule Marshall, novelist of diverse influences, dead at 90 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z If theology often sharpens curses to dogmatic points, great novels can transform them into open-ended questions, unsettling easy pieties about cause and effect, past and present, crime and punishment. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z For the next seven years, the violin was his balm, redirecting his energy and sharpening his focus. Vilified for Virus, Bats Are a New Album’s Seductive Stars 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z He brings a hard-fought gravitas to this old gunslinger character, his familiar face sharpened by weary eyes and deeply set lines reminiscent of old-school Western stars like Randolph Scott and Audie Murphy. ‘Miles Ahead,’ ‘The Exiles’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z The business end has been sharpened, helped partly by those commercial transfers. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre 2011-01-31T00:05:02Z Tabloid newspapers and television dramas have sharpened our appetites for horror stories about family businesses, of Machiavellian parents seated on the thrones of their capitalist empires manipulating their power-mad children like chess pawns. What’s in a Name? For These Design Brands, Generations of Expectations. 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Across his oeuvre, Coates’ prose style and literary prowess are hip-hop sharpened: he believes in the art of dexterous reference, potent, lyrical critique and political storytelling. Ta-Nehisi Coates blazes a singular intellectual path in 'We Were Eight Years in Power' 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z One of the more difficult aspects of sharpening is the little plastic pencil-case sharpeners. Artisinal pencil sharpening 2012-06-07T00:00:00Z Occasionally, though, the images sharpen into vehicles or people. Combat via video screen and its emotional toll 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z It is an opportunity for partisan lawyers to burrow into the arcana of the process in hopes of tweaking the rules in their favor and for activists to sharpen their rhetoric for the next fight. The dark, crazy heart of Florida is on full display — again — at the election recount 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, Game presets often don’t deactivate ALL the TV picture processing elements – such as noise reduction, motion smoothing/sharpening, and dynamic contrast engines – that can contribute to increased input lag. How To Boost Your PlayStation, Xbox And Wii Gaming Skills In Just 60 Seconds 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Pressured to start taking piano lessons at 8 years old, he found repeating scales monotonous but later credited the exercises with sharpening his playing and making it seem more casual. Irving Fields, Composer Who Infused Songs With Latin Rhythms, Dies at 101 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z While most top toques in Paris sharpen their knife skills at the city’s elite kitchens, Inaki Aizpitarte started his career as a dishwasher in Tel Aviv. | Flavor of Le Mois 2011-03-10T19:07:28Z His most recent album, "Popular Problems," captures him in ragged voice but sharpened mind, wry and witty here, meditative and calm there, with longtime collaborator Robinson offering typically seductive counterpoint. 'On Tour with Leonard Cohen' presents a picture of the singing poet 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Has it been brutalised in the process, or sharpened? TV review: Line of Duty; Imagine: Theatre of War; Gordon Behind Bars 2012-06-26T23:15:06Z To sharpen the institution’s identity society officials are actively considering renaming the museum after its founder, Archer Milton Huntington, heir to a vast railroad fortune and a scholar, collector and philanthropist. art: Changes at the Hispanic Society of America 2011-11-13T05:00:15Z Her interest sharpens palpably when he replies, “Nineteen hundred square feet.” “Dating Around,” Reviewed: Courtship Drama and a Delicious Tingle of Voyeurism 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The band want to play longer, the acoustic section felt too long, certain structures need changing, the mixing and electronics need sharpening. Roy Harper: 'I'm not very communicative' 2013-07-17T16:49:47Z SUN Apple tasting and sale, how to grow your own, kids' crafts, tools sharpened, apple pie, lectures, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Community calendar 2011-10-19T22:30:06Z We watched life sharpen its transitory nature on the backs of the generation before us. My generation, living on the road 2014-04-20T23:59:00Z What have you been doing to sharpen your conducting skills? Michael Feinstein is keeping the standards alive 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z My axe may be sharpened even sooner than I thought. Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt wields his axe 2010-05-25T21:01:00Z Some surgical trimming would perhaps sharpen the focus and permit the humor to, er, really flow. Theater review: With Faction of Fools’ ‘Titus,’ an audience sees red This would only sharpen the conflict in the country. Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The actor often wields a long sharpened yellow pencil as he addresses a room full of federal agents on the hit CBS show “FBI.” How Jeremy Sisto keeps the CBS drama ‘FBI’ moving briskly 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z What he excels at is shooting people, a skill he sharpened as a Marine in Afghanistan, and Fuches urges him to stay in his lane. Review: In ‘Barry,’ This Actor Slays Them, Offstage 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z The discovery of ancient Roman art probably sharpened the painter’s inclination to realism. Art: At the National Gallery, Art That Made the Leap to Real Life 2011-04-29T11:57:27Z By the time the band released their debut album, LP1, the critics had had plenty of time to sharpen their knives. Moulding music 2010-02-23T08:38:00Z It was exciting to see Bong sharpen his ideas. 'It's a hustle': Jon Ronson on how he made it into movies with the help of Okja the giant pig 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z It sharpens the thematic focus from the American South to the African American South. Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in ‘The Dirty South’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z It also sharpened his conviction to focus on the contemporary face of American elitism. Buck Ellison’s Great White Society 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z But he’s also an unrepentant Luddite, or maybe just an ancient soul — he refers to a phone as “your hand device” and lovingly, manually sharpens a long row of pencils. ‘The Consultant’ Review: Silicon Valley Goes to the Devil 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z That means you’re opening communication lines within yourself, indulging your kinesthetic instincts while sharpening your attention. Perspective | How to listen alone in a lockdown 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z The autumn 2011 season was in soft focus, easing up the silhouette, yet sharpening the surface with silvered materials. Special Report: Fashion: Illuminating Shades of Gray 2011-01-19T19:14:24Z I turned to sharpening pencils as a respite, and it pleased me to write a book with exactly zero partisan subtext. Artisinal pencil sharpening 2012-06-07T00:00:00Z They're dynamic learners, so our research team can continue feeding the model new data until it sharpens its predictive capabilities and can accurately predict the effect of each antioxidant combination. Rancid food smells and tastes gross — AI tools may help scientists prevent that spoilage 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z The show would also seem to have breathing room to sharpen its satire, given that its most vocal critic — the president of the United States — hasn’t mentioned it on Twitter since January. On ‘S.N.L.’ Premiere, Jay-Z and Michael Che Attack Trump Over Puerto Rico and Race 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z That was the litter box in which he sharpened his claws and perfected his media sorcery. Cindy Adams, Gossip’s G.O.A.T. 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z Baldwin and Hansberry “sharpen each other by having these debates,” Matthis said, “and it’s always loving, and it’s all meant to hold each other to account with so much love.” Onstage This Fall, the Enduring Friendship of Baldwin and Hansberry 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s pale yellow, cloudy, slightly fizzy, modestly sweetened, sharpened with lime and rounded with cinnamon and cloves for a nicely quenching drink. An Andean Drink With Long Island Roots 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z Cedar, Harbor’s 7-year-old brother, said that the trick is to use a stick that’s sharpened on one end — with four branch stubs sticking out — to stack and collect the boughs into a portable unit. Taking to the Woods With Maine’s ‘Tree Tippers’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z The first time I tried an apple brandy, I expected sweet cider sharpened to a boozy slap, and was annoyed to find that it tasted much like whiskey. Still sippin’ on Courvoisier? It’s time to try a brandy from closer to home. 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The best entries in these series can sharpen our perception of a familiar figure by focusing on the essentials. Alfred Hitchcock: ‘A superb fantasist of fear’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Left unclear is whether this assists the viewer in digesting the ramifications of everything that’s occurred over the last seven days, or adds to our ongoing and sharpening bout of indigestion. “The Circus” delivers “The Verdict” on how Kavanaugh fall-out could affect midterms 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z "You get a more adventurous feel from a scratch pen," he says, remembering how a woman in France sent him a feather from a vulture's wing, that he sharpened into a quill – "rather splendid". Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z “He had an optimistic theory,” Ms. Dajani said, “that Ives sharpened his pencil and went back to working on the Fourth Symphony.” Ives’s Study Resurrected, Inch by Inch 2014-03-05T22:36:25Z Most members of the ring are from relatively privileged backgrounds themselves, and their proximity to their victims sharpens both their envy and their sense of entitlement. The Luxe Life in ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Bling Ring’ and Other Films 2013-05-16T12:00:01Z Also sharpen your pruners and keep them rust-free with a regular squirt of oil. The vital gardening practice you might be forgetting 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z After entering the world of Hollywood at 15, she retreated to her native Philadelphia with a sharpened acting goal: theater in New York City. Sarah Steele of 'The Country House' finds comfort in her characters 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z But Kruger has kept up with it, turning to different modes of presentation and media, refining her messages, sharpening her wit. Review | Artist Barbara Kruger is still right about everything. Let’s listen up. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Alas, the combination of 24-hour rolling news and a country teetering on the brink of horrendous hardship may well sharpen our teeth. Debate: Is the royal wedding a cause for celebration? 2010-11-21T00:07:00Z “So it was natural,” he added, “to be in that conversation with her, and when Covid hit, that situation sharpened.” Gavin Brown Closes His Gallery and Joins Forces With Barbara Gladstone 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z The rule of thumb is to always start sharpening your knife on the coarse side and then moving to the refined side to finish. The very best way to sharpen your knives 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z Her writing style sharpened in three later plays developed in Seattle, with Rep director Daniel Sullivan. Author brings Wendy Wasserstein's complexities, gifts to light 2011-08-24T22:32:03Z At her best, programmed beats, distorted guitars and synthetic instruments only sharpen the twang in her voice and the brashness of her attitude. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z After this experience, he could have had no illusions about the ruthlessness of the Nazis, and his suffering seems to have sharpened his already intense hatred of his tormentors and his desire to escape them. The Real Great Escape by Guy Walters – review 2012-05-23T13:40:01Z Lemonade sharpened with ginger and breezy with mint is refreshing. Taim brings falafel nirvana from New York to Georgetown 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Since that book appeared, the focus on planetary survival has sharpened dramatically. In Maya Lin’s ‘Ghost Forest,’ the Trees Are Talking Back 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z An exploratory sojourn in New York followed in 1962; chastened by the big city, she returned to Detroit to sharpen her performance skills in local clubs and coffeehouses. Lily Tomlin has led a singular comedic life. And that’s the truth. I was thirty-two when Jack was born, so he turned seven when I hit forty and, as with most people, his memories sharpen right around then. Confessions of a crybaby 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z But, as the two girls’ invective sharpens, the dialogue cuts out and is replaced by the blare of music. “Booksmart,” Reviewed: Olivia Wilde’s Toothless Teen Comedy 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z To make a film that comes at you through a haze of nostalgia, only to sharpens its focus to confront big themes. 'Everyone said: Don't ruin my childhood': director Marielle Heller on how her Mr Rogers film finally got made 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Climate change sharpens every threat by altering weather patterns, extending droughts, strengthening storms. Butterflies were symbols of rebirth. Then they started disappearing. