Strange the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moments unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.
Her handwriting was curious small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).
Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately.
I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.
We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.
I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.
He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he was penitent, he was invariably in the very last stage of maudlin intoxication. He was a ragged, roving, roaring kind of fellow, with a burly form, a sharp wit, and a ready head, and could turn his hand to anything when he chose to do it.
Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression.
Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true, inner selves and the outside world is pervasive, but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.
Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.
All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.
There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.
Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.
With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed.
. . now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me.
Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.
'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.