She even spoke differently when she was clean, and she was clean now for his departure and her voice clear and rather sharp.

President Andrew Jackson's inauguration signaled a sharp departure from past presidencies.

The RTAA marked a sharp departure from the era of protectionism in the United States.

This was a sharp departure from usual practice, in which the incumbent in a safe seat resigns to allow a newly elected party leader a chance to get into Parliament.

This condemnation of urban capitalist society and materialistic modernity was a sharp departure from his earlier work and label as a folklorist.

* " Creative Studies: A sharp departure from conventional undergraduate education ", 1995, California Higher Education Policy Center

The first issue was a significant departure from Cracked previous incarnation, notably in its sharp reduction of comics and illustrated content.

This was a sharp departure from usual practice, in which the incumbent in a safe seat resigns to allow a newly elected party leader a chance to get into Parliament.

Wiring ran through the ceiling-a sharp departure from other computer labs of the day.

ACT had by this time started billing itself as a natural coalition partner for National -- a sharp departure from Prebble and Douglas ' roots in Labour.

This new status marked a sharp departure from the founding purpose and opened the way for expanding curricular offerings and programs.

The new machine was a sharp departure from the black plastic, curvilinear PowerBook G3 models that preceded it.

The album's electronic-influenced sound was a sharp departure from most of their previous efforts, with more emphasis on synthesizers, drum machines, and processed guitar tones.

Their work was described by J. M. Richards as " sharp in detail, clean in colour, with an odd humour in their marionette-like figures " and " a striking departure from the conventions of mural painting at that time ".

This album marked a sharp and conscious departure from Refused's earlier work.

but this grinning, broken head, not ten feet away from me, was the sharp definition of what my reality had become.

Generally the first salvo of a tsunami is a rather sharp swell, not different enough from an ordinary wave to alarm casual observers.

His thoughts were scattered by the sharp report of a rifle from the other side of the door.

A sharp pain lanced across Nick's chest and a bubble of air escaped from his tortured lungs, joining dozens of others that sailed lazily toward the surface like helium balloons rising into the sky.

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

Christianity depicts a sharp distinction between angels, divine beings created by God before the creation of humanity and are used as messengers, and saints, the souls of humans who have received immortality from the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who dwell in Heaven with God.

They are derived from the characteristics of their spectroscopic lines: sharp, principal, diffuse, and fundamental, the rest being named in alphabetical order ( omitting j ).

In these versions, when Ajax came to the Capharean Rocks on the coast of Euboea, his ship was wrecked in a fierce storm, he himself was lifted up in a whirlwind and impaled with a flash of rapid fire from Athena in his chest, and his body thrust upon sharp rocks, which afterwards were called the rocks of Ajax.

In 1779, he named this part of the air " oxygen " ( Greek for " becoming sharp " because he claimed that the sharp taste of acids came from oxygen ), and the other " azote " ( Greek " no life ").

This is suggested by the sharp and frequent change in dynamics from forte to piano.

Since Lavoisier's knowledge of strong acids was mainly restricted to oxoacids, such as ( nitric acid ) and ( sulphuric acid ), which tend to contain central atoms in high oxidation states surrounded by oxygen, and since he was not aware of the true composition of the hydrohalic acids ( HF, HCl, HBr, and HI ), he defined acids in terms of their containing oxygen, which in fact he named from Greek words meaning " acid-former " ( from the Greek οξυς ( oxys ) meaning " acid " or " sharp " and γεινομαι ( geinomai ) meaning " engender ").

The instrument allows the three-dimensional reconstruction of up to hundreds of millions of atoms from a sharp tip ( corresponding to specimen volumes of 10, 000-1, 000, 000 nm < sup > 3 </ sup >).

Field ion microscopy techniques were initially construed as a modification of field emission, a technique which allows for a stream of electrons to be emitted from a sharp needle when subjected to a sufficiently high electric field (~ 3-6 V / nm ).

The magnification in an atom is due to the projection of ions radially away from the small, sharp tip.

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This design was introduced by Japanese manufacturer Olfa Corporation in 1956 as the world's first snap-off blade and was inspired from analyzing the sharp cutting edge produced when glass is broken and how pieces of a chocolate bar break into segments.

However, Bethlehem suffered from the loss of the pilgrim trade, as there was a sharp decrease of European pilgrims.

Public safety workers have called the walkway safety handrails in the Big Dig tunnels " ginsu guardrails ", because the sharp, squared-off edges of the support posts have caused terrible mutilations and deaths of passengers ejected from crashed vehicles.

This Bengal tiger's sharp teeth and strong jaws are the classical physical traits expected from carnivorous mammalian predator s

Radio observations revealed a sharp increase in continuum emission at a wavelength of 21 cm after the largest impacts, which peaked at 120 % of the normal emission from the planet.

In 1960 the Ishango bone tool was discovered, fashioned from the fibula of a baboon with a sharp piece of quartz affixed to one end, perhaps for engraving.

The scanning tunneling microscope uses quantum tunneling of electrons from a sharp metal tip into the studied material and can produce atomically resolved images of its surface.

In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

Whilst " Koroshi " retains a strong plot-line and sharp characterizations, " Shinda Shima " was a pastiche of contemporary Bond movies.

Girlfriend in a Coma has something of the quality of a fairytale, but it contains a sharp realism that makes the book scarily contemporary " ( 15 May 1999 ).

It was low and sharp, looking more like a contemporary BMW Bavaria than any of its smaller Mazda brothers.

Kaestner became most well known for his poems, which appeared first in print without his consent in 1781 and were notable for their biting humour and sharp irony on different contemporary personalities.

Hong Kong's gourmet Willie Mak, himself a long time friend of Leung, suggests contemporary eateries not to resort to cheap bulk manufactured versions of vinegar, ketchup, and Worcestershire sauce, or the sauce will risk being too sharp in taste and breaking the balance of flavours.

His personal work, Didahiile, was a collection of sermons meant as a sharp critique of contemporary habits and morals ; notably, beside Christian sources, Anthim made reference to classical philosophy.

Hallman's design was a sharp break with the contemporary narrow, dark, and often filthy backyards.

Many contemporary rockers still wear engineer boots or full-length motorcycle boots, but Winklepickers ( sharp pointed shoes ) are no longer common.

The story is a sharp look at contemporary Egyptian life through the prism of a faded downtown Cairo apartment building.

The memorial forms a sharp contrast with both the earlier monuments of the South African War and most contemporary monuments to the First World War.

His search for his abducted mate, Lotus, in America becomes a vehicle for sharp, witty satire of contemporary culture.