Starting back in the stone ages, when a person created their resume (typed, written by hand, chiseled
with a sharp stone and slate, etc.) they would typically start the resume with an objective statement like this:
To start, the trio butchered a sheep carcass
with sharp stone flakes and found that the cutmarks indeed resembled those found on two different Australopithecine fossil arm bones — one dating to 4.2 million years ago and the other to 3.4 million years ago — as well as 2.5 - million - year - old animal bones discovered near the known stone tools in the Olduvai Gorge.
Not exact matches
The first time that he stretched out this cross upon his back his tender frame was struck
with terror at it, and blunted the
sharp nails slightly against a
stone.
After this comes the garlic, tons of it, finely chopped or mashed to perfection
with a
stone (similar to a mortar) or
with a knife's very
sharp blade.
According to Herodotus, the first incision was made
with a
sharp «Ethiopian
stone.»
Dr. Harmand, the lead author, says that the Lomekwi 3 artifacts show that at least one group of ancient hominin started intentionally «knapping»
stones — breaking off pieces
with quick, hard strikes from another
stone — to make
sharp tools long before previously thought.
This technology, named after the famous Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania where archaeologists Louis and Mary Leakey discovered the implements in the 1930s, consists of hitting a
stone «core»
with a
stone «hammer» in such a way that a flake
sharp enough to butcher an animal is struck off.
Anyone who may have slain a mammoth
with a
sharp sliver of
stone deserves my eternal respect and admiration.
No tools were found at the site, so it's unclear whether the marks were made
with crafted tools or simply
sharp - edged
stones.
The maker mainly used a two - handed technique, holding a core on another large rock, or anvil, and hitting it
with a hammer
stone to release
sharp flakes.
Look your
sharpest with black
stone items that can't be missed.
Flattering Bret Easton Ellis's
stone - cold satire
with a devilish Christian Bale performance and scalpel -
sharp period detail, Mary Harron's thriller is close to peerless as a picture of»80s - era vapidity and entitlement.
Dragged from her chariot by a mob of fanatical vigilante Christian monks, the revered astronomer was stripped naked, skinned to her bones
with sharp oyster shells,
stoned and burned alive as possibly the first executed witch in history.
Wouldn't it be great if every actor as
sharp and alive in 2018 as Sharon
Stone was in 1992 were given a Basic Instinct to play
with?
It looks good, but there's so much more they could have / should have done; the textures of the monsters» skin, grass and
stone etc look fairly low quality and not much better than what was on the Wii version (albeit in
sharper resolution) Some textures look pretty good though (like the cracked earth at roughly the 52:00 mark, the animations are great and the world shows a lot of depth (which is what really counts), so here's to MH 4 on Wii U that will hopefully show what the hardware can really do
with Capcom's amazing world!
Stone struggles a little
with the play's most melodramatic elements, but generally finds
sharp modern - day equivalents for its tale of two families riven by class struggle and buried secrets.
Fontana will be represented by a focused survey of his nearly five - decade career, spanning his earliest Spatial Concepts, in which small canvases evoke immense galaxies through swirling fields of paint subtly embedded
with small
stones and broken glass, to his famous Attessi, or cuts, in which the artist has used a
sharp knife to literally slice through the canvas surface into another space.
A flint - knapper makes
sharp stone flakes by striking a flint «core»
with a hammerstone.
And the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers — not the
sharpest tools in the shed — wonder why the cross-bench Senators moved to set up a select committee —
with the express objective of putting the blowtorch to the great wind power fraud — and have banded together to hatch a plan that'll kill the wind industry
stone dead (see our post here).
Members of the team have been described as: «very approachable», «suave, sophisticated...
with a razor -
sharp intellect», «very thorough» and leaving «no
stone unturned».