scissor
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While it has been directed with careful attention to shaping its emotional arc by Tim Jackson, “Two Strangers” might have amplified its charms with a few snips of the scissors.
Johnny Depp, making another appearance in this book, plays the title character, “born” with scissors for hands, who comes down from his castle to live with the kindhearted Boggs family.
From Salon
Not even 180 seconds on the clock, and he connected with a ball seven, eight, or nine feet in the air - depending on who you ask - to scissor kick Scotland into the lead.
From BBC
He approached the draft version of “The Waste Land” by Eliot with a pair of scissors, and returned with modernism’s emblem.
"The way we use a pair of scissors is quite mind-blowing when you think about it," Mr Walker says.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
