A few sharp strokes, however, soon shivered it to fragments, many of which had pieces of paper sticking to them.

Both up strokes and down strokes very sharp, about twenty lines in all.

Winter paints the Newfoundland landscape, its people and the business of their lives with sharp, simple - and beautiful - strokes.

They took care of their wounded, all right-with quick, sharp, sword strokes.

He tried a few more sharp, downward strokes, again with no other result than a dull clink.

Three minutes later it was a fairly sharp vertical stroke of light.

His- wings were like knife blades as they stabbed the air with quick, sharp strokes.

A sharp stroke, but one which missed the bone, it pinned The Shadow to the wall.

His eyes were hard and full of hate; words came like the sharp strokes of a scalpel.

Movies tend to fill in details of plot and personality with sharp, quick strokes.