| I want everything I write of it to be true, hard-edged where it needs to be, bitter, sweet, bitter-sweet. |
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| If you are using a hard-edged alpha mask on a high-resolution picture, consider using a clipping path instead. |
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| And rather than an abstract expression of goodwill and warm intentions, it's an overwhelmingly practical, hard-edged consideration. |
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| As much as mediation and hard-edged political negotiations, they are essential to build conditions for sustainable development and lasting peace. |
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| All is heightened by John Seitz's hard-edged cinematography, best appreciated on our theatrical big screen. |
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| The design team replaced the hard-edged walls of the existing building with gracefully curved walls in the main corridor. |
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| His hard-edged geometric paintings on diamond-shaped canvases were inspired by artists such as Piet Mondrian and Josef Albers. |
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| It's a little as if each hard-edged shape in her precisely chaotic canvases were a piece extracted from an entirely different jigsaw puzzle. |
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| The stuccoed end facing the intersecting neighborhood street combines with feathery pennisetum grasses to soften the hard-edged look. |
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| Through the interstitial spaces of those rows, segments of the winding hard-edged lines can be seen. |
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| The two detectives are a hard-edged tough guy and a showboating, overconfident rookie. |
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| First, it replaces an apparently hard-edged mandatory obligation by an obviously difficult judgmental decision. |
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| His reductive abstract style, while increasingly planar and hard-edged, remained connected to aspects of the observed world. |
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| If you like hard-edged electro, vocoders, and house beats then you will find something neat here without any shadow of a doubt. |
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| His love of life stands in sharp positive contrast to their hard-edged hatefulness and humorless, rigid work ethic. |
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| It was impossible not to overhear the hard-edged voice from the next room stridently singing the praises of men wearing khaki. |
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| In hard-edged artificial light, the dancers enact feverish beach parties, orgies, murders, and seductions. |
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| Eager, with high hopes, I soon felt the jolt of dashed expectations and hard-edged reality. |
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| Soon the room would be filled with the American musician's hard-edged acoustic blues, his bottleneck slide guitar riffs and harsh vocals cutting through the night. |
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| Copland's populism represented a voluntary retreat from hard-edged modernism in an attempt to reach a wider public at a time of economic hardship. |
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| His style becomes generally less lyrical, more angular and hard-edged. |
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| Formally, Cameron Martin's sleekly distilled, medium-large landscapes have a flattened, hard-edged cyber-Pop snap. |
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| His rough, fuzzy backgrounds and crisp, hard-edged beats have a ragged beauty that shines through all the tape static and lo-fi murk of his recordings. |
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| But the change of location was not born of a wish to give the hard-edged crime drama and exotic touch but more a flight of fancy. |
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| Inspired by his images of the French Riviera, she shifted from soft, flirty summer dresses to hard-edged pieces like her black jersey tank and white skirt. |
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| Using a primarily black-and-white palette, the work has stylish punk sheen that evokes rebellion through its cold, hard-edged rejection of sentiment. |
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| Los Angeles-based System of a Down's music has been described as combining elements of goth and funk with hard-edged music that appeals to younger fans and lyrics that attract the 20-somethings. |
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| Corporate social responsibility is a hard-edged business decision. |
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| Also, you can use QuarkXPress Picture Effects to blur the edges of your channel non-destructively if you find that it looks too hard-edged on a particular page or at a particular scale. |
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| The instruments for monetary policy, the single market, and the stability pact are hard-edged laws, with money in abundance, sanctions, binding deadlines, monitoring bodies and much, much more. |
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| Crispian is still singing about mystical revolutions and the band still produce a hard-edged, psychedelic rock. |
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| Avoid using hard-edged bed frames or sharp-cornered bedside tables. |
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| Alongside the hard-edged modern, the zippiness and cheek was the return to droopiness, Pre-Raphaelite soulfulness and the renewed quest for spiritual values and perfection of making. |
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| The Tory manifesto tomorrow has been redesigned to soften its image, if not the content of its hard-edged spending cuts, while Labour moves the other way, toughening up its tone on fiscal responsibility. |
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| In the world of writing, many people crave hard-edged, unbendable advice. |
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| News director Randy Dixon billed the show as more hard-edged and newsier than before. |
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| They combined hard-edged steel cabinet and appliance surfaces with rich, warm, buttery yellow marble for the center island and the backsplash. |
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| With songs like Holy Roller Novocaine, the band show that being born into the church can inspire hard-edged rock 'n' roll. |
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| As Erasmus would find, the king and his advisers had a hard-edged attitude to scholarship that was worlds away from the enquiring dilettantism of Eltham. |
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| Hard-edged surfaces can make bathrooms seem cold and austere. |
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