There was a particularly sharp rise in confidence in the retail sector, suggesting that domestic demand is picking up.
And there was a particularly sharp increase in the number of homeless households with vulnerable children, up from 25,350 in 2010 to 41,010 – a rise of 62%.
The embassy bombing in Beirut was a particularly sharp blow to the United States because a regional meeting of Central Intelligence Agency operatives was under way and crucial personnel were killed.
But in some other regions, notably Wales and the north-east, there has been a particularly sharp increase in this risk, to levels close to London's.
It also mercilessly sends itself up whenever talk of mystical mantras, energy fields and alternate dimensions gets too heavy: the rendering of Strange's cloak as a garment with a life of its own is a particularly sharp gag.
The use of nudity is a particularly sharp bone of contention, with Mr. Sendak insisting on it and Mr. Wolken worried that it would be at best distracting and at worst titillating.
Why we like her: London 2013: Drifting Through the Ruins, exploring what's to become of the Olympic site and its surrounds, is a particularly sharp imagining of abandoned ideals.
There was a particularly sharp rise in the number of 16 and 17-year-olds classed as unemployed, rather than in employment or education, up to 204,000 from 177,000 in the previous quarter.
The Taoyuan result was a particularly sharp slap in the face for the KMT, since most of its big guns, including President Lee Teng-hui, had gone on the stump in support of its candidate, an unknown party apparatchik.The Taoyuan win means that the DPP now controls local government for more than 50% of Taiwan's population.
But there is a particularly sharp analysis of the old working-class concept of "respectability" – not, he maintains, a synonym for snobbishness, and being better than the folks next door, but a symbol of the way one behaved, faced up to one's responsibilities, found what Inglis calls "the measure of a good life".
