unblunted

Everything that had been happening to them—the threatening letters, the lost essay, being locked in the library, the nuts in the muffin, the unblunted sword, the burglary—was designed to make them fail.

KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010

Everything that had been happening to them—the threatening letters, the lost essay, being locked in the library, the nuts in the muffin, the unblunted sword, the burglary—was designed to make them fail.

KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010

First the letters, then the library, then the nuts in the muffin, and now the unblunted sword.

KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010

First the letters, then the library, then the nuts in the muffin, and now the unblunted sword.

KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010

Together, it's Strauss and Hofmannsthal; apart, and I am not sure that I have been impressed with either of them though Steinman's wit and style is unblunted.

Meat Loaf, Music, and Kultur Patrick J. Smith 2006

Together, it's Strauss and Hofmannsthal; apart, and I am not sure that I have been impressed with either of them though Steinman's wit and style is unblunted.

Archive 2006-12-01 Patrick J. Smith 2006

They also share a moderate fuck-the-system streak as yet unblunted by the Fox windfall.

Will Success Spoil MySpace.com? 2006

I quote: the novella is a perfect length for a science fiction story: long enough to enable you to flesh out the details of a strange alien world or a bizarre future society, to give such a setting some depth, complexity, and heft...and yet, still short enough for the story to pack a real punch, some power and elegance and bite, unblunted and unobscured by padding.

Modern Classic Short Novels of SF adamosf 2005

I quote: the novella is a perfect length for a science fiction story: long enough to enable you to flesh out the details of a strange alien world or a bizarre future society, to give such a setting some depth, complexity, and heft...and yet, still short enough for the story to pack a real punch, some power and elegance and bite, unblunted and unobscured by padding.

Archive 2005-12-01 adamosf 2005

And yet, not in her words, perhaps, but in her voice, in her face, in her attitude, there were signs of a soft brooding spirit, of a sensibility unblunted and profound, playing over her thoughts and deeds, and investing her manner with an habitual gentleness.

Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf 2004