Word: chiselling
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More than that, however, the military functions with a certainty of purpose that strikes us as simplistic and often dangerous. Like good academics, we chisel away at the foundations of belief, morality and religion with unbridled skepticism. We’re ever on-guard against dupery...
...permanence with his sculptures, but by attempting to defy time they succeed in accepting it and even reveling in it. Like human beings, his works fester and rot. Roth has no interest in being the glorious artist whose work is completed with the final stroke of the chisel. He encourages the changes that time inflicts as his work takes on a life...
...font (“Golden Cockerel,” for the curious) that offers, according to a note at the end of the volume, a “face of notable heft, with a dense color on the page and sharp serifs reminiscent of the carver’s chisel.” The intended effect, obviously, is one of words hewn in granite, with Rudenstine as a 21st century Moses, handing down a new set of commandments—although perhaps we should call them “suggestions,” instead, since our former president was above...
...chessboard flats of Amadror?"I had no idea Nature could be so kitsch"?to the stone steeples of the Tin Ghergoh range, searching for fading ocher smears of mountain goats and jellyfish. Much of the art has been damaged, some by Islamic fundamentalists on a Taliban-like crusade to chisel the world into compliance with their interpretation of religious law. But most of the embellishments are by tourists. "Loulou," one writes. Most scrawl dates. A German tells Keenan he likes "the way in which 'modern artists' had made their own contributions to the sites." Keenan's subsequent rants take Sahara...
...voters I am trying to reach] have no reason to support the Republican and Democratic parties…The Republicans and Democrats attempt to divide the people through issues like partial-birth abortion, wedge issues meant to chisel away at each other's support base," Hagelin says...