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Even though there is no mention of roses, you know where you are with Calvi – tilting at perdition, red lipstick sharpened. Mercury prize shortlist 2011: what Guardian and Observer critics said 2011-07-19T13:07:52Z Once, when someone in Paris gave them a price for a dress, they said, “Now you go back and sharpen your pencil, and give us another price.” What It Was Like to Be Photographed by Bill Cunningham 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z In other words — and in this and “The Originalist,” Strand sharpens your ear for other words — we’ve always been a mess of base impulses and better angels. Review | John Strand’s political comedy ‘Lincolnesque’ returns to Keegan Theatre 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The musicians’ real triumph was sharpening the focus on Van Etten’s vocals. Sharon Van Etten delivers a stately performance at the 9:30 Club Lots of people have examined the sharpening of partisanship in parallel with the coarsening of culture, a reaction to the "wokeness" that in previous eras was called political correctness. "Last Man Standing" bids farewell, while Tim Allen keeps on truckin' with his right-wing shade 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z In Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen, sung by Sarah Connolly with her usual care and attention to detail, the lean textures seemed to sharpen the irony and the anguish of the songs. OAE/Jurowski ? review 2011-01-24T18:19:46Z Zora Neale Hurston’s best-known sentence, judging by its appearance on coffee mugs and refrigerator magnets, is this one: “No, I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” In Zora Neale Hurston’s Essays, the Nonfiction of a Nonconformist 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Ossorio used the wax-resist technique, often drawing with sharpened candles over one layer of watercolor and under another, which made the figures look spectral and otherworldly. Art Review: Alfonso Ossorio, Who Knew Both Pollock and Dubuffet 2013-08-01T22:28:40Z A much smaller number sharpen the history they share with the audience and use it as a new tool, and sometimes as a weapon. Dave Chappelle and Louis C.K. Confront a Changing World 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z This sestet is sharpened by Robert's characteristic division of the six lines into two separate triplets, a structure favoured by Philip Sidney in Astrophil and Stella. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. . . . I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” Terry McMillan remembers the book that spoke to her one summer 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Even the elision of "on a" to "one" in the first line sharpens our sense of the bird's singularity and special-ness. Poem of the week: Bird on a Briar by Anonymous 2013-03-25T10:53:30Z It has sharpened my longing for you & our sweet & peaceful home. Liveright to Publish Nelson Mandela’s Letters From Prison 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Tyler Angle, though his tap technique needs sharpening, brings true charm to the Hoofer. Dance Review: Ballet Meets Broadway Choreographers and Composers 2011-05-26T21:20:50Z A geometric pattern of a shell sharpened as I descended to the floor, and I fanned my fingers across its ridges. In Turkey, Adventure Travel Takes the Plunge 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z You know how the loss of one sense supposedly sharpens the others? My Ears Have Been Opened by the Audio Play Explosion 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z At first, their competitiveness focuses on the annual tennis championship, but it sharpens with the arrival of handsome Gil Burke. Mindfulness, captured beautifully in the children’s book, ‘Now’ 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Scriptwriters are presumably already eagerly sharpening their pencils for Trump: The Movie. Rom-coms, hatchet jobs and Hot Shots: how movies bid presidents goodbye 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z The tattoos are inked by Buddhist monks using sharpened bamboo sticks or long metal needles. Tattooed devotees transform in Thai temple trance 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z She isn’t allowed to use the pencil sharpener, so asks a correctional officer to sharpen her pencils. Anna Sorokin Talks About Making Art 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Musicals en route to New York receive an enormous amount of tinkering, polishing and sharpening. 'Come From Away,' 'Amélie' and the long, bumpy road from West Coast to Broadway 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z This follow-up sharpens the band’s focus, with a program of mostly original music in a swinging postbop mode. Albums From Gaslight Anthem and Swallow/Talmor/Nussbaum 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Ultimately, adding biometric data to an advertiser’s arsenal sharpens its ability to deliver messages. Ads that know how fast your heart is beating 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Perhaps poetry sharpens the tongues of characters in amazing ways, and at times achieves rather experimental dimensions, shattering conventional dialogue, plot and structure. Five Poets That Yusef Komunyakaa Returns to Again and Again 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z In many ways this premiere aims to cut like a freshly sharpened blade but instead bludgeons like a baseball bat. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Series Premiere Recap: Welcome to Gilead 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z With each episode, Sud and her writers demonstrate a sharpened skill for pace and revelation, along with gracefully subtle ruminations on corruption, racial profiling and — more profoundly — the very nature of morality. Review | It’s hard to stop watching ‘Seven Seconds’ — and that’s still the surest sign of a good TV show 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Using a freshly sharpened knife, lop off tops and tails, slip off skins. Go big with a standing rib roast for Christmas dinner 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z I love Luciana's final words about how she's sharpened her knives and is ready to remove her earrings and start chopping in "Last Chance Kitchen." The fourth episode of "Top Chef: World All Stars" is all about Victoire 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Does visibly steaming-hot food sharpen your sense of expectation and appetite? Why piping-hot food leaves me cold 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z And as he has sharpened and intensified the Ford Foundation’s focus on inequality, he has kept the arts central to that mission. Perspective | A voice for the arts, and social justice, joins the National Gallery of Art board 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z As he stretched his philosophy muscles, he sharpened his political weapons. What does Josh Hawley think he’s doing? 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z Sometimes a change in genres afforded the opportunity to intensify or sharpen salient aspects of the original. A Director?s Toughest Competition 2011-03-11T05:40:21Z Her voice sharpened into focus as she propelled the aria with biting sound and fleet runs. Review: Handel’s ‘Serse,’ With Yuks and Exquisite Playing 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z By committing to the art, the performance scene’s political radar has been sharpening for years. Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Doctors at the meeting shared sobering statistics and personal stories in urging the AMA to sharpen its focus on obesity prevention. AMA wants obesity education 2012-06-21T13:46:00Z So if the sameness of today’s “bro-country” rings foul in our ears, perhaps we should sharpen our listening and wait for tomorrow. Still think today’s country music sounds fake? Get real. 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z NBC is going to throw me and Jay in a pit with sharpened sticks. 2010-01-09T16:46:00Z It can be forged and sharpened into a weapon. Perspective | A song doesn’t have to scream U!S!A! to be patriotic. Just ask the NFL. 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z And again, these traits are only sharpened in performance. Music: New Concert DVDs From Beyonc? and Adele 2011-11-27T05:03:07Z Her recommendation is to commit to taking proper care of your knives, but to start by setting yourself up for less sharpening. The controversial kitchen tool that's become my staple 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z For Lewis, a Christian, the loss is sharpened by its disruption of his faith. The holidays are a lonely time for those who have loved and lost. These books can help. 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z The previous week spent vacationing with my girlfriend’s family sharpened into focus our incompatibility, and this episode merely sealed the deal. The tears of men: a crusade to have the sight of male crying be accepted, once and for all 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z High carbon holds its edge better and is easier to sharpen, so I’d like that one, please. Gifts for the gardener 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z “Pike and dill” translates into winey, pan-fried fish sharpened with horseradish and rich with stripes of pike mousseline, roe-bejeweled sour cream and a shimmering sauce of dill and lovage. Helsinki’s food scene, coming on strong I caught up with him over e-mail while he was in the middle of a marathon sharpening session. Artisinal pencil sharpening 2012-06-07T00:00:00Z It's a consummately erudite record, full of gnarled songs of doubt and redemption, and tonight Oberst and his long-serving band lend this fertile material a sharpened, visceral edge. Bright Eyes ? review 2011-02-15T19:20:00Z However, when the show itself finally returned in October it became apparent that downtime had not refreshed or sharpened David's humor but aged it, and not like a wine or cheese. Emmy nods for Larry David and “Curb Your Enthusiasm”? But…why? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Itin, fascinated by the Taubman approach, studied its principles, and his “confidence level grew immeasurably,” as did “a feeling of freedom and a sharpened sense of creativity.” Critic’s Notebook: Golandsky Institute Helps Musicians Avoid Pain 2012-07-19T21:52:06Z The account was written at a time when the threat of a European war created an uncertainty and deep suspicion of change that sharpened the longing for the British countryside. Summer voyages: In Pursuit of Spring by Edward Thomas 2013-07-25T17:07:19Z Depictions of normal life aren’t intended to heighten the effect of the fantastic or supernatural; instead, the unreal is used to sharpen readers’ view of what’s true. For Latin American Women, Horror and Fantasy Capture Everyday Struggle 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Proponents, including James Cameron, say higher frame rates provide more lifelike images, sharpen 3-D effects, and lessen or eliminate a flickering effect known as "strobing" that comes with camera motion. Review: 'The Hobbit' suffers from story bloat 2012-12-04T23:46:08Z Gigi, in the guise of “High School Musical” star Vanessa Hudgens, has more backbone, and a sharpened awareness of the limits imposed on women of the period. Kennedy Center’s Broadway-bound ‘Gigi,’ starring Vanessa Hudgens, affirms its undistinguished status 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z As the fourth season of “Superstore” continues, the writing that drives the drudgery at Cloud 9, the big box Walmart stand-in where the series is set, has only sharpened. Smart Watch: Salon's guide to TV this week 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z It highlighted how ill-equipped Haiti was to deal with a public health emergency, and sharpened her resolve. 'We have a shower for pain relief': can Haiti's young midwives save a new generation? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Mixing such urgent media with indulgent platitudes only sharpens the level of cognitive dissonance we're collectively experiencing as we witness these escalating hostilities from afar. Dear Hollywood: In times of international crisis, speechlessness is always preferable to stupidity 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z JK had better sharpen her quill because it’s all pointing to one thing: sequels. Daniel Radcliffe: is it safe to speak of the curse of Harry Potter? 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Then he told the horns to play back their parts, this time with the syncopation sharpened up. For Etienne Charles, Jazz and Caribbean Music Are One and the Same 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z In Vance’s view, the depredations of globalization have been sharpened by poorly implemented social programs, which, though well-intentioned, allow “a large minority . . . to live off the dole,” while breeding resentment and rage among everyone else. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Tightening the script and sharpening the humor are among the priorities. Woolly Mammoth Theatre hopes it has the next big Broadway musical in ‘A Strange Loop’ 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Enclave opinion, which builds confidence in one’s views, allows general thoughts to sharpen and intensify. The Failure of Facebook Democracy 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Within illustration, I see a movement of illustrators who are working at scale, perhaps as a response to this sharpened presentation of street art. Spray-paint revolution: 'OutsideIn' street art exhibition opens at Art Center in Pasadena 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z She turns everything over restlessly: In her prose, poignant reminiscences sharpen into bitter ironies, or laments reveal flashes of comedy, determination, defiance. