Sentence examples for a sharp awareness of from inspiring English sources

He also had a sharp awareness of the inherent absurdity of the situation.

Ms. Martindell's return to Smith has given her both new intellectual skills and a sharp awareness of how much life has changed for young people.

Even if, at heart, the play is deeply traditional, it shows a sharp awareness of the plight of the modern middle-aged woman.

Harrison wrote such novels in the idiom of the politically conservative hack writer, but in reality he had a liberal conscience and a sharp awareness of the lack of literary values in so much of the SF he was parodying.

Americans are not supposed to know much about class, or to care about it, compared to our English cousins, who, it is said, are doomed to a sharp awareness of worldly position, the way some musicians suffer from perfect pitch in a world full of wrong notes.

But for the Church of Scientology, a new religion with limitless ambition and a sharp awareness of the importance of image, rehabilitating elegant old buildings serves both as a powerful means of repairing its reputation and as a tangible metaphor for that work.

Today's results appear to show a sharper awareness of demand for single sciences both from universities and employers.

I think I was more aware of this slow change as a child, but don't really know whether that's because my sight was a little better then (I've had two cataract operations since that have damaged, rather than improved my sight), or because in childhood I just had a sharper awareness of what sight I had.

It also fosters a sharp awareness about taxes.

As Kevin Baker points out in his current Harper's article, "Barack Hoover Obama: The Best and the Brightest Blow It Again," this penchant to go for the abstruse fix, in place of the plain one that stares in the face, has a good chance of dooming the Obama presidency, despite the president's undoubtedly sharp awareness of the issues at stake.

This story of an obsessional school feud carried on into senility combined the grotesquery of Dickens with a scalpel-sharp awareness of the persistence of snobbery, cruelty and infantilism in English life.