Barkha Dutt

Grief, like Covid-19, mutates and escapes the inoculation of both time and the reassurance of loving friends. It is less sledgehammer and more screwdriver, drilling little holes in your head and heart, leaving you haunted by the ifs and buts of your decisions.

Indian Journalist

Eliot Schrefer

The College Board is both in the business of test administration and test prep. If this feels inherently unfair, it should - it's like a doctor whacking your knee with a sledgehammer and then offering to patch you up.

American Author

David Harbour

Social media should be more like a cocktail party than anything else. You can have your fun jokes, and you can also express yourself and your beliefs. It's a conversation, not a sledgehammer.

American Actor

Peter Lerangis

SOPA has been described as hitting a carpet tack with a sledgehammer. But technology was a sledgehammer to the music industry, one that allowed digital distributors like Apple to grow rich.

Peter Capaldi

The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.

Scottish Actor

Tom Perez

When my grandchildren ask, 'Where were you when Donald Trump took a sledgehammer to Lady Liberty?' I want to make sure I can tell them I was there protecting America.

American Politician

Denis Lawson

A big moment for me came when 'Singin' in the Rain' came out. It hit me like a sledgehammer - that's what I wanted to do.

Katharine Hepburn

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

American Actress

Seamus Heaney

To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there.

Irish Poet

Watkin Tudor Jones

Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.

South African Musician

Sledgehammer signifies the need for physical effort due to its weight and size.

Physical Strength

Used for destruction, a sledgehammer breaks things rather than builds.

Destruction Tool

When used as a verb, it implies forceful emphasis or action.

Metaphorical Force

As a verb, it's colloquial and may sound too intense in formal situations.

Colloquially Intense

Figuratively, it can criticize an action as too extreme for a situation.

Excessive Response

It suggests strong, sometimes bullying, tactics to achieve a goal.

Pressurized Tactics

 - My first cut, not my best work. But now that I've learned how to cut the boundaries in the concrete, the second step is to remove it. Time to show this slab what I'm made of. - We'll start you with a sledgehammer. When doing this job, when you're trimming up concrete, you want to work your way out of a corner. Just line it up, and then all you got.

What is Selective...

 which suggested to him that they were actually being compressed from the side. And this idea would later play a major role in discussions of continental drift. So he built this model, this crazy contraption with levers and wood, and here's his wheelbarrow, buckets, a big sledgehammer. I don't know why he's got the Wellington boots.

Naomi Oreskes: Why we...

 which doubles as a carbon cap. In one minute -- and you can tell from the sound how immensely stiff and strong it is. Don't worry about dropping it, it's tougher than titanium. Tom Friedman actually whacked it as hard as he could with a sledgehammer

Amory Lovins: A 40-year...

 think you think's like that yeah I don't think you're gonna approach with the sledgehammer you've got to kind of just keep it gentle venom well sometimes you know I see environmentalists with messages and it sounds like moralistic scolding and I

Why Paul McCartney...

 a carbon cap in one minute and you can tell from the sound how immensely stiff and strong it is don't worry about dropping it it's tougher than titanium Tom Friedman actually who acted as hard as he could with a sledgehammer without

A 40-year plan for...

 is real that I think okay if we think words are the tools that we use to build the expressions of our thoughts how can you say that screwdrivers are better than hammers how can you say that a sledgehammer is better than a ball-peen

Redefining the...

 dude no you're not we're all called and you were in trouble now it wasn't the Iraqis that was the weather that was gonna kill us night fell and that's when it hit me and it hit me like a sledgehammer

The Cold Sets In PIPE No...

 My hearing aids were industrial-strength, sledgehammer volume, but they helped me more than they helped most people. With them, I could hear music and the sound of my own voice.

How technology has...

 of keeping everything hygienically clean can't be overstressed. Who said Mike doesn't make right? Wasn't somebody with a sledgehammer. I guarantee you that.

Getting Water in the...

 and it felt like somebody had walked up and hit me in the back of the left shoulder with a sledgehammer