(n.) A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge.
(v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock.
(v. t.) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
(v. i.) To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frosty … Rafe Spall in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.
(2) He was a much smaller man than Tim Spall but I decided not to worry about that.” Dick Pope was honoured at Cannes with a technical award for his cinematography for bringing the paintings to life: the film is filled with Turneresque colour: rose, amber, palest blue… “It’s interesting,” Leigh says, “that this is the first full-length film we have made with a digital camera.
(3) His first spell there, while successful, was dotted with rows with players – especially Rivaldo – and his second spall was something of a disaster.
(4) He takes the title role in this comedy about divorced dad Rafe Spall’s attempts to find Santa’s lost reindeer, bust the big fellow from prison after a run-in with the authorities and thereby save Christmas.
(5) Spall's performance has been much celebrated for its emotional depth, despite Turner's vocabulary in the film often consisting of grunts, snorts and spitting saliva onto the canvas.
(6) It is, perhaps, strange that after all they have been through, the Spalls should have chosen so strenuous – and potentially hazardous – a pastime.
(7) Thus to see Timothy Spall in Mr Turner mindlessly attacking a badly painted oil sketch was a painful experience for those that love and study art, spoiling for me what otherwise was a beautifully shot and constructed film.
(8) There was nothing for the hottest Broadway ticket of last year, a revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal directed by Mike Nicholls and starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall.
(9) Timothy Spall deservedly won the best actor award at Cannes this year for his portrayal of the painter JMW Turner as a kind of intermittently tender warthog.
(10) Julianne Moore was named best actress for her performance as a demented Hollywood diva in David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, while Britain's Timothy Spall won the best actor prize for his grunting, growling masterclass as marine painter JMW Turner in Mike Leigh's period drama Mr Turner .
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Timothy Spall stars in the forthcoming Mr Turner, directed by Mike Leigh Photograph: Allstar Picture Library “The skies over Thanet are the loveliest in all Europe,” he wrote of the area around Margate, where he painted more than 100 oils and watercolours.
(12) However, Spall, 57, has been painting for a decade, mostly canvases of anguished angels.
(13) He reckons Mr Turner will take the Palme d'Or, the Dardennes brothers socialist drama Two Days, One Night will have the second place Grand Prix, and Timothy Spall will be shut out of best actor by Channing Tatum or Steve Carell, both in Foxcatcher.
(14) But there is strong competition from Leviathan, a Russian epic inspired by the Book of Job and full of barbed digs at the Moscow administration, and from Mike Leigh's artist biopic Mr Turner, starring Timothy Spall.
(15) The costume drama, Leigh's first since his depiction of the eccentric Gilbert and Sullivan partnership in Topsy-Turvy, will star Timothy Spall as the enigmatic painter, with Marion Bailey, Dorothy Atkinson and Paul Jesson in supporting roles.
(16) Peter Bradshaw on Mr Turner – Timothy Spall dazzles as JMW Turner
(17) Turner is played by Timothy Spall , who has already received the Cannes best actor award for a tremendous and disconcerting performance.
(18) Notable names missing include Daniel Radcliffe, rave-reviewed for The Cripple of Inishmaan, Denzel Washington (A Raisin in the Sun) and the hottest Broadway ticket of last year, a revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal directed by Mike Nicholls and starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Timothy Spall, who ‘had an amateur notion of doodling’ had to study painting to prepare for his role in Mr Turner.
(20) Since Tim Spall had agreed to be in it by then and he's not what one would call svelte ... [Laughter] ... it pointed me in the direction where my imagination could get going with things that are an ongoing preoccupation.