pin-pricks

Only those fools who cleave to the dread phrase "living in the moment" can avoid the waves or pin-pricks – it's a personality thing of unease that vex most of us.

I'd be much happier if people stopped asking if I was happy | Rachel Cooke 2011

The pin-pricks, as Brent Scowcroft calls them, have started.

Steve Clemons: Obama Needs to be Nuanced in North Korea Response 2009

The pin-pricks, as Brent Scowcroft calls them, have started.

Steve Clemons: Obama Needs to be Nuanced in North Korea Response 2009

Now in the cruel haze of a merciless sun the same crevices run rivers and your breath creaks through scaled lips reeking of day-old body odours aching eyes shrink to pin-pricks of painfully perceived light.

The Same, Unrelenting Radiation (rev) Ivan Donn Carswell 2009

If you would like to have the sparkly pin-pricks of light I have mentioned, all you need to do is get a nice thick needle, and poke it through the paper from the back to the front, in a little pattern on just the white parts.

Archive 2009-06-01 Lee Lee 2009

Now in the cruel haze of a merciless sun the same crevices run rivers and your breath creaks through scaled lips reeking of day-old body odours aching eyes shrink to pin-pricks of painfully perceived light.

Archive 2009-01-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2009

The pin-pricks, as Brent Scowcroft calls them, have started.

Steve Clemons: Obama Needs to be Nuanced in North Korea Response 2009

If you would like to have the sparkly pin-pricks of light I have mentioned, all you need to do is get a nice thick needle, and poke it through the paper from the back to the front, in a little pattern on just the white parts.

Summer Lanterns. Lee Lee 2009

There exists, at the extremity of all abasement and all misfortunes, a last misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful conflict, where, now cunning, now violent, unhealthy and ferocious at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks through vice, and with club-blows through crime.

Les Miserables 2008

What more terrible to endure than the acrimonious pin-pricks to which a passionate soul prefers a dagger-thrust?

A Second Home 2007