A silhouette only works as a portrait when its outlines are sharp-edged.
Nikolas smiled, and picked up a gold, sharp-edged letter opener, studying it in the sunlight.
Slopes and ditches may also be lined with flints, broken glass, agricultural harrows, and similar pointed or sharp-edged objects.
The Maya collected and carved flint using the pointed tips of deer antler to chip out sharp-edged, anthropomorphic figures.
They lash about dangerously with their tails, which are covered with sharp-edged scales.
They were armed with rifles, swords and sharp-edged weapons.
For bee stings, begin by using a clean sharp-edged instrument, like a knife, to scrape out the stinger.
Incisors are the squarish, sharp-edged teeth in the front of the mouth.
Carve the inside using a melon baller or a small sharp-edged spoon, reserving the flesh.
The devotees walk on coals without suffering burns and pierce their bodies with sharp-edged iron rods.
To our left was an alpine glacier dominated by sharp-edged icy pinnacles and to our right were walls of soaring rock.
The sharp-edged steel and concrete I saw the night before looks almost beautiful underneath its crown of clouds.
Sharp-edged geometry and lush abundance - seemingly contradictory elements - share common ground in Kim's garden.
Now unsafe to drive on, it's been replaced by a sharp-edged white concrete ford which looks very square in the water.
Synonyms
keen, razor-sharp, razor-edged
1.1(of words) critical or cutting.
sharp-edged satire
Example sentencesExamples
Although the script delivers sharp-edged dialogue, the movie fails to integrate the supposed cultural conflicts of a cockney colloquial in sun bleached California.
A younger son of an ancient Tory house, he was intellectual, withdrawn and unsociable, seriously high church, sharp-edged in political controversy.
In their eagerness to turn their business dreams into reality, even the most ardent devotees of the truth might be tempted to round off the corners of a few sharp-edged facts or omit a piece of unfavorable data.
The dialogue is characteristically sharp-edged and forthright, but too much is left unsaid as to why characters act as they do.
The new film begins with the former history professor in hospital facing a terminal illness with his customary sharp-edged humour.
It is often thought that moral questions are inherently fuzzy and uncertain while factual questions are concrete and sharp-edged.
The opposing attorneys attack with sharp-edged questions, looking for an opening that will allow them to score an evidentiary point.
Thanks to his sharp-edged radicalism and unique poetic gifts, Dylan refreshed the protest genre and helped it reach a new mass audience.
Presumably concerned about how his sharp-edged words might appear in print, Clark offered helpful stage directions.
Maybe in her depression over this loss she's a little more sharp-edged than usual.