Another brilliant student, Ayano Kamimura, 21, and Japanese, played Rachmaninoff beautifully, living every moment, and Mr. Helmerson hit just the right note in praising her temperament and helping her to sharpen ideas she had basically worked out for herself.
For example, if you are working to improve your communication skills, your research might reveal that communication can be broken down into sharpening your ideas and content, clarifying your writing, enhancing your oral communication skills, and improving your listening skills.
Leadership is the indispensable ingredient for any concerted effort toward a common goal, and leaders require strong communication skills as they reconcile, shape, sharpen, and focus ideas so that they are actionable.
Silent-movie accompaniment, like circus music, is inherently an art of synchronization: it's about sharpening the idea of a gunshot, a pratfall, a sudden reveal.
It sharpened my ideas to contrast them with Buddhist beliefs.
Benedict reaffirmed and in some way sharpened conservative ideas on touchstone issues like abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality and artificial contraception.
The overall sense is of a talented artist in need of a sounding board to shape and sharpen his ideas.
And musicians working alone, or mostly alone, can't count on a group's creative friction -- or an engineer's involuntary smirk -- to sharpen their ideas.
Milne's theory met with opposition from his contemporaries on both scientific and philosophical grounds, but his work helped to sharpen mainstream ideas about space-time and also inspired the steady-state theorists.
A typical day included "Idea Mornings" with local entrepreneurs and civic leaders at stops along the way; onboard mentoring with noted professionals; and six hours of free time for participants to spread and sharpen their ideas in meetings with business and community leaders.
