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“He could see any blob of clay and imagine a sculpture,” praises former President Clinton, whose 2005 memoir, “My Life,” benefited from Gottlieb’s well-sharpened HB No.2 pencil.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2022

But while personal magnetism is without a doubt among Macheath’s primary characteristics, Mr. Park doesn’t suggest that there is much well-sharpened cutlery underneath it.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2014

Her best number, Java Mondaine, is a Gallic shrug at a titled ancestor "who put his head on a well-sharpened guillotine."

From Time Magazine Archive

With a well-sharpened carving knife, slice the steaks or fillets at a 30-degree angle, moving perpendicular to the grain of the muscle�this prevents the flesh from falling apart.

From Time Magazine Archive

I touched his tongue with a well-sharpened lead-pencil, and the effect was subitaneous; more so than on either the lips or the lumbar region.

From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by Landor, A. H. Savage