sharp-edged

• “Sometimes there are notices warning of inanimate dangers such as the invariably poorly-designed curves, sharp-edged shoulders that drop off into nothingness or shoulders that don't exist at all, perilous intersections, and traffic lanes that turn from two into one or from one into none, snail-paced farm implements and, inevitably, roads under repair.”

  Free riding the roads of Mexico

• “Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?”

  The Huffington Post: Jon Foreman: Outside the Fences

• “The tempestuous nature of memory, coupled with the joys and terrors of motherhood, animates this sharp-edged novel that deserves comparison with the fine yet often marginalized British female writers of the early - to late-twentieth century.”

  Advance reader reviews of The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell.

• “Molly Harper is a premier writer of paranormal romance with an abundance of sharp-edged humor. . .”

  Simon & Schuster: How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf

• “So what on earth was such a woman, a masterful, strident, self-possessed and sharp-edged woman, doing to herself with a man who repeatedly betrayed and humiliated her?”

  And Again, Love « Tales from the Reading Room

• “Like Brecht's verse here translated by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallmann, the music is acerbic, sharp-edged but hauntingly tuneful.”

  The Huffington Post: Howard Kissel: From Deadly Sins to Whipped Cream

• “Place a black obelisk like the one in 2001: A Space Odyssey in a field full of tulips, and our attention will be drawn to the sharp-edged obelisk rather than the flowers.”

  The ebb and flow of curvy cars

• “Indeed, MRI studies have found that the amygdala, a brain structure activated by fear-inducing stimuli, “lights up” more when sharp-edged objects are in view than when rounded ones are.”

  The ebb and flow of curvy cars

• “So: our natural preference for curvy cars can be overcome by the novelty factor of sharp-edged cars.”

  The ebb and flow of curvy cars

• “Likewise David Chipperfield's Museum Folkwang extension in Essen, another refined, sharp-edged German culture house for his collection.”

  The Guardian: Stirling prize shortlist: big names stop the judges in their tracks

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