Sentences with phrase «sharp edge of»

About Blog We stand at the crossroads of gender balanced on the sharp edge of a knife.

The ability to interpret your partner's actions and intentions charitably can soften the sharp edge of conflict.

«The ability to interpret your partner's actions and intentions charitably can soften the sharp edge of conflict,» Psychologist Ty Tashiro told The Atlantic.

About Blog We stand at the crossroads of gender balanced on the sharp edge of a knife.

The black steel case looks almost glossy but held up very well when I whapped it repeatedly with the sharp edge of a metal ruler.

For example, if your roommate is gets cut on a sharp edge of your dining table, the necessary medical attention could be billed to your renter's insurance policy because the table belonged to you, making you liable for injuries it may cause.

Just storage for long enough to blunt the sharp edge of the impacts and allow slower natural sequestration methods to work.

To a large extent, it is about controlling language and the use of terminology in a twin attempt to blunt the sharp edge of climate change scepticism and bring wayward scientists into line on the use of politically «appropriate» phrases.

Crossman's work has always inhabited the ambiguous line between abstraction and representation, but with her recent work, and particularly in her Pacifica Series, she is teetering on the laser - sharp edge of the divide.

With great focused strength and sharp edge of paint application executed alongside the subtlest and most gentle gradations of color and light, he creates the atmosphere of his beguiling compositions.

About Blog We stand at the crossroads of gender balanced on the sharp edge of a knife.

Bumping into the sharp edge of a coffee table can injure your pet.

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker The sharp edge of The Fault in Our Stars comes from how tragically young Hazel and Augustus are, and the notion of facing death in adolescence.

, The sharp edge of educational change: Teaching, leading and the realities of reform (pp. 52 - 71).

It is one of the funniest movies of the year, ranking with «The Graduate» and «Bedazzled» in the sharp edge of its satire.

A bromantic comedy with a sharp edge of melancholy, this indie casts Jack Black and James Marsden in the sort of parts they play frequently, then pushes them toward pathos.

All three Oscar winners are teaming up for a sharp edge of your seat thriller that feels all too realistic.

Any fears you had that marriage and a baby would dull the sharp edge of Dexter — I admit it, I was worried — have been thoroughly allayed by season 4's wonderfully swift, witty, and violent start.

When I left the hospital with empty arms, the sharp edge of isolation became my companion.

Puncture an astronaut's space suit — whether by projectile, the sharp edge of a tool or falling onto a rock — and you could let in a world of trouble.

You get the best of both worlds: the razor - sharp edge of high - carbon steel and the stain - resistant toughness of stainless steel!

If you're lucky, you haven't tripped over anything or pierced the bottom of your foot on the sharp edge of a toy.

Lineker was the sharp edge of Bobby Robson and company's jaunt through Italia 90, scoring twice from the penalty spot against Cameroon — having also won both penalties, much to Cameroonian displeasure — and then equalising late against West Germany in the semi-final.

All of this anticipation would live or die on the razor - sharp edge of a racing ski.

Each cut drastically impacts the sharp edge of the blade, dulling with each successive impact.

The sharp edge of the pan will cut off any overhanging dough.

The Maryland Tradition reached a particularly sharp edge of intellectual development at the Jesuits» Woodstock College outside of Baltimore, which housed the pioneer ecumenist Gustave Weigel and the great theologian of freedom, John Courtney Murray.

Excessive, sentimental use has blunted the sharp edge of the word «repentance,» which involves more than an admission of wrong.

Followers suggest that ecumenical concerns drain away energies and smooth the sharp edge of competitiveness that beats out the other person and leads to success.

... Every article of human ingenuity has been employed to blunt the sharp edge of this scripture and to explain away the obvious meaning of these words, but it has been employed in vain, though nothing will ever be able to reconcile this and similar passages to the mind of the natural man (Pink, Sovereignty of God, 52).

One of the sights that surprised scientists most was the sharp edges of Saturn's hexagon and its central vortex.

He added that the United States should «temper the sharp edges of capitalism» with fiscal policies such as workforce development and employee retraining.

When you consider that Cisco sells about $ 15 billion worth of switches every year, a cloud - based management service sold with them could, Robbins argues, help smooth out the sharper edges of recurring boom - and - bust cycles.

His argument, part of which appeared in these pages («Leading Children Beyond Good and Evil,» May 2000), is that moral education as presently conceived almost inevitably ends up by thinning out moral content, removing the sharp edges of judgment, avoiding normative traditions of moral experience, and thus stifling the factors most crucial to the formation of character.

Fremont is also the sharpest edge of edgy, as in avant - garde.

Jeff Haanen, a freelance writer and school administrator, spoke with Platt on the pervasiveness of «cultural Christianity,» the role of hell in evangelism, and the sharper edges of following Christ today.

And even apart from developments in physics, philosophers like Whitehead have shown that they are actually mathematical abstractions from a concretely complex and value - laden world, which hardly corresponds in fact to the sharp edges of the primary quantities.

The «flattening» problem that Bloom worried about was too nervous about a brutish end of history than an infinity of beastly novelties, but we've put so much effort into sanding off the sharp edges of our beastliness that it's no surprise collective naughtiness seems at the same time to be getting safer and more dangerous.

Because a year has past, and like bad breakups and childbirth, time has a way of softening the sharp edges of our memories.

We used to have a big piece of cardboard duct - taped over our fireplace and squishy corners glued all over the sharp edges of the hearth.

The article goes on to explain some of the ways Debbie problem - solved to help Michael develop his natural - born talent of swimming while tempering some of the sharper edges of his ADHD tendencies.

Well, I'm not sure why they chose purple but it's so cute and they're made specifically out of rubber so there's no sharp edges of course that could hurt baby.

Put guards around tables and coffee tables to protect the baby from falling into the corners or sharp edges of the table.

We baby proof everything; put small and dangerous objects out of reach, cover up safety hazards, lock the cabinets, install gates, secure furniture to the wall, pad the sharp edges of tables and fireplace mantles, and put any and all valuables and destructive items safely away.

For childproofing your home you can include some common things like doorknobs guards, locks and latches for cabinets and drawers, safety gates for top and bottom of stairs, window safety guards, soft covers for the sharp edges of furniture, and secure heavy furniture with walls using safety straps.

The Danger: The sharp edges of the die - cast metal cars can pose a laceration hazard, though injuries were reported.

You may secure tall furniture with anti-tip straps or apply corner cushions to the sharp edges of furniture.

If you plan on chilling along the beaches of Southern Norway this summer, beware of stepping on the sharp edges of the pacific oyster (Crassotrea gigas).

By studying the forces required to round off the sharp edges of rocks, researchers came up with a model that predicts the maximum collision speeds needed for boulder - surfacing.

In addition, any larger parasites that happen to be in the stomach or digestive tract are «cut up» and killed by the sharp edges of DE (source).