knife-edged
Example Sentences
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“I’m so sorry, so sorry,” Verlaine sings, offering a desperate apology amid a crossfire of guitars and drums — knife-edged single notes, barbed lines, implacable offbeats — that don’t promise any forgiveness.
From New York Times
If I thought there would be a knife-edged clarity to the return to the theater, as though I could walk in the door of my childhood home and pick up right where I left off, the warm mug still on the table where I left it — I was mistaken.
From New York Times
A Liberal candidate also has a knife-edged lead over the Conservative incumbent in an Edmonton riding, though that race is still too close too call.
From BBC
They are anvil-heavy and knife-edged, and as they teeter on that windowsill, you face two, equally plausible, life-warping paths: murdering someone below or ending your shins forever.
From New York Times
Knife-edged landscapes shaped by those implacable forces are prominent in Anthes’s pictures, but his fundamental subject is light.
From Washington Post
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