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hard-edged

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hard-edged (härdjd)
adj.
Inclined to hold a position; severe: "In those magazine pieces the children were splendidly self-willed, hard-edged, perverse, indomitable" (Alice Munro).
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hard-edged [ˈhɑːdˈedʒd] ADJ (fig) [style, story] → contundente, duro


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But this is far from a hard-edged minimalist approach as Sally explains: "Colours, materials, handicraft and recycling will all add up to a comfortable happy habitat.
As the return of Brian Eno to the production team promises, No Line is long on his signature moody atmospherics and astral blips and bleeps, and there's enough hard-edged dance rock ("Put on Your Boots" and "Stand Up Comedy") to maintain interest.
Li Lin Lee's recent paintings are certainly formulaic--each of the sixtyeight paintings shown here is made of oil, wax, and alkyd on plastercoated burlap mounted onto canvas; each is sixteen by twelve inches and is presented edge-to-edge in a horizontal group of four, creating seventeen works in all; and each is structured around some overt geometric shape or hard-edged pattern that Lee paints onto a richly scumbled and muted monochromatic field.
 
 
 
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