Francis Spufford

What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it's anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God bringing out the puncture repair kit, re-inflating the tires, taking off the rust, making us roadworthy once more. Not so that we can take flight into ecstasy, but so that we can do the next needful mile of our lives.

English Author

Steven Stucky

Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.

American Composer

Dawn Foster

I've read enough dreary campus novels to know more than I ever wanted to about the punctured Oxbridge academic psyche, and feel as if I've been through a mid-life crisis dozens of times, purely because I've foolishly grabbed a paperback by an author I've vaguely heard of.

British Journalist

Martin Parr

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

British Photographer

James Ellroy

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

American Writer

Virginia Woolf

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

British Author

Hal Needham

I've broken fifty-six bones, broke my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth.

American Director

Jeremy Irons

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

English Actor

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

Indian Entertainer

Tom Bergeron

I work best when people are here to puncture me.

American Celebrity

Often used when talking about problems or damage, especially in everyday items like tires.

Usage Frequency

Primarily refers to tangible items, not abstract concepts or virtual entities.

Physical Objects

A puncture is usually something you can see or find upon close inspection.

Visual Identification

Often happens by accident, and care should be taken to avoid it.

Unintentional Action

Emphasizes the action that leads to the state of having a puncture.

Cause and Effect

Often associated with car or bike maintenance and repair scenarios.

Vehicle Related

Learning about puncture can help understand discussions about what to do in case of flat tires.

Emergency Preparedness

Can be used figuratively to describe emotional or psychological effects.

Metaphorical Use

Conveys a strong negative impact on someone's emotions or ego.

Emotional Impact

 it turned out that the common fishermen caught one or two each year but they didn't value them highly their flesh wasn't particularly tasty they said and only their huge rough scales were useful excellent for rubbing down the inner tubes of bicycles before mending a puncture but to the

Sir David Attenborough...

 slowly the rover driving speed is like this so it takes a while to get places and we've had a little bit of challenges along the way so the rover wheels aren't supposed to have holes this big in them pointy rocks have been puncturing our wheels and

What rocks on Mars can...

 It reveals the injustice for what it is instead of pretending otherwise, and it punctures the incredible pressure balloon that our high school kids are now living under. So why is it that this perfectly reasonable proposal, if I do say so myself,

What role does luck play...

 mean death Carlos tries not to think about the soup of bacteria he's swimming in including tetanus typhoid and cholera his suit protects him but it is an armor a sharp puncture could wreak havoc our skin also you have to get to the hospital

Sewer Diver Loves His...

 you're about to see it too if you've got the courage to keep watching if only through your splayed fingers the octopus not in the habit of attacking sharks the shark sharp spines jutting out from its dorsal fins that can puncture anything

Octopus Kills Shark PIPE...

Shark vs Octopus PIPE...

 making way for support wagons following each machine. Even at top speed, work had to proceed carefully. The chalk layer followed a winding path between unstable rock and clay, punctured by over 100 boring holes made by previous surveyors.

How the world's longest...

 It helps explain why physical processes go one way and not the why ice melts, why cream spreads in coffee, why air leaks out of a punctured tire. It's entropy, and it's notoriously difficult to wrap our heads around.

What is entropy? - Jeff...

 can be death Carlos tries not to think about the soup of bacteria he's swimming in including tetanus typhoid and cholera his suit protects him but it is an armor a sharp puncture could wreak havoc it is

Sewer Diving PIPE National...

 So tell us what we're really looking at there. I still love it. So what you're seeing is that last orbit of photons. You're seeing Einstein's geometry laid bare. The puncture in space-time is so deep

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