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z In addition to geodes, they amassed fossils of trilobites, ferns and fishes, as well as an authentic poison blow gun from the Amazon that includes a piranha jaw to sharpen the darts. You May Be Surprised to Hear That Restoration Hardware Is Doing Great 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Even so, the opening of this 70-minute play could use sharpening. A Puppet Theater Response to Ionesco in ‘The Chairs’ 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The stark black-and-white cinematography deepens the film's shadows and unease, but it also throws these grizzled faces into relief, sharpening their cheekbones and revealing the death’s head under each man’s grimace. ‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Dark Nights, Troubled Souls, Hairy Men 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z His brawn, no less than his witty, not-too-winky performance, sharpens the musical’s idea that liberation from gender conformity benefits everyone. Which Show Is Good, Clean Fun: ‘Rocky Horror’ or ‘The Music Man’? 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z The sharpening of Charleston’s food is driven by Ms. Wolf’s perfectionism and her love for Michelin-starred restaurants in France. She Built a Baltimore Restaurant Empire, but Still Works the Stove 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z The WE network appeals chiefly to women, and with Oprah Winfrey's new OWN network going on the air last weekend, it is looking to sharpen its focus for viewers. Toni Braxton's family in new WE reality series 2011-01-03T19:07:08Z You sharpen and sharpen and it looks pristine, and then it breaks off, in an endless cycle. Get the lead out: Pencils are garbage 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z If you have a very nice knife, sharpen it with a whetstone like this. The very best way to sharpen your knives 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z Privilege seems to create an impermeable protective shell around some people; for others it sharpens their alertness to inequality. Poem of the Week: The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 2012-06-04T10:42:44Z Her production also sharpens the show's contrast between two different kinds of marriage in a 1915 New England fishing village. Carousel – review 2012-08-21T12:27:35Z I quickly took the plunge, and put every knife that needed sharpening right through the process. The controversial kitchen tool that's become my staple 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z On alto saxophone, his main instrument, he has an attractively mellow sound, rooted in soul and gospel and sharpened with just a hint of metallic tang. Gerald Albright and Karen Mantler Release Albums 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z For the new version, Paramount also has remastered the original film, sharpening the picture and colors, putting the audio into surround sound and even putting "pop-up" graphics such as hearts and kisses on screen. "Grease" gets slick with sing-a-long version 2010-06-17T00:19:00Z And in the second act, when the material gets heavier, Leon thickens the texture instead of sharpening it. Review: In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The young Doig frequently accompanied his ranch-hand father to saloons that served as hiring halls — and no doubt sharpened his interest in character and dialogue along the way. Ivan Doig's story of a bright boy, a Montana bar and a buried past 2012-08-23T18:49:03Z Whenever a Hollywood celebrity publishes a novel, listen closely: You’ll hear book critics everywhere sharpening their knives. David Duchovny’s first novel is a witty, madcap fable starring troubled cow, a Jewish pig and a suave turkey 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z What’s left are survivors — men and women who have been sharpened into efficient escapists and confident killers. The Walking Dead Watch: Still 2014-03-03T15:30:58Z "I keep a pencil sharpened at both ends," he wrote in his notebook; and the same shrewd insight holds for the artist moving between art-forms and genres. Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z The migration of personal data to massive cloud companies has sharpened spammers’ focus, leading them to double down on phishing and ransom. Is Spam Trying to Tell Us Something? 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z I withdrew from inquiry about his health, diving into my studies and sharpening my ambitions. Our last Thanksgiving 2012-11-23T01:00:00Z Your memory and ability to do everything that you need to do is sharpened, because you're not a child just playing in the dirt. Drew Barrymore: Don't mention the c-word 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z Stephen Holden’s Times review noted that particular choice “sharpens this remake’s sour tang of exploitation.” For the Love (and the Hate) of the Horror Remake 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z The know-how is an unstructured, nonspecific sort of clairvoyance, a sharpened awareness that's more country mystic than fantasy. Lori Roy's skills impress in 'Let Me Die in His Footsteps' 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The title — taken from a 1960 poem by her close friend Barbara Guest — sharpens the idea that Frankenthaler altered painting’s gender balance irrevocably, and to an extent that we are only beginning to appreciate. Review: ‘Pretty Raw’ Recounts Helen Frankenthaler’s Influence on the Art World 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z “I’d been keeping my compositional tools sharpened on the road because you have to keep those muscles ready,” Ms. Garcia said. Nubya Garcia, Tapping Into the Past to Make Jazz for a New Generation 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z The picture on my ancient Sony sharpened into splotches of red, yellow, and orange on a deep-blue background, like fire sitting on water. How many times had I wished my father dead? This time, it was different 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Caulfield takes a sharpened pencil and dutifully traces and copies 1960s furniture, a Sunday supplement style for living that now looks quaint and retro. White Cube drawing show: The thin grey line 2010-07-20T20:31:00Z It’s a decent joke about women’s bodies and clothing, sharpened by Satie’s “Gnossienne No. 1.” Dance Review: Luciana Achugar’s Latest Dance at Abrons Arts Center 2012-05-22T22:02:20Z Speaking personally, I found it hard to stay focused after one hour; beyond the third, perception sharpened dramatically. Music Review: Ne(x)tworks Quartet Plays Feldman?s Six-Hour Work 2010-04-12T22:43:00Z "I read Borges for his extraordinary ability at verbal artifice; he's a man who teaches you how to write ... to sharpen your instrument for saying things." A brief survey of the short story part 27: Jorge Luis Borges 2010-07-22T10:59:00Z The poems collected in “A Fire in My Head” exhibit a decidedly sharpened political edge, too. It Took Nearly 30 Years. Is America Ready for Ben Okri Now? 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z In particular, the question of who owns identity — who has a right to depict whom, and how — has sharpened in the past few years. The Wild, Anti-Authoritarian Art of Peter Saul 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Before becoming a Disney star, he had sharpened his filming and editing chops on the now-defunct video platform Vine when he was still a high school wrestler in Westlake, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. Jake Paul, a Reality Villain for the YouTube Generation 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Their cost is roughly equivalent to the amount I spend every three years on sharpening them. The controversial kitchen tool that's become my staple 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z When he smiled, his long bearded face seemed to harden and sharpen; then he intensely smoothed down the corners of his mustache. Music Review: Diego el Cigala at Town Hall - Review 2011-11-03T00:01:26Z The experiences in Detroit sharpened her identity as an artist who mostly depicts herself and her many traumas. Rivals and accomplices 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Metalpoint is the technique of drawing on a gessoed surface with a sharpened metal stylus to produce a glistening, fine line. Metalpoint Drawings by Both Old Masters and Contemporary Artists Are on View at the National Gallery of Art 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z I don't have a nib at the end of it, it's just the, you know, a sharpened feather at the end, that's all it is, not even the metal bit. Five actors on faking confidence, the Batsuit and tea breaks 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Blunt, austere percussion — from a booming Japanese taiko drum to the metallic scrape of a knife being sharpened — is layered with neo-medieval wind consorts, modernist dissonances, Minimalist vibraphone patterns and isolated electronics. Playlist: Roots Rock and the Funk of the Firmament 2010-02-19T21:40:00Z It engaged and interpreted his work, sharpened its focus, while applying distinctive aesthetic flourishes. Chris Rock Re-edits a Special, and the Result Is Fascinating 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z It was their conversation, often carried on when they were caught between different cities, which sharpened his interest in "absent physical presence". Artist of the week 92: Raphael Danke 2010-06-17T16:08:00Z For me, these works sharpen the meaning of one of my favorite James Baldwin quotes: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z For Anderson, I suspect, that's an unacceptable compromise that dulls the story's power rather than sharpening it. Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Kung fu, he explains, translates into something like “the daily sharpening of your blades.” Dance Review: Cabula6’s ‘Angola Project’ at Dance New Amsterdam 2012-11-14T22:26:41Z This latest go-round, directed by Iqbal Khan, is the best yet, sharpening the focus on an admittedly difficult, even contentious work. Theater Review: In the City of Second Chances 2010-10-19T11:34:00Z He simplifies what he sees, eliminating tonal shifts, flattening space, sharpening contours and exaggerating contrasts. The stomach-churning, visceral power of Chris Finley's weightlifter portraits 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Meyers' "Late Show" is an extension of his experience hosting "Weekend Update," but it's fair to say that its harder edge was sharpened on the "Daily Show" whetstone. Why women really don’t get to host late-night TV 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Keleketla!’s tracks rely on Coldcut’s fundamental skills as D.J.s and producers: layering multifarious sources to find and sharpen a groove. Coldcut + Tony Allen and African Artists = Studio Electricity 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z The other two photographers we meet are accomplished, but the film needs streamlining and sharpening, and the same goes for the more generic interview bits. Review: ‘Frame by Frame’ Looks at Four Intrepid Afghan Photojournalists 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Sam cuts her hair down to her scalp, sheds pounds to sharpen her elbows and cheeks, and carries at first a carrot and later a long stone between her legs. Review | C Pam Zhang’s ‘How Much of These Hills Is Gold’ brilliantly reimagines the cowboy narrative 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z “They sharpen themselves on each other,” Perry writes of Cora and Ransome, “each by turn is blade and whetstone.” A Spirited Widow and a Monstrous Serpent Propel a Lush Novel 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z She also found another way of giving back: On Monday and Tuesday nights, her kitchen becomes the equivalent of an improv stage for budding cooks who want to sharpen their game. Skelly and the Bean: creativity from construction to the kitchen 2012-06-14T20:42:09Z Fear sharpens when “white men drive by in they slow cars.” Review: ‘Revolution,’ by Deborah Wiles, reveals personal side of Freedom Summer But do them a favor: Replace or sharpen the mower blade first, so the tender seedlings are cut cleanly with minimal trauma or uprooting. It’s lawn-fixing season. Here’s how to do it. 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z A moral urgency is compelling a sharpening of activism tactics, to satisfy the political dictum “never again.” ‘This is not a normal time’: A mad hot summer in the capital of the resistance 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Local trade and craft guilds, from lumbermen to haberdashers, marked territory and sharpened rivalries. Art Review: ‘Illuminating Faith’ at the Morgan: Images of the Eucharist 2013-07-04T20:22:28Z In “Stone and Knife” she writes: One angle blunts, another sharpens. Books of The Times: Poetry by Kathleen Ossip, Tracy K. Smith and Others - Review 2011-08-29T22:59:51Z “A lot of them couldn’t get in or afford to see it. And it helped them sharpen their performances.” The ‘Hamilton’ Spoof ‘Spamilton’ Is on the Move 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Rosin writes cleanly and with nuance and style, making this book likely both to get a lot of attention and to sharpen our understanding. Is The Atlantic making us stupid? 2012-09-10T16:26:00Z As Diamond sharpens his live persona in Act II, David Rockwell’s set, until then dominated by hanging lamps, morphs into a “Hollywood Squares”-like concert stage that incorporates the orchestra. Review: ‘A Beautiful Noise’ Makes for a Morose Neil Diamond Musical 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z To this end, the Modernist imperative of less is more has been both sharpened and broadened. Art Review: Thinking Green ? Design Triennial at Cooper-Hewitt 2010-05-13T21:45:00Z Rereading isn’t so much about examining a younger self or an older self; it’s about locating sensibility, that thing that’s refined and honed and modified and sharpened over a lifetime. Perspective | Meg Wolitzer on rereading — and avoiding — her past work 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Tuna salad sharpened with red onion is pleasing. Review | With Capo Italian Deli in Shaw, owners aim to create delicious deja vu 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z "As if I was a pencil and havoc sharpened me," scoffs its speaker, "havoc is committed to care for the elderly, education for all, and narrowing the gap between rich and fabulously rich." The Havocs by Jacob Polley – review 2013-01-04T21:55:01Z Few took his more combative books and essays altogether seriously, though they sharpened the conversation. Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Kingdom of Speech’ Takes Aim at Darwin and Chomsky 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Fairey has called Van Hamersveld's original poster "a perfect image" and "my favorite poster of all time ... an epiphany that sharpened my focus as an artist." An 'Endless Summer' for artist John Van Hamersveld 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z At the same time, Smith was steering her theater toward a political identity that has sharpened dramatically over the past few seasons. Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Thick with fog and luminescent with moonlight, they reveal themselves slowly, after the eyes adjust, like the sharpening of night vision. A river runs through it 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z She captures the duality of a character whose wits are sharpened by passion yet who, when briefly abandoned by her beloved Orlando, gazes after him with the bereft sadness of a stricken doe. As You Like It – review 2013-04-25T17:02:13Z Gyllenhaal’s soft, moonish features, capable of collapsing into melancholy or hardening and sharpening in resolve, have rarely been less predictably used. The Kindergarten Teacher: is this Maggie Gyllenhaal's finest performance to date? 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z He was extensively featured as both a soloist and the straight man for Gillespie’s between-songs banter, sharpening his musical and comedic skills at the same time. James Moody, Jazz Saxophonist, Dies at 85 2010-12-10T19:00:00Z The verb you want is whet, meaning sharpen. 11 commonly misheard phrases that actually make sense 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Dame Agatha Christie, who barely paused between books to sharpen pencils during her near-50-year marathon mystery career, is another such marvel. Review | What is left to say about a new John Grisham novel? ‘The Guardians’ has something to add. 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Skate sharpening is available to enhance your spins. Bellevue’s Magic Season: toy soldiers, skating, garden lights 2012-11-29T01:05:17Z In a way, this condition has sharpened my appreciation of the world. Experience: I have lived in the dark for a decade 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z But Gluck’s highest artistic achievements came when he turned to Paris, where he revitalized French lyric tragedy through an infusion of Italian-style music and by virtue of his own sharpened theatrical acumen. Review: Iphigenia Travels From Aulis to Tauris (and Back Again) on Brussels Stage 2009-12-16T07:25:00Z Once Mr. Nolan begins switching between day and night, the lines dividing the three narrative segments mostly sharpen. Review: ‘Dunkirk’ Is a Tour de Force War Movie, Both Sweeping and Intimate 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Olvera doesn’t use heat and spice as weapons; he uses them like a pen, to sharpen and define the outlines of a dish. Restaurant Review: Cosme in the Flatiron District 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Muybridge's long exposures make waterfalls or surging creeks look like sharpened wedges or blunt-ended mallets, weapons that enforce geological flux. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z These slapstick interludes go on for too long; their timing still needs to be sharpened. Review: In ‘Sisters’ Follies,’ Basil Twist Conjures Two Avant-Garde 1915 Benefactors 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The dark humor in that line sharpens when read in concert with “Whistleblower,” in which Fowler describes supplementing her rigorous graduate courses at Penn with hours of research on string theory and theoretical particle physics. Review | ‘Whistleblower’ and ‘Uncanny Valley’ offer a chilling look at life in Silicon Valley 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z The program uses the lyrics as a vehicle to teach grammar and vocabulary words and phrases, as well as sharpen listening and comprehension skills. During self-quarantine, learn a foreign language without leaving the house 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z His did this more skillfully after the audience uprising, which seemed to shake and sharpen him. Mike Daisey on Shakespeare and His Own Failings 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Every project I do, I feel I’m sharpening my tool, that I’m still changing it. Ashton Sanders: ‘Black artists still have to work 10 times harder’ 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Kauffmann abbreviated the title and edited the text thoroughly—sharpening the quick cuts, juxtapositions, non sequiturs, and sudden shifts of topic and tonal register that give Binx’s narration, and the novel, its distinctive style. We Still Live Within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer” 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z And in some peculiar way the making of those more fanciful films may have sharpened his sense of the importance of visual precision, his highly developed taste for l’image juste. Film: He?s Fought His Own Way Back to Work 2011-01-09T02:13:01Z The Transamerica tower rises like a pencil sharpened for the first day of school. Credit where it's due: Why Gin Wong never quite became one of L.A. architecture's household names 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z “Knowing someone in particular is in the audience will sharpen your performance,” Ms. Murphy said. Rosemary Murphy, 89, Emmy Winner, Dies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z "We sharpened up the plot," he told an interviewer. Lost in translation: why have we declared war on foreign dramatists? 2010-09-01T11:32:00Z “Are you using this moment to sharpen your blade?” he asks. Dance Review: Cabula6’s ‘Angola Project’ at Dance New Amsterdam 2012-11-14T22:26:41Z Twitter reacted by chasing down the idea and stabbing it with sharpened sticks. Perspective | No, dudes, we don’t need your all-girl version of ‘Lord of the Flies’ 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z "Without doubt, it is a very good thing to have the world heritage status and I'm sure it's helpful in sharpening the city's image," he said. Unesco meets to discuss Liverpool's world heritage status 2012-06-20T13:54:39Z Still, I imagined her with moments to contemplate her world and sharpen a sense of her place in it. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Our first day of training involved sharpening pencils with a U.S. government–issued pocket sharpener. Artisinal pencil sharpening 2012-06-07T00:00:00Z But alone, he becomes all too visible and thus carries a sharpened rail spike. In This Debut Novel, a Chinese American Assassin Roams the West 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z He does wonders with his eyes — squinting as if shying away from the light one minute, wide-eyed with wonder the next, never really focusing but always sharpening our focus on his disoriented mind. Broadway Mind Games: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z In a complicated, unfolding way, Mr. Ligon is asking it by broadening the possibility of response rather than sharpening it. Glenn Ligon Rethinks the Color Line in the Show ‘Blue Black’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Its satirical intentions are similar to those of “Logorama,” last year’s winner in this category, but “Let’s Pollute” never moves beyond simple sarcasm, which amplifies its message but hardly sharpens it. | 'The Oscar Nominated Short Films': An Oscar Film Festival, All in One Screening 2011-02-10T22:55:01Z However, as the Enlightenment went on in subsequent centuries, categorization of the races became a central taxonomic venture, and this in due course had its effect in sharpening racial attitudes. What is “white supremacy”? A brief history of a term, and a movement, that continues to haunt America 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z “It immediately sharpened my sense of the ache, because I realized there were people right at that moment waiting to hear if their loved ones were going to come home,” she said. Mining Deaths Sharpen ?The Burnt Part Boys? 2010-05-22T06:47:00Z This possibility sharpens the question, already raised by the paintings themselves, of whether Mr. Janas intends his pastiches as spoofs of known styles. Art in Review: Piotr Janas: ‘Minotaurs’ 2013-08-15T21:33:04Z As Coates grew older, attending high school and later Howard University — his personal “Mecca” — the questions sharpened and evolved. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’ 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z In the Imereti region of Georgia, its crisp young shoots are gathered in spring, before their thorns sharpen, when they’re as skinny and fragile as first asparagus, and pickled to last. Georgian Rarities, Served Without Fanfare, at Chama Mama 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z In the verde, a perky green salsa coating shredded chicken sharpens the lushness of the dough. Masa and Meats, on a Mission at City Tamale in the Bronx 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z “Ballad of a Thin Man” sharpened its mockery with something Mr. Dylan rarely uses, an obvious electronic effect: an echo repeating his vocal lines. Music Review: A Jovial Dylan Celebrates Reopening of Capitol Theatre 2012-09-05T11:35:10Z The fidelity sharpens the parody, but it also amounts to a sort of cinema fantasy camp that allows the filmmakers to wallow in classic styles. From Will Ferrell to Stuffed Squirrels: 6 Steps to the Perfect TV Spoof 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z She devotes many pages to singing the praises of taste and smell, which philosophers throughout the ages have considered the baser senses, and shows how just about any of us can sharpen them. ‘Cork Dork’ Sniffs, Swills and Spits Through the World of Wine Experts 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Despite the glimpse of familiarity, Gardiner’s view of this Passion, the one that best suits his operatic flair for drama, has sharpened in the 35 years since his first take. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z “Shylock is a villain. He’s insisting on a pound of flesh. He’s sharpening his knife.” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Presides Over Shylock’s Appeal 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Shining shoes, sharpening pencils, fiddling a tax return – any activity that bypasses the brain, soothes the savage breast. Kitchen gadgets review: Kogel Mogel whisk – I’m 42% happier with it in my life | Rhik Samadder 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z He often says things like, "I flung myself on the sharpened rocks of my own self-hatred." 'Harmontown' shows Dan Harmon, in all his self-loathing and self-worship 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z It was as if someone took the Berkshires, sharpened the mountains, elongated the pines, airbrushed the trails and tweaked the color of the lakes to a suspicious shade of turquoise. Glacier National Park, Through Foreign Eyes 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z But the strapping Scot gets to sharpen a scythe and sing a ditty called My Pretty Irish Girl in this regrettable leprechaun-themed romcom, which presents a rose-tinted and red-cheeked vision of life in rural Ireland. James Bond and the Leprechauns: the weird world of Disney+ 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Ruta’s beet salad is an edible landscape, and his gnocchi, sharpened with blue cheese and crisp with pear and toasted hazelnuts, is best of show in Washington. Review | Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat right now 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z That morsel of context sharpened the song’s lyrics, exposing his somnolent arrangement as a deadly lure. Music Review: Tangled in a Dreamscape With Friends in Tow 2010-09-23T21:21:00Z I was literally sharpening a pencil," Syson says, "and his agent sent him in. 'Next!': the secretive world of casting directors 2013-05-21T18:30:01Z But another part of you is sharpening the guillotines. ‘Billions’: Brian Koppelman and David Levien on Money, Power and American Gods 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z But our over-entertained eyeballs have more options, and the channel’s competitors, Miller makes clear, have the long knives sharpened. ‘Tinderbox,’ an Oral History of HBO From Modest Beginnings to TV Revolution 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Cain said that the incessant media focus on the allegations helped sharpen his memory of events that occurred more than a decade ago. Herman Cain accuser wants to break silence 2011-11-02T08:00:00Z But it also sharpened her skills in challenging authority – and, to the discomfort of some teachers, the exceptionally bright Crenshaw represented the school in debating and spelling competitions. Kimberlé Crenshaw: the woman who revolutionised feminism – and landed at the heart of the culture wars 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z And while Didion’s estrangement sharpens her reportorial eye, it can curdle, at times, into condescension. Past, Present and Future Collide in Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z His most consistent to date, it sharpens and deepens his sound. Kurt Vile, Indie Rock’s Charming Riddle 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z His death and the two-year pandemic delay deepened the meaning of the production, its creators said, even as it sharpened the jokes. Sarah Silverman’s Family Show (Really!) About Divorce and Depression 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Her face and body language sharpen and stiffen as Kaylee’s armor locks on, softens when her misery briefly loosens. In ‘Gruesome,’ love and dysfunction meet 2013-07-30T16:49:12Z He sharpened his satirical ax as a young man working as a teacher and social worker in South Africa. Comic novelist Tom Sharpe dies at 85 2013-06-06T18:01:04Z Spinach and cheese plumped the large, soft pillows of dough smothered in a porcini mushroom cream sauce thick with Italian sausage and sharpened with pecorino. The pleasures of pasta at cozy Corretto 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z I watched secretaries in high heels teeter home through the sharpened dusk and giggling schoolgirls trying out their French on captive tourists on the boat. Istanbul: minarets and martinis 2011-02-27T00:05:21Z The video is remarkably lifelike, although the model’s features were somewhat sharpened, and the clothes — at least in prototype versions — are incredibly detailed. Front Row: For Fashion Week, Designers Start to See in 3-D 2011-08-31T21:33:23Z They choose the music and sharpen their chops in state-of-the-art digital studios. Student-run KNHC-FM 89.5 is turning 40, but still dancing on air 2011-02-05T01:46:51Z The sign said Yury’s Lights and Beyond — the Beyond part being a reference to the knife sharpening work that Yury does on the side. Wife/Mother/Worker/Spy: With G.P.S., Life?s Journeys Have Become a Little Less Mysterious 2010-03-15T22:58:00Z Accustomed to doing all the talking in public appearances, she made a point of sharpening her listening skills. Kelly Clarkson has defied expectations before. Can she break the daytime talk show curse? 