sharp-cut

• “Below, the sharp-cut stones, steep stairs, people in clusters.”

  Fictionaut: The Right Thing

• “Writing now, thirty years afterward, every vision is as distinct, as sharp-cut, every pain as vital and terrible, as on that night.”

  Chapter 4

• “The choreography, like the music, is sharp-cut and angular, but Lamb avoids the brittleness to which she's occasionally prone.”

  The Guardian: Jewels; The Metamorphosis – review

• “In a few minutes the far bank, a mile away, unobtrusively came into view, and ahead and behind, the whole frozen river could be seen, with off to the left a wide-extending range of sharp-cut, snow-covered mountains.”

  Chapter IV

• “As he brought his fingers closer to its sharp-cut facets, the floor beneath his feet seemed to vibrate softly, although he wondered if that was just his nerves betraying him.”

  Simon & Schuster: Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon

• “Very soft-looking slipper-socks, the same color as the robe, and with sharp-cut, floppy points front and back, came up to about mid-calf.”

  Fictionaut: Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth

• “While the light threw the sharp-cut features of the laird and his brother into a high relief, it merely made Arthur Duncan look fat and ill.”

  Fictionaut: Sick Cycle Carousel

• “Consider slicing ends off so all eight slices have sharp-cut sides.”

  A Veggie Venture

• “The plush silky coat is gone, replaced by yak hair; the muscles, cut with definition and tendons hard as cables, are gone, a bland flat smoothness taking the place of sharp-cut convexity; the bladed tapering limbs, ending in feet so fine you can see the veins feeding them and the tendons working them and the details of the joints, these are all gone, exchanged for hairy round balls.”

  Archive 2006-04-01

• “She was a little woman, now nearly sixty years of age, with bright grey eyes, and a strong Roman nose, and thin lips, and a sharp-cut chin.”

  He Knew He Was Right

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