Sentence examples for Sharp perception from inspiring English sources

I think that there's a reason for this, one that's built into the story and that reflects Linklater's sharp perception of its implications.

But much of the credit must go to Ms. Crothers, whose ear for breezy dialogue, jaundiced but sympathetic eye and sharp perception of the conflicts between family and career lend the play a very contemporary tone and relevance.

She has a fine fit of hormonal rage, but, like the other heroines in the slacker-striver romances, she isn't given an idea or a snappy remark or even a sharp perception.

Their flaw, New Yorker critic David Denby noted of Katherine Heigl in Knocked Up, was that "like [Apatow's] other heroines… she isn't given an idea or a snappy remark or even a sharp perception".

But this ability is remarkable enough in its own right, for the cues are often given unconsciously by the human trainer, and detection of such subtle signals requires extremely sharp perception.

The performances by Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard as the repressed would-be lovers are exquisitely modulated; the narrative is tightly constructed (it is, at 86 minutes, Lean's shortest picture); the black-and-white cinematography of Robert Krasker is eloquent, its crispness a neat reflection of the painfully sharp perception the lovers share in their fleeting afternoons together.

"In fact, its sharp perceptions and macabre verve make it an often exhilarating read.

Sharp perceptions like this, or the sound of Velcro ripping, or the "strange gurgle" of a razorbill, rise out from passages that seem submerged.

She described him as "a mainstream choreographer who is totally fluent and whose idiom, sharp perceptions and humor bear some relationship to the work of Paul Taylor".

Through his study of Tokugawa period (1603 1867) literature, he led a revival of interest in the 17th-century writer Ihara Saikaku, whose sharp perceptions he blended with his own poetic aesthetic to create a style of romantic realism.

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel," a lavish trove of sharp perceptions and firm opinions, includes the author's vision of her next novel that is, the present one, foreseen as "spherical and self-contained, but jammed with things, like a spaceship made of Venetian glass, shining, intricate, and full of colors".