Bracing

Bracing may refer to:

  • Guitar bracing, internal reinforcements of a classical or acoustic guitar
  • Aircraft wing bracing structure, external to the supported wing
  • bracing style, a type of indent style in computer programming

Famous quotes containing the word bracing:

    “Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs
    Better than all the stalemate an’s and ifs.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Our Lamaze instructor . . . assured our class . . . that our cervix muscles would become “naturally numb” as they swelled and stretched, and deep breathing would turn the final explosions of pain into “manageable discomfort.” This descriptions turned out to be as accurate as, say a steward advising passengers aboard the Titanic to prepare for a brisk but bracing swim.”
    —Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)

    “To many men ... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.”
    —George Steiner (b. 1929)