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Shiga scatters panels loosely across each page, letting empty space sharpen the timing and staging of his gory farce. New Graphic Novels Detail Personal Journeys and Twists of Fate 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z And I recognized why I was feeling that way last year: I was just sharpening my sword for the fight ahead. U.S. education secretary: ‘We have to muster whatever political will we can to hit the reset button on those things we know didn’t work’ 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Some are light, clear and sweet, some sharpened with green tomatoes or lime leaves and redolent of galangal and Thai basil, others thickened with coconut milk and flavored with kroeung. In Siem Reap, Cambodia, Local Fare Gets a Chance to Shine 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z “There was the one who traveled around sharpening barbers’ razors and scissors and prided himself on keeping the kitchen knives sharp,” Ford writes. Cherokee Women Aim for a Better Life in ‘Crooked Hallelujah’ 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Was there a particular segment of the film that was especially challenging or is the real labor this sharpening throughout that you’re describing? James Horner on creating a 'sound world' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z It sharpens the edge in a passive butter lettuce salad and, McLagan notes, anchors the richness of a beef stew. What’s wrong with the celery you’re buying 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z George Eliot is a hell of a writer and I’m a big fan of the way liberal arts help us sharpen our philosophies. Kyle Pruett on Fatherhood 2012-07-23T11:00:00Z On "Get Out on Your Own," Lakim snips sharpened Sade tidbits and spreads them out in geometric patterns, working four-on-the-floor stomp, jumpy British and American R&B and U.K. garage. Essential tracks: Sufjan Stevens' 'Carrie & Lowell' hits a personal chord 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z Trivial thoughts mingle with important ones, memories sharpen, ideas and insights drift to the surface. One step ahead: how walking opens new horizons 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z President Donald Trump vows a sharpened crackdown on America's illegal immigrants. 'I need to be safe' - Crossing into Canada from the U.S. 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z I felt that topical background conversations were permissible, but saw the boundaries sharpen at the writing phase - the ideas, the phrasing, the word choice had to be all hers. Motherlode Blog: When 'Help' With Homework Is Too Much 2013-02-03T14:22:47Z Refusing to produce goods for sale to comfortable collectors and instead making “dematerialized” works that sharpened and elasticized thought were construed as forms of political resistance. Art Review: Lucy R. Lippard and Conceptual Art, at Brooklyn Museum 2012-10-18T20:10:23Z Sprawled atop a chaise longue there, the couple’s Burmese cat, Mic, which they bought from a breeder in Tulsa, Okla., sharpened its claws on some costly upholstery and emitted unearthly yowls. 19 Things About Betty Catroux 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z And you sharpen those tools the more you read. Jason Isbell’s got hope for the high road: “If you yell at people they’re going to stop listening” 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z We need things to be sharpened up from time to time, and we all like a good thriller. Alexander McCall Smith published his first hit novel at 50 and hasn’t stopped. How does he do it? 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z It delineates an alternative universe of urgent expression and sharpens the eye for another one that may wait round the corner, perhaps on the internet. Photography in the Raw 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z But he was also getting ready for college, having decided to try for Yale, and after spending some time at Oberlin to sharpen his skills, he was admitted there. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z At the same time, the school sharpened its professional focus by allowing students to submit a full-length feature film as a thesis project. Film School Students Aplenty, but What About Jobs? 2011-07-04T15:57:39Z Possibly by sharpening their ancestral disembowelling tools while eyeing this Cambridge academic narrowly. TV review: Show Me The Funny and British Masters 2011-07-18T21:00:01Z Ms. Meade’s plush soprano, with a silvery glint that sharpens when she sings forte, eloquently expressed her character’s volatility and pain. Review: The Opera Orchestra of New York Shares a Story Inspired by a Byron Poem 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z A standout among five salads was a twist on the Caesar: a Basque sheep's milk cheese melting into grilled romaine, a creamy dressing sharpened with sherry vinegar, and crispy batter-fried anchovies mimicking croutons. Bake's bops into Bellevue, blowing changes in the kitchen 2012-08-16T20:54:04Z The last ever newspaper column has now run and a new guru is warming up and sharpening whatever it is you need to have really sharp to properly steer this wonderful ship. Happy Christmas from Readers recommend 2010-12-24T00:01:08Z Hellegers tries to approach each role with respect by doing research, discussing with the writer and sharpening his voice skills, he said. As Audiobook Market Grows, Narrators of Color Find Their Voice 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z The chorus, sharpened by Auto-Tune, is “No, no, no” — it’s simultaneously denial, reassurance and proof of life. Rosalía Issues an English Request, and 9 More New Songs 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z A chill was in the air, sharpened ever so slightly by a soft breeze. Anxious? Yes. But Not About My Son’s Wedding. 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z Colella clips her words and sharpens her gestures, hitting her notes with the punch of a boxer in the ring. ‘Suffs’ Review: Young, Scrappy and Hungry for the Right to Vote 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z I sharpened the blades of my old skates. Searching for a River to Skate Away On 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The poetry sharpened the syllables and the actors were bonded by old words that conjured potions, deceits and mistaken passion. Buddies and budding actor, writer hustle to land their big breaks 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z His observations about fashion and culture sharpened over time. Bill Cunningham: An Enigma in a Blue Sanitation Worker’s Jacket 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Tillamook cheddar sharpens the sauce for tubular corkscrew noodles and tiny bay shrimp topped with a carpet of toasted breadcrumbs and fresh crabmeat. Landlocked Anthony's Seafood Grill scores a hit 2012-03-22T22:53:32Z The museum presentation often sharpens appreciation of Weegee by comparing his images with those by other photographers. Art Review: ?Weegee? at International Center of Photography - Review 2012-01-19T23:35:18Z When that talk turns to branding, though, and voices start to sharpen, a meeting about prestige, publicity and populism evolves into a larger debate about survival — as well as one very civilized power struggle. Frederick Wiseman: The Filmmaker Who Shows Us Ourselves 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z I rearrange books, sharpen knives–the ones I am certain not to use–and change knobs on dressers and cabinets, but only if the ones I am replacing were perfectly fine. Southern Journal: The Fine Art of Piddling 2012-01-04T16:50:02.180Z But the focus sharpened tightly when Roomful of Teeth took the stage for the searing “You Are Not the Guy,” from Hearne’s five-part exploration of racial and cultural identity, “Coloring Book.” Roomful of Teeth and A Far Cry give a biting performance at National Gallery 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Revisiting them in middle age only sharpens that suspicion, whetting it against the contradictory pondering of whether letting go of our dreams truly serves us. The "Party Down" cater waiters are back, but has the now-famous cast outgrown the pink bow ties? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z The bracing scallops from the North Coast benefit from diced green apple, chopped oysters and buttermilk sharpened with horseradish. Review | In Dublin, Chapter One begins and ends with pampering 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Pope, 28, spent most of the past decade sharpening his skills in top-notch Kansas City, Mo., restaurants such as The American Restaurant and R Bar. In tight times, restaurants, stores deliberately open and close within days 2011-09-01T18:16:03Z With Jahan at his side or on his back, the elephant entertains at the sultan’s celebrations, does heavy lifting on construction sites and, with sharpened, lethal tusks and to Jahan’s horror, goes to war. ‘The Architect’s Apprentice’: a boy and an elephant in Istanbul 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z How Snow Falls Like the unshaven prickleof a sharpened razor, this new coldness in the air,the pang of something intangible.Filling our eyes, the sinusitis of perfumewithout the perfume. Poem of the week: How Snow Falls by Craig Raine 2010-12-06T10:27:00Z By the time the episode was taped, the performances had sharpened and the laughs had been found. Jay Sandrich, Emmy-Winning Sitcom Director, Is Dead at 89 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Callahan doesn’t provide an autobiographical key to any of these changes, except to talk about them as a result of sharpening his method, and slightly relaxing the limitations he has placed on himself. Music: He Can Sing It, if Not Speak It 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z Like “Provenance” itself, they do more to affirm academic Marxist platitudes than to sharpen critical awareness about the nefarious doings of the collectibles industry. Amie Siegel: ‘Provenance’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z “Rich has sharpened his satire over the years, and he now wields it with skill — but he does not cut a wide swath. His tool is a scalpel, not a broadsword.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z These innovations sharpened the characters’ relationships; I wish an opera house could incorporate them once in a while. A jazzed-up ‘Carmen’ goes where Carmens have gone before 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z There would be echoes of Morgan in popular culture as well, in the sharpening divide between youth and its rulers. Jon Savage celebrates the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment 2011-02-10T21:45:01Z When Stan asks Paige if anything is wrong, Elizabeth nervously sharpens a large kitchen knife – just in case the unthinkable happens. 'The Americans' recap: Suspicious Paige demands answers 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z And he has put together a book, with Rizzoli, that sharpens the senses for the silent and seemingly insignificant. On the Runway: Playing a Sad Song for Joy: Mark Seliger 2011-02-22T18:24:23Z He simply needed to wander the wilderness of neglect for more than 30 years to sharpen his consummate sense of irony. Book review: ‘Skylight’ by Jose Saramago 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Hagood is interested in the way that orphic media is constantly “dulling and sharpening the senses, generating new aural sensitivities and means of suppressing and masking sound,” all in the name of self-control. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Lewis both captures and sharpens the contrast between them, showing us why their collaboration was impossibly incongruous and yet perfectly complementary. The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z When you leave the studio and go to a restaurant in a strange town and then go to a hotel room, whatever house you're renting, it sharpens your focus, I think. Mike Mills on R.E.M's "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" at 25: A record "infused by being on the road" 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Two years on, she was holding the audience's gaze and sharpening her banter. Laura Marling ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:48Z But what if it also helped sharpen her volition to get things — in the studio, on a film set, before a show — exactly, possibly obsessively, right? Barbra Streisand Is Ready to Tell All. Pull Up a Seat. 