However, use of a sharper self-assessment instrument might have led to other conclusions about differences in the ability to self-assess skills.
It's a sharp, self-conscious portrait of the artist as a young grommet.
A sharp self-portrait and one of the sainted Matisse himsel enliven the mix further.
It's a sharp self-criticism, because there are times where the cinema viewer grows disengaged from the band and its original live audience.
That Kreayshawn shout-out is telling, because Kitty Pryde is basically the much sharper, self-aware, suburban high school version of Kreayshawn.
Alexie is a sharp and self-aware Native American writer and filmmaker, and he didn't necessarily mean to suggest that a Chinese person raised in America wouldn't gravitate toward Western themes.
The music world is also woven into the story, with a sharp and self-deprecating backstage anecdote delivered by Iggy Pop, and, above all, with the recurring, majestic presence of Patti Smith, as herself, who serves as a mentor to Faye and as the movie's tough-mindedly romantic philosophical conscience.
And Joan Allen (above, with Mr. Costner) is her usual spectacular, sharp self as Terry Wolfmeyer, a Midwestern wife and mother whose husband has just vanished (and she has a pretty good idea with whom).
"The Messenger," due out on the same label on Tuesday, is a sharper and less self-conscious album, his most satisfying in more than a decade.
There was a certain amount of tutting on social media when Kennedy was on Question Time in March, clearly confused and not his usual, sharp self.
George Pentecost makes a dry, wry‐on‐the‐rocks kind of Michael, the party giver who plays nasty games on his guests, and Edward Zang is excellent as the sharp, self pityingly abrasive Harold, the guest of honor who is cele brating, none too resignedly, his birthday.
