chiselled
Speech parts
1. chiselled - Adjective
2. chiselled - Verb
Derived from chisel
Meaning
of Chisel
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Examples
I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.
Critics, you have been so kind, I would not have you think me blind To all the wisdom that you preach; Yet before I strictlier run In straiter lines of chiselled speech, Give me one more hour, just one Hour to hunt the fairy gleam That flutters through this childish dream.
People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.
...his chiselled style was an amalgamation of the very best in the tradition of Hindustani classical music, nay music in its fullness, a musical inheritance that goes back to the all-time greats like a Thansen, a Tyagaraja or a Beethoven.
Elsewhere a giant military ship appears out of the darkness while the chiselled faces of its sailor are displayed in front of it.
Max Beerbohm described it as littered with "chiselled apophthegms—witticisms unrelated to action or character", of which he found half a dozen to be of the highest order.