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z At the same time they wanted to go beyond the movie, giving back stories to several of the female characters and sharpening their repartee, as well as altering the ending. Women on the Verge of a Big Broadway Gamble 2010-10-07T18:28:00Z Tar Ngye had cut stalks of bamboo, sharpened them, and stuck them into the ground, hanging our sarongs and Ko Phyo’s hat out to dry. A Three-Day Trek in the Highlands of Myanmar 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Across the shoulder runs one word that Drake inscribed, with a sharpened stick or similar tool: “catination,” a variant of catenation, the state of being yoked or chained. The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z But watch Mr. Fiennes’s hands, look as they flutter, their white, spidery fingers idling with exquisite delicacy as the long nails, sharpened into perfect arrows, threaten the worst. | 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2': Childhood Vanishing in Swirls of Smoke 2011-07-14T01:03:02Z Silent-movie accompaniment, like circus music, is inherently an art of synchronization: it’s about sharpening the idea of a gunshot, a pratfall, a sudden reveal. Music Review: Satchmo?s Story, Music Substituting for Words 2010-08-31T22:25:00Z Young journalists sharpen their skills by overhearing how veteran reporters conduct their interviews. The newsroom was the beating heart of a local newspaper. What’s lost when the owner shuts it down? 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z But the nostalgia is sharpened to a point with an abrupt final jump to a chattery present-day Brooklyn dinner party. Movie Review: In ‘Go Down Death,’ the Past Gets Murkier 2014-03-28T00:09:02Z One law professor suggested Dumb Starbucks needed to sharpen its legal theory. TV comedian behind 'Dumb Starbucks' in Los Angeles 2014-02-11T15:18:25Z It’s possible to admire each scene and still see this film, in its entirety, as in need of some serious sharpening. Review: ‘The Nile Hilton Incident’ Puts the Noir in Cairo 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z But there’s no generation gap sharpening this disaffection: not only the Wiggin girls but also their father burn for something more than Fremont has to offer. Sad and Haunted Girls Who Couldn?t Play Worth a Lick 2011-05-22T00:45:25Z My daily knife honing was no match for knives that required sharpening. The controversial kitchen tool that's become my staple 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks" album also motivated him to sharpen his lyrics, and he began wedding the two styles: folk songwriting and soul emoting. For Jesse Dee, soul never out of style 2013-09-26T15:49:01Z Opportunities to sharpen both sets of skills are on offer, at reasonable prices, across the city. Weekend Miser: Queens County Farm Museum, Foraging Tour With Steve Brill 2012-08-02T19:28:48Z The revision certainly sharpens the poem's crucial insight, and stresses that the uneducated villagers were not simply denied the heroism of a lost golden age, but a political influence closer to home. Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2011-01-17T10:17:14Z It was a 1932 lino print called Grinders, a bold and bracing monochrome image of two men sharpening knives – a symbolic scene from a city famous for its steel industry. Leonard Beaumont exhibition pays tribute to Sheffield's prints charming 2012-12-31T16:00:01Z In “Circe,” like the recently published “Daphne,” Will Boast’s novel inspired by the story of Apollo and Daphne, the female perspective sharpens into focus in a way that doesn’t happen in the original stories. Two New Books Look at Mythology With Fresh Eyes 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Among the many joys of urban pedestrianism, they sharpen my understanding of art’s sensory effects while broadening my appreciation of the aesthetic byproducts of more workaday activities. The Art of Summer: Painterly Experiences Where They?re Least Expected 2011-08-24T12:01:01Z What better way to cope with a time of massive uncertainty than by sharpening our satire? Political theatre lacks the Commons touch 2010-10-19T11:04:00Z Zero Dark Thirty is a semi-documentary that sharpens its story by focusing on a dedicated woman who buries her feminine instincts and acts like a man. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z Learning from other prisoners, he built a crude, single-needle tattoo machine with a Bic pen, a melted toothbrush, a cassette tape motor, a paper clip and a sharpened guitar string for the needle. Tattoo you: Freddy Negrete, the black-and-gray style and an L.A. museum's new interactive exhibition 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z One or two things in Waters's play could be sharpened. Little Platoons ? review 2011-01-25T18:30:04Z Knife skills are life skills, and learning how to use, maintain and sharpen a knife is one of the most important things you will ever do in a kitchen. Seven ways you're ruining your food, and why knife skills are life skills | Adam Liaw 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Try one of those fancy electric carving knives you only use twice a year, or follow this helpful guide to how to sharpen your knife. “Can I baste my turkey with suntan lotion?” and 11 other incredibly bizarre Butterball Hotline questions 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The clothes are set against white cotton backdrops that sharpen their colors. Review: At the Costume Institute, Couture Meets Technology 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The coronavirus disaster has sharpened the already contentious political debate about income inequality. The pandemic is testing the generosity of billionaires, according to a Washington Post survey of the 50 richest Americans 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z At many moments he surprised me, despite my repeat viewings, with new melismas and spins on lyrics that sharpened the story to a slightly different point. Review: ‘Dear Evan Hansen,’ With a Real Teenage Evan 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z In recent years, the museum’s leadership has sharpened its focus on social justice, in deference to the values of the family that inspired it. Using History to Provide a Lens Into Today’s Politics 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z That he knew it only sharpened his scorn. Billy Joel at the Hollywood Bowl: 5 thoughts on his final show 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z The United States of “Chain-Gang All-Stars” is like ours, if sharpened to absurd points and flung a few decades into the future. In This Satire, Televised Blood Baths Offer Prisoners a Path to Freedom 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z When one of models at the Vivienne Westwood Red Label show walked down the runway apparently sharpening a knife, you wondered who or what might get cut up. Special Report: Creating a 3-D Geometry 2010-02-22T18:30:00Z Being English, I am always keen to criticise and thought I should sharpen up my technique of derision, sarcasm and occasional loftiness. If you want my opinion, what we need are experts, not windbags 2013-02-24T00:05:40Z The work, five panels of sharpened porcelain teeth, honored the memory of Ota Benga, a Congolese pygmy with pointed teeth who was put on display at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Bronx Zoo. Distinct Prisms in an Ever-Shifting Kaleidoscope 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z But on the runway, the tailored pieces were planted with studs to sharpen up the look. Special Report: Fashion: Chanel: Apocalypse Now 2011-03-08T19:03:08Z But one immediate consequence will almost certainly be that everyone, from industry professionals to Friday-night filmgoers at the multiplex, will now watch movies with sharpened attention to the demographic details. In Hollywood, must ‘white’ always equal ‘universal’? 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z And he pushed himself physically, working with a private trainer to sharpen his agility, balance and footwork. Is Kirk Cousins capable of greatness? 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The man the White House press secretary Jen Psaki referred to early on as looking to project a “cool grandpa” vibe sharpened his message as his campaign evolved. Some Notes on 100 Days of Biden Style 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z In our recent exploration of crowd-pleasing American red wines, I tried to sharpen the contrast between processed, mass-produced bottles, like the three we tried, and the simpler agricultural wines that are our usual focus. Back to the Supermarket: Looking for the Good 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z And here the mood sharpened, taking on a more overtly theatrical edge. Dance Review: New Ideas Between Twists and Turns 2011-03-18T22:04:29Z My kids and I played around in the free offerings a bit before dinner, warming up with some Hidden Picture puzzles to sharpen our focus. Not your mama's Highlights magazine 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The same holds true of Ben, whose worldview falters only because Mr. Ross seems anxious to soften the extremes he’d sharpened. Review: Viggo Mortensen Captivates in ‘Captain Fantastic’ 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Linguine tinted black with squid ink comes scattered with mussels and shrimp, their light tomato sauce sharpened with crushed red pepper flakes. Review | Rosario review: An elevated neighborhood spaghetti house in Adams Morgan 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z It was also a band without a singer, solos or stage presence, and it refused to sharpen its message. Review: Tortoise Revisits Its Elusive Identity on ‘The Catastrophist’ 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Bourne's choreography, sharpened up for this revival, fleshes out the story handsomely. Cinderella ? review 2010-12-10T17:26:00Z The finger-pointing introduced by Jules Bakshi, a more focused performer, sharpens the material, but the work gathers real force only when three or four of its motifs are going at once. Dance Review: Emily Faulkner Wind-Up Dances at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-06-17T22:10:42Z In fact, the growth of diversity both in the audience and in the places it sharpens its opinions has brought only benefit to any dramatist whose first love is experiment and innovation. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z But to gather them into a deeper experience, the storytelling needs sharpening. Framing a difficult past with sequins and hip-hop The décor will be lighter than the Breslin’s, but sharpened with the graphic style of the Viennese Secession. Kono, Yakitori From an Expert, Opens in Manhattan’s Chinatown 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z With a laugh, he said the work he’s done lately sharpening other skills — and making smaller-scale records like his latest, this year’s instructively titled “Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep.” — reflects “the dignity of defeat.” Moby goes where Brian Eno, and his ancestor Herman Melville, went before 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z But it’s an impressive consolidation of his strengths, tightening up his songwriting and sharpening his often disturbing wordplay. Album review: The Weeknd, 'Echoes of Silence' 2012-01-12T22:32:00Z She has limbs that light up, have speakers in them, are sharpened points, and even one covered in Swarovski crystals. The World's First Amputee Pop Star Is Here, And She's Incredible 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z The young fighter has sharpened his mind along with his body. “Creed” Is a Knockout 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Lately, though, two new shows — one going for strict LOLs, the other going for a remarkable depth of existential despair — are cutting reality TV with newly sharpened blades. ‘UnREAL’ and ‘Another Period’: From female creators, sharp jabs at reality 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Maybe it's the way he wields his characters' righteous anger and quick wit, sharpening them into weapons that have proven, at times, to be more dangerous than any gun. Why has Timothy Olyphant become TV's go-to lawman? 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z “Yes, but” because I felt sharpened by it, grateful for its provocations. Lauren Oyler’s ‘Fake Accounts’ Captures the Relentlessness of Online Life 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z After spending the morning at Little Beach, where the sea air sharpened our appetites, we took a private boat into town for lunch at Central Provisions. Maine’s Cushing Island delivers a whole lot of wonderful nothing 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z One of those that remains, Ernest Wright, lent working machinery to the production, so actors could sharpen real blades during “Scissors.” 3 Theaters, 3 Plays, One Cast, All at Once 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z It was not the sharpened moment of post-feminist commentary that, fairly or otherwise, so many of us look for from the duo. 2015 Golden Globes: Flat jokes, but pleasing upsets 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z She was famous for one-liners such as, “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue” and “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.” One last zinger: Dorothy Parker’s headstone unveiled in NYC 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z He also reveals the secret behind his trademark moustache, first worn in tribute to Little Richard and now maintained with the help of Maybelline Expert Eyes in Velvet Black "applied and sharpened twice a day." Still Waters 2010-12-04T00:03:00Z Who was responsible? – then sharpened and expanded with time. 'A failure of our system': inside a damning take on the Great Recession 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z It’s a classic tale yet one sharpened with a surprising, contemporary edge. No sequels allowed: the 12 best alternative movies to watch this summer 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Yet, when it comes to herself, the narrator is coy, refusing to provide information that could sharpen her pixelated self-portrait. A Black Woman in Finance Regains Her Agency 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z This sharpening of the 6 Music weekend schedule is a further display of our commitment to showcase some of the most charismatic talent in music radio right now. 6 Music announces schedule changes 2013-10-08T09:23:47Z Her voice, in real time, is a reedy soprano that hints at a higher register Stevie Nicks, seizing attention a with fluttering vibrato that sharpens the emotional peaks. CMJ 2014: Make That R-Y-N Weaver 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z What has sharpened is the charge of anger throughout, explicit in certain pieces and more generally conveyed by the work’s amped-up, retrograde-and-beyond camp style. