Sentence examples for are sharpened by from inspiring English sources
Creativity will always flourish when the senses are sharpened by extremes.
These perceptions are sharpened by the beginning of the opposition party's primary campaign, which, of course, accentuates the negatives.
Whites, blacks, Mexicans and American Indians competing for rock-bottom wages on the factory floor simply cannot connect when racial animosities are sharpened by economic fears.
As well as being influenced by modernism, Ravilious's work is engaged with modernity – his pastoral views are sharpened by cement pits, fencing, pylons.
No headlines, just glimpses of the mundane that are sharpened by the knowledge that at any moment someone can be blown up in front of your eyes.
Others believe passionately that the Muslim-dominated, Arab north will never co-operate with the Christian and animist south, and that independence is the only way.Such differences are sharpened by fierce rivalries between the southern tribes.
Community is a reflex that's sharpened by necessity.
His "appetite for cosmic understanding" was sharpened by reading Russell.
The old tensions between East and West were sharpened by the quarrels about Chalcedon.
Far from being tempered or mellowed by age, his ambition has only been sharpened by it.
And it is an urgency that has only a week ago was sharpened by new disappointments.
