bracing
Example Sentences
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Ms. Millet is efficient and empathetic in her prose, but her message—that we must reckon with environmental catastrophe and our own moral complacency—blows through this novel like its own bracing storm.
That means stable interest revenue at a time when shareholders are bracing for falling rates.
From Barron's
“I don’t want to,” I said, bracing myself for a fight so familiar I could have it in my sleep.
From Literature
Investors were bracing for futures to start trading later today, with the price of crude oil expected to jump in reaction to the outbreak of conflict in Iran this weekend.
From Barron's
Jessie Homer French has been painting folk-inflected scenes of environmental catastrophe for decades, but her consistent message and style remain bracingly fresh in the presentation by Various Small Fires.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
