splintery
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Mr. Sarris has fashioned for her a rough-hewn, splintery narrative voice, her English “a mess of high and low and everything in between.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
"While it too often sands the complications off what you sense should feel like an uncomfortably splintery issue, in its best moments, it's a quietly fearsome piece of drama," wrote the Telegraph's Robbie Collin.
From BBC ● May 31, 2023
We ascended the Santa Monica Pier’s weather-eaten, splintery steps and walked to the end and back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2021
The result — a covers record riddled with the flubs and inventions of forgetfulness — was a jumble of intricate syncopations, vertiginous time changes and splintery guitar work.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2017
They were sturdily attached by metal collars to the splintery boards of the dock.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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