Quotes About Brushed

U]npleasant truths are hastily and nonchalantly brushed aside, as if by so doing the truth could be abolished.

He brushed away the thunder, then the clouds, then the colossal illusion of heaven. Yet still the sky was blue.

It seemed to be a law of society that hair must be parted and brushed.

The porter lowered his head, and the other children exchanged nervous looks. It was clear this lady intimidated them all too. With a flick of her hand, Matron brushed the porter aside, and he stumbled a little to steady himself. "Let me look at this bump," she said as she peered over the boy. "Mmm, yes, that is a nasty bump. You should have an X-ray first thing in the morning." The porter rolled his eyes at Tom, but once again the boy didn't react.

It was so fun to see my hair all brushed out - it looked like caramel-flavored cotton candy!

You know what I keep wondering?" Miranda's tone went even more serious. "I keep wondering if all those spirits think I'm the one who's lost." That not-quite-smile brushed his lips. "We're all a little lost. We're all trying to find something.

It was when her fingers brushed something strange that a thread of that contentment,that ease,retreated.It was something she hadn´t noticed before.

Jackson brushed the sweep of his gaze along the flat horizon, and thought that he liked her voice. It was musical, soothing as the sound of Irish.

I'm not a fan of chrome wheels. I sort of like brushed, brushed steel, more European style.

The opportunities for black cultures need to change and we need to get more culture in higher positions in football, because I think the racism that happens on football fields hasn't been addressed properly and it's been brushed under the carpet.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

They met where their edges brushed in one of the voids in the world's great Tinkertoy structure.

Through the resistance of their wardrobes, fingers brushed.

A voice like brushed silk, and there would be no mistaking this one for his own, or for that of Mehiel.

She reached into the shadows, groping toward Morgan's cottage, and felt as if her fingers brushed slick, opaque ice.

Stevenson's last year at Edinburgh University must have just about coincided with my first one, and Barrie must have been in that grey old nest of learning about the year 1876. Strange to think that I probably brushed elbows with both of them in the crowded portal.

The kitchen was the kind of brushed steel monstrosity that looks more like it's designed to weaponise viruses than cook dinner.

What's with the hair today?" He pokes it for good measure. "I was tired this morning." "Uh-huh. I can tell. You look like you brushed it with a fork." "Worked for Ariel." "Doesn't work for you.

Far too many incidents are simply brushed under the carpet, as it is much easier to hold meetings and presentations than support those teachers below them who are trying to improve discipline.

all of [her] is brushed with light, so much glare she seems to singe the very tissue of remembrance. — C.K. Williams, from "Combat," Poems 1963-1983 (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1988)

The cycle repeated itself at inconsistent intervals, creating invisible eddies that brushed against him like fountains of roiling water.

Bending over, she brushed her hair for maximum Farrah volume, then sprayed it with enough Aqua Net to stop a bug in flight.

Camille brushed by Jem, hardly looking at him, and Will followed, pausing only long enough to mutter "She doesn't smell like anything" to Jem under his breath. Jem looked alarmed. "You've been smelling her?

Every morning, therefore, uncle Charles repaired to his outhouse but not before he had greased and brushed scrupulously his back hair and brushed and put on his tall hat.