• The other a jagged line, like the edge of a steak knife.

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  • We pull onto a dirt road through a sunflower field, heading towards the abyss, and find the jagged shoreline and a lonely parking lot.

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  • Peel back this pedestrian top line figure, and what you'll see is a jagged landscape of booms and busts.

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  • The young Zar Gul (a wonderfully understated performance from the director's son, Babar) learns the values of poetry and marksmanship on majestic, jagged hillsides under a cobalt sky.

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  • One blurry image from an Air Force tracking station in New Mexico, taken about a minute before the shuttle disintegrated, shows what some observers have interpreted as a jagged leading edge on the left wing.

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  • As of publication time, the video is 20 minutes long and includes a range of hilarious and agonizing screams, including a screaming goat and a climber standing atop a jagged pinnacle, howling in triumph.

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  • The island of Sicily has some sensational coastlines of its own, but slip across to the seven Aeolian islands a short boat ride away and you are into otherworldly territory, part of a jagged volcanic ridge.

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  • Nearby, a lean, angular Schmidt-Rottluff nude from 1914 awkwardly folds herself into a schematic landscape, as if aspiring to become one of the Demoiselles d'Avignon, while a jagged Kirchner streetscape, 1912-14, offers yet another creative transformation of Cubist notions.

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  • Like the late Ralph Shapey, Mincek has a knack for etching jagged figures so cleanly that they take on a sculptural quality.

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  • And it was he who finally found a way through Ramdin, with a ball that jagged down the hill.

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  • The researchers tried three ideas: a single tungsten tip, an array of silicon tips, and a film containing jagged fragments of synthetic diamond, whose sharp angles acted as tips.

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  • Home is no less fraught: Uxbal is an adoring, manners-correcting father to Ana (Hanaa Bouchaib) and Mateo (Guillermo Estrella), but his estranged wife, Marambra (Maricel Alvarez), is a ruin, jagged with drink, who cannot be trusted with the kids.

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  • Working from a one-to-twenty scale polystyrene model, the designer worked closely with an engineering team, including two traditional stone-carvers, in making a vast, jagged construction that, bolted to the walls and secured by steel cables, interweaved gracefully in and out of the shop windows, and loomed above the pavement.

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  • The Museum of Modern Art's "Flame" (c. 1934-38), for example, is a precursor to all-over abstraction, with its jagged orange, black and white slashes that represent a raging fire.

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  • The fourth side was partly closed by a high wall, surmounted by jagged edges of broken glass set firmly in old lime plaster, and pierced in its center by a wide entrance-way.

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  • There's nothing especially original in the Artic Monkeys' music, but they perform it with a swagger, the jagged edges deliberately intact.

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  • Perhaps a fairer match for the new course would be against eight-year-old Cape Kidnappers in New Zealand, which runs along and around ridges on a secluded stretch of jagged coastline.

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  • Videogame designer Brenda Brathwaite--a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design known for her work on games such as "Def Jam: Icon" and "Jagged Alliance"--says a game about consolidation in the videogame industry would have to pivot from one genre to another.

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  • It was the equivalent, if not of burning Thornfield Hall to the ground, then at least of ripping down the paper which Mr Hague had spent a year laying over its most jagged cracks.

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  • None of his bandmates really knew how to play their instruments either, but his scratchy guitar style was a perfect match for Pylon's jagged rhythms and art-damaged dance beats.

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  • But while the country's stunning beaches, jagged mountains and lush vineyards have long served as a backdrop for films, as well as TV adverts, Cape Town Film Studios is now aiming to make South Africa a major destination for both location filming and top-quality studio productions.

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  • Swimming along the edge of a reef wall, vast shoals flit at jagged angles around each other.

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  • For the Welsh examining board, the WJEC, those jagged edges look very much today like the horns of a dilemma.

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  • Set in a monumental amphitheatre of peaks, ridges and jagged stone bluffs, it's far more rugged than the sweeping farmlands at Appenzell.

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