Sentence examples for been given a sharp from inspiring English sources

And I had been given a sharp stick".

The 2013 play Override, in which she explored an alternative near future, has just been given a sharp new production at the Tiger Dublin fringe festival.

Jane Foley, Rabobank: The optimism that carried asset prices higher of the start of the year has been given a sharp wake up in the shape of the Italian election result.

But during the past two years we have been given a sharp warning that these differences still exist, and these differences are wide and deep".

The hourglass silhouette was once something soft and yielding, but it has been given a sharp-edged makeover.

Last week, at the Bay Hill Invitational, Montgomerie was given a sharp reminder of his Stateside status when he was drawn in the first group of the day.

At Lacoste, the history of tennis and of the crocodile motif were given a sharp and powerful serve by the designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista.

Suddenly, from contemplating hauling in New York and RSL, who'd both dropped points at home, Seattle were given a sharp reminder that they were in a game.

The former archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, was given a sharp lesson in the dangers of philosophising in public last week when newspapers got hold of his reflections on the ideas of Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, and the ways in which language works.

The new robot dog engineered by Google-owned Boston Dynamics can climb hills, stairs, and even keep its balance after it's given a sharp kick in the side (which happens at the 26-second mark in the video above).

There is a decided squick factor when it comes to this life-sustaining liquid; but that general unease and discomfort is given a sharp political bent when that blood happens to belong to a gay, bisexual, or transgender man.