sinew
- n a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment
- n possessing muscular strength
- The plan's prime point was that Germany should pay first of all with the bone sinew of German industrymachines, stocks, tools, practically everything except factory buildings.
- And these superb actors three veteran colleagues, one (Dufvenius) a newcomer in the great tradition of Bergman ingenues give the characters sinew and subtlety.
- Winehouse sings with as much power and sinew as the soul divas she fetishizes, and whether by accident or imitation, she's got their troubles, too; man trouble, booze trouble .