whittle away (at) something

Examples of whittle

whittle
Practising architecture is asking oneself questions, finding one's own answers with the help of the teacher, whittling down, finding solutions.
The philosophy is easy-first parsing - we make the easy calls first, whittling away at the harder decisions in the process.
Such faith, moreover, would whittle away at the onslaughts of sin and cultivate a ' vivifying ' righteousness that spoke volumes to the enquiring soul.
From a distance, all of these efforts appear as whittling away at the bark of, say, an old growth trunk.
Most of these excess e's were whittled away in the course of the 17th century.
Whittle was able to go further, proving, in a slightly simpler case, a separation theorem that implies our certainty equivalence theorem in that case.
Given that the criteria for inclusion has been whittled away by these very serious limitations, it is exceedingly difficult to identify any audience for whom this bibliography can realistically cater.
Drugstore's expansive experimentalism fostered obscurity in a conflation of diverse marginal styles, while jazu-kissa whittled their singular collections down to perfectly contained and delineated generic repertoires.
By the time the 50p is received it will have been whittled away by the grabbing hand of galloping inflation.
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