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z I was going to take my time, and not try to sharpen the undefined parts of myself. Planning my wedding as a non-binary bride 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z The changes are meant to sharpen a trilogy-capping movie that never managed the kind of acclaim that the original “Godfather” and “The Godfather Part II” did. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Hemingway’ and ‘The People v. the Klan’ 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z For a talented player with ambition and a good grasp of jazz history, the club is a fixed entity: you sharpen your playing, get a band, find a sound and swim toward the Vanguard. 2010-02-11T08:10:00Z The era of bound letter collections is over — when you had to prepare the ink, sharpen the quill and break out the sealing wax, what you said had better be important. Perspective | Google wants to write your emails for you. It’s time to draw the line. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z “Deviled” eggs are more accurately devilish: soft-cooked and divinely draped in smoky, sweet bacon marmalade sharpened with horseradish. Taste of the Big Easy: bacony, boozy, crispy-fried and good 2014-02-27T22:27:38Z The Broadway double-bill would be called “Wolf Hall, Parts 1 and 2,” to sharpen and simplify the branding and marketing. 'Wolf Hall' and Its Sequel Aiming for Broadway After London Success 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z How else to explain Frances' penchant for sharpening a knife in the dark because she likes the sound it makes? Michelle Pfeiffer brings sly elegance to the peculiar but charming "French Exit" 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z As the documentarian reminds him of the case’s details and presents him with files, recollections yank Hays back and forth through the decades, sharpening his desperation to reconstruct the ragged patchwork of his life. "True Detective" is still a mess: Mahershala Ali can't save Nic Pizzolatto's story 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z Silence for me seemed to have an exponential effect, enhancing not only my ability to go within, but sharpen my focus. Four days of silence 2012-10-16T00:00:00Z It just needs to provide a tonic to duller flavours, to sharpen a meal’s edges, help define where one taste stops and another begins. Liberate your salads! | Everlasting Meals with Tamar Adler 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z His capacity to transform construction-site leftovers into stimulating compositions sharpens the senses, boggles the mind and attunes us to our surroundings, not to mention our memories of other situations. Anthony Caro's 1960s work -- the thrill is still here 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps the plays most likely to speak to contemporary audiences are the comedies, and one of the great revelations of Williams’s late work is the sharpening of his acid comic voice. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z And the jangly, jumpy energy he brings to a story of silence, solitude and confinement gives the film an irreverent kick that deepens and sharpens its emotional and spiritual insights. Film: Movies, Mountains and High Hopes 2010-09-06T22:55:00Z For now, many podcasters say, the money spent by platforms, media companies and advertisers has helped enable experimentation in the format and a sharpening of storytelling techniques. Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Her tendency toward self-censorship—“nine billion pieces of candy corn are sold annually, annals, anal, oh no no no”—is more than comedic fodder; it is the stone that sharpens the rare confession. Can One Sentence Capture All of Life? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z “I’m obsessed,” Ms. Salcedo said, with a resolve that seems, like much of her art, to be sharpened by the public’s indifference to suffering. Doris Salcedo, Whose Art Honors Lives Lost, Gets a Retrospective in Chicago 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z But for the note-taking designers in the audience, the focus sharpened most when Thompson was talking about the crew she works with, how that fountain was constructed and what that erosion fabric was made from. Perspective | The low-key, high-style approach to crafting gardens for the stars 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Their short, sharp shock of a set in the William's green tent has the unnerving tension of breaking glass and sharpening blades. Rolling Stones steal Glastonbury from other debutantes – review 2013-06-29T23:56:12Z Mr. Armitage spins out surreal satires sharpened by his wicked wit. Books of The Times: Poems by Bao Phi, Roberto Bola?o and Simon Armitage ? Review 2011-12-19T22:52:42Z Among the diverse joys embraced are misplaced apostrophes, coffee drinking rituals, belly-slapping in the shower, the specifics of biscuits in Mike Leigh films, and an erotic passage on sharpening pencils. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z The pace can be, at times, meandering, but the focus appears to sharpen with her discovery, among her father’s reading materials, of a racist tract called “The Black Plague.” Review: Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' reveals a darker side of Maycomb 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z The self-taught artist's drawings were made with a sharpened stick dipped in soot and saliva. James Castle artwork found in home in dispute 2012-04-11T17:44:09Z Its main ingredients are raw and rolling dance grooves and long dazzling displays of guitar work rather than lyrical subtlety or the urge to sharpen the minds of audiences back home. Bombino: Niger's Tuareg guitar hero 2013-04-07T16:00:01Z Photograph: Rust Design No doubt the architecture critics will be sharpening their knives to criticise the scheme. The breathtaking potential of Liverpool (and Wirral) Waters 2013-03-07T17:00:00Z But "the unshaven prickle/ of a sharpened razor" which the "pang" evokes is itself elusive: the phrase produces a tingle, rather than a specific image. Poem of the week: How Snow Falls by Craig Raine 2010-12-06T10:27:00Z But the Uruguayan economy tanked in the nineteen-fifties, sharpening class disparities and politicizing students and laborers. Mario Benedetti’s Wise, Lonely Novel about Political Exile 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z She turns back to the judge, sharpens her gaze, and begins to speak; it is impossible to guess what she will say. The Emmys 2016: The Season’s Most Memorable TV Moments 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z So I traded in my sharpened pencils for an apron and a pair of clogs, and started serving tables five nights a week at a local pub. Modern Love: Modern Love - Friends Without Benefits 2013-01-10T20:42:11Z Gerry’s dismissive zingers — sharpened by his own anxiety and loneliness — are consistently hilarious. Review | Too much monotone in ‘Bright Colors’ at Studio Theatre 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z But this moment has also sharpened activists’ focus, and expanded their tent. Using Comedy to Push for Abortion Rights 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z The hunter-gatherer instinct is kindled, the concentration is sharpened and the tension mounts: will I find that treasure or not? When my husband died, mushroom foraging helped me out of the dark 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z The camera slides from his shoulder down to his hand and forearm sharpening a knife blade. 1985: When ‘Rambo’ Tightened His Grip on the American Psyche 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Everything in controlled, measured out and sharpened to a point. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z In comedy, editing sharpens something that’s already funny, cutting out superfluous material and shaping the rhythm of a performance. A Political Satirist for the Internet Election 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Any professional chef will tell you that good knives are only to be sharpened manually and with a whetstone — electric knife sharpeners are for the uneducated, who don't truly care about their tools. The controversial kitchen tool that's become my staple 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Always, there are larger dishes of pork, like a well-executed saltimbocca, served over a pillow of buckwheat polenta sharpened with balsamic. Choice Tables: Atlanta Serves Sophisticated Southern 2011-05-06T20:15:00Z It sounds like a band making a calculated attempt to crack the mainstream, with its smooth, shiny finish, its beats processed to metronomic perfection, its hooks sharpened and placed front and centre. ZZ Top: Dalís of the Delta 2012-11-08T19:00:00Z Here's how to sharpen your knives with electric sharpener and a whetstone. The very best way to sharpen your knives 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z This contrast is obvious enough when you juxtapose the powerful abstractions of Terry Frost and Patrick Heron with the actual, tourist-strewn landscape, but wherever possible Fox sharpened it with an anecdote. TV review: At Home With the Georgians 2010-12-03T08:00:00Z I completely understand that taking the extra time to sharpen properly is the best course of action. The controversial kitchen tool that's become my staple 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z He sharpened pikes, scowled and muttered, lit in the glow of walker fires that symbolized both his consuming rage and an addled existential hell. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 4: The Price of Inner Peace 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z I confess that a degree of midlife befuddlement has crept up on me of late, coinciding unhappily with the sharpening of my children’s critical faculties. Why your teenager thinks you’re an idiot 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Also, a mention by former General Manager Bruce Crawford that Levine, always eager to sharpen his skills, avidly attended every rehearsal by legendary conductor Carlos Kleiber during his few Met appearances. Book celebrates Levine's 40-year Met Opera career 2011-05-02T10:37:07Z Her bright, shiny soprano, with its wheeling vibrato and metallic edge, conveys a high-strung emotionality that is sharpened by her acting skills. Music Review: Christine Andreas in ‘Bemused,’ at 54 Below 2013-01-29T23:07:45Z In each case Mr. Carter plays alto, bracingly, his in-the-pocket phrasing sharpened by the lurking threat of combustion. New Music: Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Claudia Quintet - New Albums 2011-10-11T00:13:28Z But up close, it’s clear that the artwork is a painting as much as a wall, covered with repeating black S-patterns that gradually sharpen into zigzags as you walk along it. ‘Desert X’ Treats Arid Space as a Rich Canvas 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s a delight watching Paulson and Davis sharpen the blades of their controlling characters against each other. Review: ‘Ratched’ Flies Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest and Into the Mire 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z What is it that happens to you, the writer, when the blurry face you’ve lived with for years is sharpened into specificity? Joan Castleman, Meet Glenn Close. What Happens When a Book’s Character Comes to Life. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z On good days, they communicate a tacit understanding that here is something worthy of their sharpened attention and focus. Perspective | As theaters reopen, a crucial cinematic ingredient is back: The audience 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z This is the stuff that makes late night hosts and the writing staffs of those series, along with “Saturday Night Live,” sharpen their verbal harpoons. "After Neverland," R. Kelly's CBS meltdown, and the insidious patterns we refuse to see 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z His observations were arguably sharpened by his supposed otherness. Lou Sullivan’s Diaries Are a Radical Testament to Trans Happiness 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The band’s 2017 album, “Down the Drain,” was an exercise in lyrical sharpening and heady persistence. D.C.’s Bacchae may be fed up, but at Songbyrd, that didn’t stop the band from raging 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z I actually sharpened a knife for someone to cut a buffalo's throat on a slaughter floor because it's about trying to reduce suffering. PETA founder: Animals need ‘somebody to stick up for them. No matter if it’s uncomfortable.’ 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Invite the cat to sleep in bed and to wake your partner at 5am by sharpening its claws on the bedside table. 15 ways to really annoy your partner 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The Philharmonic seems to be steadily acclimating to its newly renovated hall, though the brasses remain extremely bright-sounding at full force, sharpened rather than golden. Review: A Shostakovich Symphony Finally Reaches the Philharmonic 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z And despite Quinn’s venom — sharpened by anger over her father’s death — there’s the sense that Quinn’s gone through this herself and knows the drill by now. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2 Episode 4: ‘We Made All of This Happen’ 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z A new narrative begins to develop, and the motive begins to sharpen: Both boys tell their respective shrinks and social workers that they were afraid José would kill them. ‘Law & Order True Crime’ Season 1, Episode 4: There’s the Rub 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Surrounded by women celebrating motherhood sharpens the sorrow and heightens the sense of not belonging. Motherlode Blog: It's Not That I Don't Want Children. Exactly. 