"What is going to cause turbulence is not just the failure of Superior, but also the kind of lending that Superior was doing before it failed," he said, adding that Ms. Pritzker has a reputation as "a very sharp person, financially.
She's a smart, sharp person".
It does not take a very sharp person to see that we're out of our league and don't have any hope of getting into the league".
Certainly Ryan is a sharp enough person to stick around in the new media, he long ago made a successful transition to television, but it just isn't in his character.
How many of you have envied that sharp person in the room who can rattle off names, numbers and facts without hesitation?
Trying something new and different will allow your mind to work in different ways, so in effect you will become a sharper minded person.
The sensation of uncertainty and groundlessness in Manea's stories is not unlike that in W. G. Sebald's novels, except that in Sebald's fiction the general uncertainty is offset by a sharp foreground: places, persons, dress, time of day, movement from one place to another, all are precisely specified; every inch of fictional space and every minute of fictional time are accounted for.
** The sensation of uncertainty and groundlessness in Manea's stories is not unlike that in W. G. Sebald's novels, except that in Sebald's fiction the general uncertainty is offset by a sharp foreground: places, persons, dress, time of day, movement from one place to another, all are precisely specified; every inch of fictional space and every minute of fictional time are accounted for.
Ms. Kalla, perhaps the sharpest person covering telecommunications at a brokerage firm today, says Verizon is, at best, a $28 stock.
"Chinese dissidents have learned over the past two decades that exile leads to a sharp decline in a person's ability to make a difference inside China.
