Word: bladeful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...aroused, the son is eventually released. Then, with his zealotry intact, lunuma proceeds alone to his assassination target as planned, and commits the suicide he had desired-in the book's last sentence, which is touched by Mi-shima's lucid, kinetic imagery. "The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids...
...After slaughtering a dozen or so mannequins and being overcome in a fake fistfight Alice stepped forward to pay for his crimes. Out rolled a guillotine, and Alice's ugly little head was ceremoniously placed to the block. The snare drum rolled, the audience hushed, down came the blade and Alice's head seemed to drop away...
...draft a cable that sounded authentic, Hunt said that he then used a White House Xerox machine, a razor blade and a typewriter. Because it lacked the proper type face, however, he knew it would not stand careful scrutiny. He and Colson, Hunt testified, thereupon tried to convince a LIFE correspondent, William Lambert, that the cable was genuine. Lambert was impressed at first but later became doubtful and never wrote about...
...couple's declines are mutually encouraging: when Claire's taunts grow more intense, Sebastien begins to crack, at one point tearing his clothes to shreds with a razor blade, contorted with all the suffering he had held back so long. Kalfon's performance is as adept as Ogier's: he balances Sebastien's aggressions with his complicated professional finish...
Both crews rowed with well-drilled precision and pose through choppy waters, into a stiff quartering headwind, and successfully past a wandering sailor who drifted into the middle of the race course where he was nearly drawn and quartered by a sixteen-blade floating Veg-O-Matic...