Hilary Mantel

Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.

English Writer

Andrew Jackson

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

American President

Buddha

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Leader

Countee Cullen

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

American Poet

Ingmar Bergman

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

Swedish Director

Alphonse de Lamartine

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

French Poet

Izaak Walton

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

George Farquhar

Irish Dramatist

Thomas Fuller

English Clergyman

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Roman Statesman

Sinew mainly refers to parts inside the body, so it's used in medical or biological contexts.

Physical Anatomy

Used metaphorically, 'sinew' can describe anything that gives support like a tendon does.

Metaphor for Strength

In descriptions, 'sinew' conveys toughness and the ability to endure strain.

Physical Resilience

Sinew, as a metaphor, suggests something vital for health or success.

Symbol of Vitality

Used figuratively, 'sinew' signals integral support or the main source of strength in a system.

Figurative Strength

It implies the underlying factor or essential component that enables success.

Essence of Success

 clearing out all this of actual tissues just a bag of skin over those bones what would happen in the world what we're gonna do now is introduce some beetles domestic beetles and also knows louder beetles okay so time for the beetles let's go on they like the stage of try decay that's when they come in when the maggots ship and they should really strip any bits of sinew on those bones

Monitor Lizard...

 you have, you said it's called a lance, correct? That's a lance I'm holding, yeah. And you also have the war bridle -tell me-- -And the war bridle you got to be a pretty experienced rider to to have that... it's made out of raw hide. It's like a the back of the sinew of the buffalo, that's what that is and

Erika Larsen: People of...

 When young Jean-Michael was hit by a car, his mother brought a copy of "Grey’s Anatomy" to his hospital bed. It ignited a lifelong fascination with anatomy that manifested in the skulls, sinew and guts of his later work – which frequently explores both the power and vulnerability of marginalized bodies.

The chaotic brilliance...

 most of it yet she is busy chewing I think what she's doing she's not looking for the skin really or the further she's eating most of the meat out of the body of the animal and then it gets to sort of furry places where she's trying to get some sinew and maybe some meaty bits art and

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 to suit the distinct diets of different species. Cows have flat molar teeth with parallel ridges for grinding tough grasses. Cats have sharp crested molars, like blades, for shearing meat and sinew. Pigs have blunt, thick ones, useful for crushing hard roots and seeds.

How did teeth evolve? -...

 Think about knowing that over time. And it's a new cumulative pressure on leaders. And you have to watch and take care of each other. I probably learned the most about relationships. I learned they are the sinew which hold the force together.

Stanley McChrystal:...

 If there is a sinew in our family, it runs through the women. Given who we were and how life had shaped us, we can now see that the men that might have come into our lives would have thwarted us. Defeat would have come too easily.

Tan Le: My immigration...

 the Dwarves. Rather than metal, they sought the rarest ingredients; from feline footsteps and fish breath to the sinews of mountains and mighty bears. With these, the Dwarves crafted Gleipnir,

The myth of Loki’s...

 Now, making war -- this is something that we are good at. We humans have been making war since before we were even fully human. And since then, we have gone from using stone and sinew

We train soldiers for...

 the whole group is here the sinews were just such good news I mean the whole family is kind of

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Metaphor for Strength

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