0 a tendon (= strong piece of tissue in the body connecting a muscle to a bone)
1 a strong cord of muscle found in meat; a tendon
By focussing on head, hands, legs, organs, sinew, flesh, and face, etc., the natural wisdoms traffic in the inferior realm.
But how does this play out in the very sinews of the texts themselves + above and beyond character depiction, plot construction, etc.?
It has entered too much into the blood and sinews of education and the media here.
Yet even when it came to ' sinew and muscle ' there were synergies between suburban and working-class toryism.
It is not only fat and feathers which have been produced, but a good deal of sinew too.
The second main line of criticism which has been advanced in the last six days concerns finance—the sinew of all government, both national and local.
Just as bullion was said to be the sinew of war, money is certainly the sinew of the arts.
They stiffen the sinews and summon up the blood, but they only emulate the action of the paper tiger.