Word: hewn
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...Ross Ice Shelf, a mesmerizing expanse of white that stretches to the horizon and beyond. Wreathed in ice fog, the ice shelf takes on the haziness of a mirage. Yet it is all too substantial. Its surface ripples with undulating pressure ridges and solid, wind-hewn waves called sastrugi that move with the ice as it flows inexorably toward...
COOKING NATURALLY Maori tradition forbids accurate representation of the human form. But the rough-hewn wooden figures lining the ancestral hall at the Whakarewarewa Thermal Reserve, with their bulging eyes and protruding tongues, still manage to make their intentions known. "It's a threatening gesture, meaning, 'I'm going to eat you,'" explains Justin, my Maori guide...
...polished, left-leaning Blair and the rough-hewn, conservative Bush are an odd couple, but the chemistry in their relationship "is just as good as with Clinton," says one Whitehall official. A senior Bush aide agrees. "Blair's not a Eurowimp. He's not ponderous, hand-wringing and he doesn't lecture. He gets to the bottom line and that's Bush's cup of tea." The President recently wrote Blair a note saying, "I like your style." They use each other as sounding boards, they chew things over, and they disagree - though Downing St. is exceedingly disciplined about...
...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 all a defender of intellectual diversity...
...complement his eccentric creations, he employs language so richly textured and wildly unconventional that it seems to be drunk on its own words. Dissolving the long-hewn pillars of “good message” and “good taste,” he gives gaudy and vulgar personalities, vaudevillian song-and-dance and narrative non-sequitur the freedom to run amok onstage...