sharp-cornered

After an almost 30-year relationship with yoga, I still pride myself on many things, and priding oneself on many things is like walking through a completely darkened room where there is a lot of small, sharp-cornered furniture located precisely at shin height.

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: The One-Legged "Yogini" Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2011

The book, while 98% present, does show some minimal signs of wear: one very tiny (less than 1/8 in.), almost invisible, dent to bottom edge, one small (less than 1/4 in.) superficial scratch at front cover, small (less than 1 in.) superficial scratch at rear cover, bottom front corner has minor bump (no grazing), other 3 are quite sharp-cornered.

2009 June | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

After an almost 30-year relationship with yoga, I still pride myself on many things, and priding oneself on many things is like walking through a completely darkened room where there is a lot of small, sharp-cornered furniture located precisely at shin height.

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: The One-Legged "Yogini" Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2011

The book, while 98% present, does show some minimal signs of wear: one very tiny (less than 1/8 in.), almost invisible, dent to bottom edge, one small (less than 1/4 in.) superficial scratch at front cover, small (less than 1 in.) superficial scratch at rear cover, bottom front corner has minor bump (no grazing), other 3 are quite sharp-cornered.

2009 June 28 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

The book, while 98% present, does show some minimal signs of wear: one very tiny (less than 1/8 in.), almost invisible, dent to bottom edge, one small (less than 1/4 in.) superficial scratch at front cover, small (less than 1 in.) superficial scratch at rear cover, bottom front corner has minor bump (no grazing), other 3 are quite sharp-cornered.

Wish list: Golden Cockerel’s Poems and Sonnets of Wm. Shakespeare 2009

After an almost 30-year relationship with yoga, I still pride myself on many things, and priding oneself on many things is like walking through a completely darkened room where there is a lot of small, sharp-cornered furniture located precisely at shin height.

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: The One-Legged "Yogini" Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2011

William's ­parents engaged uneasily in these transactions, he ­remembers: "The house needed the money but they watched anxiously as strangers lugged sharp-cornered gear through medieval doorways and leaned spiky lighting rigs against Tudor paneling."

Within The Castle Walls 2009

In winter, the garden was reduced to an arrangement of sharp-cornered hedges, an homage to discipline and order.

In This Way I Was Saved Brian DeLeeuw 2009

Starting with the opening scene, in which sharp-cornered not-quite-fanfares play in the background as we see Burgess Meredith and Lon Chaney Jr. running from an angry mob of rifle-toting ranchers, the music catches you by surprise and puts you into the midst of the action and the minds of the characters.

Copland in Hollywood 2008

And so it rose and flew, gloriously propelled by human force; with indescribable joy I watched it spinning sharp-cornered like some strange new propeller device designed to cut the wires of enemy barrage ballons.

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