2012-05-06T14:06:12Z Academics have long fascinated moviemakers, though only a particular kind of moviemaker: the ones who go through their entire career without once filming a human being getting impaled on a gigantic, sharpened bamboo shoot. From Wonder Boys to Irrational Man: why Hollywood loves a hot professor 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z She sharpened his pencils with a knife because he thought the points lasted longer that way. Frances Kroll Ring, secretary of author F. Scott Fitzgerald, dies at 99 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z In her left hand is Dad's grindstone, but the knife she's sharpening isn't one I recognise. 'Jesus, Ralph, you're dangerous' | Rupert Thomson 2010-03-27T00:36:00Z Competition is a hard fact of life—a fact that the conditions of their upbringing have delayed for many Millennials, but against which Generation X sharpened its self-reliant entrepreneurialism. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z Winter weekends offer the perfect moment to repair, clean, sharpen and oil garden tools before the next growing season. Planning the season ahead 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Set once upon a time, the movie spins a legend that never was: Every 60 years, slavering creatures emerge from beyond to sharpen their teeth on human bones and stuff their bellies on meat. Review: Matt Damon Battles Clusters of Monsters in ‘The Great Wall’ 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z When you need to sharpen them, use a whetstone—not just steel, which doesn’t actually sharpen knives. 14 Cooking Hacks That Will Make Your Life Easier 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Attuned to the task at hand, suspicious of everything, our senses sharpened. Your Vacation Mission? Find This Stolen Horse 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z When I sharpen other people’s knives they look very happy, because they cut better. 'I still dream of my husband': life with dementia in Japan – photo essay 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z My senses were newly sharpened, hypersensitive to every detail, every breath; in visual and aural close-up, all the notes magnified, things were more vivid than they are in person. When Opera Entered the Chat 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z But they have an edge sharpened by the rigors of street style and the swagger of hip-hop, combined with a sense of luxury and understanding of technique. Hip-hop was poised to conquer fashion. Why did it stop short? 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The cakes, punctuated with crisp prosciutto, get a vivid red backdrop of tomato sauce sharpened with coriander seeds. A world of D.C. brunch options, no passport required As informative as "The Wall" is, it sharpens one's appreciation for the finely detailed work being done here by William Morris, Preston Singletary and other regional artists. 'The Wall' at Friesen Gallery opens new glass-art vistas 2011-06-20T20:30:06Z There is a cardboard sign written in pen promising a free skate sharpening if you get a black jaw-breaker. Extract: February by Lisa Moore 2010-08-06T08:53:00Z I’m taking acting lessons, just sharpening my craft. Baron Davis Directs Now. If There’s a ‘Space Jam 3,’ He Wants In. 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Throughout the trilogy, Mr. Xido quotes a question posed by a shaolin master: “Are you using this moment to sharpen your blade? To be here? To be alive?” Dance Review: ‘The Angola Project,’ About a Detour From a Film 2014-01-16T23:17:06Z This episode marked a clear turning point in Nasir's manner and outlook -- a sharpened survival instinct and a hardening of the spirit. ‘The Night Of’ Season 1, Episode 4: Friends or Foes 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z The French, who gave us the word ennui and sharpened the concept of existentialism, produced the works that may most help Mr. Snowden adjust to his new life, especially those of Jean-Paul Sartre. ArtsBeat: Russia for Beginners: A Literary Course for Edward Snowden 2013-07-25T23:16:45Z It may also have sharpened the prominence of a partisan alternative press, such as Breitbart.com, that regularly champions him. Mainstream media puts out the call for pro-Trump columnists 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Illogical though this may seem, it’s a reasonably accurate depiction of Justice Scalia’s occasional practice of hiring at least one clerk with opposing views, the better to sharpen his own arguments. Review: ‘The Originalist,’ About Scalia, Opens in Washington 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The animated sharpening of the knives and thoughtful facial expressions were burned into my mind's eye. BP Portrait award shortlist praised for diversity of styles 2011-04-13T18:29:48Z Doctors at the meeting shared sobering statistics and personal stories in urging the AMA to sharpen its focus on obesity prevention. AMA wants obesity education 2012-06-21T13:46:00Z “Necessity sharpens ingenuity,” said Sicilia, who won Miss International in 1985. Pageant powerhouse Venezuela to hold virtual beauty contest 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Poorly conceived or executed shows sharpen our critical eye and lead to rigorous discourse: Why didn’t this or that work? Theatre, Film, and Culture of 2014 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z She told a bland story about starring in a TV show, but her material sharpens when returning to her deadpan awfulness. Critic?s Notebook: Female Comedians Are Confidently Breaking Taste Taboos 2011-11-15T21:38:24Z Tennant came top of the poll with 10,518 votes, but family tensions are likely to be sharpened this week because of the actor who came bottom. Doctor Who: David Tennant voted fans' favourite Time Lord 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z Swing by its comfortable two-year-old location on Cerrillos Road for a cup of ink-black java, then, with senses duly sharpened, plunge into some bargain-hunting a few blocks away at El Museo Cultural Winter Market. 36 Hours in Santa Fe 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z It contains 100 declarer-play problems on which to sharpen your skills. Bridge: 100 Mind-Opening Problems for the Intermediate Player 2011-11-23T23:48:47Z But the composition of the piece — how the images accumulate, the pacing, momentum and emotional force — needs sharpening. Moroccan dance ‘Identity/Identite’ is bold and liberating, but its intentions aren’t clear Often I go with two or three friends; big country has a way of sharpening the connections between the people you choose to surround yourself with. Personal Journeys: A Case for Getting Far, Far Away 2013-05-16T17:46:20Z Under Belgian rule, the divide was further sharpened with the introduction of ID cards that specified one ethnicity or another, along with that of a third group, a minuscule minority known as the Twa. The Dark Underside of Rwanda’s Model Public Image 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Once I decided to build the text around different sharpening techniques, I panicked that I wouldn’t be able to write enough. Artisinal pencil sharpening 2012-06-07T00:00:00Z Bright green broccoli is tossed with grated Cheddar, almonds, apples and very delicate puffs of pork skin, all of them sharpened by preserved-lemon vinaigrette. A Celebration of Black Southern Food, at JuneBaby in Seattle 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Learn to use all five senses in the kitchen and you’ll become a better cook — especially if you sharpen the ones that are less associated with cooking: hearing, touch and smell. To Become a Better Cook, Sharpen Your Senses 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z But while “Picture the Dream” had been planned much earlier, subsequent events, including the racist massacre in Buffalo last month, have only sharpened its relevance. Viewing the Civil Rights Movement Through Children’s Books 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z That’s a big “if,” but “Mission Bell,” his fourth album on Blue Note, sharpens the payoff. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-24T23:19:27Z Of course, it’s a different kind of salivating: A lover’s drool is different in every way from the drool of a maniac sharpening his knives. Perspective | I am a former cannibalism scholar, and I finally watched ‘Dahmer’ 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Throughout “Arirang,” dancers point a finger and swirl it around; it’s the aimless hand jive of contemporary dance sharpened to its narrowest tip. Dance Review: Ko-Ryo Dance Theater’s ‘Arirang — We Go Beyond the Crossroad’ 2012-10-18T21:54:19Z It was taut, transfixing music, sharpened by the austerity of the setting: just Mr. Taborn at the piano, on his own. Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z It sharpens your wits – makes you mentally alert. Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z When his fingers sharpen into long points, Clementine decides to broach the subject, despite their unspoken agreement to never talk about anything. It’s Not Easy Being Evil 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z In a way, The Good Life heralded the advent of Margaret Thatcher as prime minister in its suburban self-confidence, its emphasis on "getting on" and an unapologetic sharpening of class consciousness. Richard Briers: the sweetest of men 2013-02-18T14:31:30Z They're often portrayed as the most trashy, vapid and empty-headed forms of digital entertainment, but it looks as if they may be particularly good at sharpening your mental skills. Are video games really the villains in our violent age? 2012-12-30T00:05:46Z The songs were sharpened by the parameters of live performance, sometimes drastically: “Lunatic,” written in response to the 2012 mass shooting in Aurora, Colo., feels overdetermined on the album but had a gnarly rightness live. Review: Bilal Brings Far-Out Viewpoint to This Life and His Show 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z You're being put in very magical, adult situations where you get to sharpen your own inner voice. Round Table: Four self-possessed voices from Young Hollywood 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Taste, season generously, and add a dash of vinegar to sharpen things up, should you want to. A peperonata recipe straight from Rome | Kitchen sink tales 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z There, in some ways, we find the stories we all tell with our food, sharpen the ideas we hold about where we come from and realize what has influenced us along the way. What the Food We Cook Reveals About Us 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Its characters' shared dilemma is, of course, merely a sharpened version of the one we all face daily, and around which have been constructed great edifices of religion and philosophy. Artful 'Leftovers' on HBO leaves viewers wanting more 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Adjei-Brenyah’s own retail experiences were less fraught, only fueling his ardor and sharpening his knack for discerning just what is that his customers want. You Are What You Wear 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The breakneck pace of “Devil May Care” sharpened the hard edges in the narrator’s proclamation of defiant recklessness. Music Review: The Tierney Sutton Band Plays at Birdland 2012-01-27T23:21:40Z The movie's opening close-ups, of knives being sharpened with gusto, establish a brutal, militant tone that is maintained via a series of confrontations in which soldiers, politicians and rebels vie for control of the empire. 'Coriolanus': Brutal, modern take on Shakespeare's war drama 2012-02-02T21:06:04Z There is no suggestion of political axes being sharpened. Movie Review: ‘Epic,’ Directed by Chris Wedge 2013-05-23T22:59:35Z Yet what those riders do isn’t all that different from what happens in a “Prince Valiant” panel: “The men put their gear in order and carefully sharpen their swords.” Review: ‘Last Knights’ Has Sword Swinging and Cape Twirling in the Name of Revenge 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z You die on the battlefield, then are instantly reborn back at the Heathrow training base, where you sharpen your warrior skills while memorizing every detail of the Mimics’ movements. REVIEW: Edge of Tomorrow: Being Tom Cruise, Forever 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z More than that, their vision seemed so sharpened, they said, that "we could read the print on thrown-away cigarette packets as we passed". Albion Dreaming by Andy Roberts - review 2012-07-25T07:00:03Z But the cumulative reductionism of his work, the austerity of its dun-colored palette, dulls the mind more than it sharpens the eye. Andrew Wyeth leaves viewers on the outside looking in But on its new song, the band sharpens its aim and agenda, aligning with protesters at Standing Rock and in Peñuelas, Puerto Rico. The Playlist: Taylor Swift and the Jesus and Mary Chain Offer Different Shades of Teases 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z “We’re still allowed to have a title on the things we create and ‘help out,’ like, I guess sharpening pencils and stuff.” Cultural Studies: Parting Is Such Sweet Revenge 2012-08-10T21:10:47Z Now, “The Half of It” reflects sharpened ideas and a honed directorial voice. ‘The Half of It’ Review: Being Yourself (and That Person, Too) 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Though devoid of music, scenes pulse with the rhythms of brutality as our antihero sharpens a knife to the beat of a metronome, and gurgled screams echo off screen. Movie Review: ?Dissolution,? a Film Set in Israel by Nina Menkes 2012-03-09T00:49:35Z I’m sitting at the kitchen table scribbling hard with a sharpened pencil. Why did you leave, mom? 2012-07-18T00:00:00Z To get a crisp look, you can add concealer at the end to sharpen up the lines. Smudgy Eye Makeup Makes a Comeback 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Stephen Stills was stabbed repeatedly in the leg, with a sharpened bicycle spoke, by an unknown Angel. The Chaos of Altamont and the Murder of Meredith Hunter 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z |
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