rough-hew

It also engages the idea that some things may be hard-wired into our blood, echoing Hamlet’s phrase about how there’s a “divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2016

But destiny that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will, had made up its mind for further revelations, and against destiny even Doctor Frank was powerless.

From Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

Every man had the right to rough-hew his own life.

From Swirling Waters by Max Rittenberg

But "there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will."

From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Edwin Waugh

He must believe, with Tennyson, in a "far off divine event, toward which the whole creation moves," or with Shakespeare when he said "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will."

From Church Cooperation in Community Life by Paul L. (Paul Leroy) Vogt

Columbus, a rough-hewed industrial town, had a sizable Black population, as well as Black schools, churches and businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

When Henderson was designing the living room of his Hillsdale house, he painted the wall paneling a greenish gray, but left the original rough-hewed wood posts and beams unfinished for their rich visual character.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

The Los Angeles depicted in “This Fool” was a rough-hewed paradise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

Mr. Badalamenti’s name conjured the image of an old-world maestro, but he was in fact a wisecracking, golf-playing grandfather with a rough-hewed Brooklyn burr.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2022

Across from them an aged Hillman sat in a rough-hewed, high-backed chair.

From Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Charles Goff Thomson

The powers of nature are now otherwise employed than in rough-hewing the surface of the globe.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various

A simpler solution seems to be to assign the rough-hewing of the entire project of Cynthia, and its partial accomplishment, to the term of Ralegh's short occultation in 1589.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

Quarrying, as I have said, implied cutting out and rough-hewing blocks exactly of the right dimensions for certain portions of a building or a piece of statuary.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds

But he had the greatest confidence in his rough-hewing common sense.

From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett

While I was rough-hewing the block, I made a model.

From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by John Addington Symonds

That’s the rough-hewn appeal of the movie in a couple of lines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

That forebear was a 1961 pop-up where the artist made and sold his own rough-hewn goods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The biggest hits sand down the rough-hewn edges of Mama’s metaphorical front porch to up their resale value, perhaps never funnier than Luke Bryan’s bullet-point summer vacation on “Fish, Hunt, Golf, Drink.”

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

The Fitzwilliam Museum’s moving “War Craft” exhibition memorializes a unique popular art, rough-hewn from found objects and made by men killing time in the field or, afterward, as souvenirs of survival.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

I prefer it here in the mostly unconsidered rooms of the basement, the stone walls rough-hewn, damp, ill lighted like any memory.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee