Garrison Keillor

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

American Writer

Hope Jahren

Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed or goes nowhere. One pollen grain either enters a stigma or it falls upon stony ground. An ovum is either fertilized or the whole project stalls out.

American Scientist

Walter Gropius

The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

German Architect

Alice Oswald

Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.

British Poet

Emma Walton Hamilton

Stony Brook is a phenomenal university and I am proud to be affiliated with it, so it is gratifying to be able to support this wonderful institution in whatever way I can.

British Author

Theodore Dreiser

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

American Novelist

G-Dragon

Stony Skunk, when they were with our company, had a song which I personally like called 'Red Light District.

South Korean Musician

Chanakya

God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Indian Politician

Katie Hopkins

There are times this stony heart of mine feels a burst of British pride.

English Entertainer

Horst Koehler

If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.

German Statesman

Used to describe someone's demeanor as unresponsive or indifferent, often during emotional situations.

Emotional Coldness

'Stony silence' implies a heavy, deep silence that is often uncomfortable or tense.

Intensity of Silence

In storytelling, 'stony' can heighten the sense of conflict or seriousness in a character's reaction.

Used for Drama

Used to create a vivid picture of an area covered with stones, often in nature writing or descriptions.

Visual Imagery

Metaphorically, 'stony' can describe a challenge, making a journey or task seem harder.

Difficult Terrain

Describes actual stones in a place, used in geography, geology, or travel writing.

Literal Descriptions

Signifies a strong or stubborn emotional state, resistant to change or persuasion.

Emotional Resilience

'Stony' describes someone's impervious reaction to emotional appeals or events, not easily moved.

Impassiveness

Can be used to imply a person's deliberately cold behavior to intimidate or assert control.

Intimidating Demeanor

 most skilled preparator I have ever had the pleasure of meeting these are people who actually remove grain by grain and don't go mad as they're doing it and the the encasing matrix that surrounds fossils the man is an artist because he can release these fossils from their stony tombs in a way that we can actually see what they look like and

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 and de-fleshed by a multitude of bacteria, worms and insects, its bones underwent a brief metamorphosis, exchanging molecules with the groundwater and becoming more and more like the entombing rock. As layer upon layer of sediment accumulated, pressure from all sides weighed in like a stony glove

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 in orbit around the sun. So every point in this visualization that you can see is a real asteroid. Its orbit has been calculated from its motion across the sky. The colors reflect the composition of these asteroids, dry and stony in the center,

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 allowing them to consume every bit of seaweed covering a stony surface. This helps parrotfish reach seaweed other fish can’t consume, while simultaneously clearing out open space for new corals to settle and existing colonies to expand.

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 Did you land on the rim, down at the bottom? It was down on the bottom. And I came back afterward on the sled of the helicopter back. But it was too stony and full of cactus on top. That's exactly why I asked the question.

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 study them and so i set out from long island i was at stony brook and drove down the east coast and we just would pull into a town and then we would ask where the skaters were and you could go into any

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 been seen across the northern conservancies and he's been observed seven times so far he's a real ham he's been named stony by Pat Derby who runs

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 The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

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 couldn't resist that sorry it's not too bad I promise alright let's fasten biology there's a stony silence from the final

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 stony canyons provide a sanctuary for animals throughout the Middle East like