sandpapering

Perhaps most worrisome is the idea of sandpapering away personality traits that not only make us individuals, but which evolved for a good reason.

One Pill Makes You Larger, And One Pill Makes You 2008

The politics of the next few years will feature a bunch of wealthy men shutting down SureStart centres, ending Child Trust Funds, sandpapering down tax credits, and increasing unemployment.

Johann Hari: This Is Not What the British People Voted for Johann Hari 2010

The politics of the next few years will feature a bunch of wealthy men shutting down SureStart centres, ending Child Trust Funds, sandpapering down tax credits, and increasing unemployment.

Johann Hari: This Is Not What the British People Voted for 2010

Pankburn works ten hours a day removing rust from 150 fathoms — 900 feet — of rusted chain, chipping and sandpapering every link, painting every link with two coats of black lacquer.

“Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?” 2008

So it might make sense -- not so much as a moral matter but as a practical one -- to do some sugar-coating, some sandpapering of rough edges, some scattering-around of pillows.

Ethics and IQ, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Try for that “wheeze-box on fire” sound –- the one that sounds like someone sandpapering an elbow.

Buzzine » Comedy By the Numbers 2009

All process sandpapering and making hole took about half of hour, so it is not such a big deal.

Chopsticks, chopsticks! a stitch in time 2009

But except for a few spots where the music gallops and dies abruptly, Brooks has done a miraculous job of sandpapering and spackling the holes left by the 10 songs (only King's sweet one remains).

A Musical Loses Its Voice 2008

It is hard to think straight when you have got a wire poking into your sensitive breast meat or part of the strap across the back is sandpapering its way through your back.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

Now, whenever I go out on the porch I remember how rusty and pitted the railings used to look and how it bothered me, and the several hours I spent sandpapering it smooth, then the three coats of brown Rustoleum I applied, and now I'm watching it get whiter and cleaner with every new layer of paint I apply.

A Productive Day 2005