Sentence examples for combined sharp from inspiring English sources

Otherwise, their rat-a-tat machine-gun assault on the singles chart combined sharp pop songwriting with an experimental assimilation of street culture.

Also on the bill was Stilgoe, another songwriter who combined sharp wit with gentle satire, and in 1985 the two began an 18-year collaboration with a two-man show, Stilgoe and Skellern.

Mr. Hytner, who helped make Alan Bennett's "History Boys" a sprightly cash cow for the National, has always combined sharp theatrical intelligence with a populist instinct for what the customer wants.

Mr. Kahn went on to start two chains of health food stores, Fresh Fields and Nation's Heartland, which combined sharp attention to the demands of fitness-conscious consumers with price-conscious marketing.

In books like "Against Love: A Polemic" and "How to Become a Scandal," Laura Kipnis has combined sharp analysis with blistering wit to challenge prevailing notions about love and sex, power and desire, hubris and retribution in American life.

"Will & Grace" wasn't high art, but it combined sharp writing with a premise that held some genuine pathos: the central couple were chaste lovers separated by their sexual orientation, and they were doubled, in a Shakespearean fashion, by the raucous drunks Jack and Karen, who played their own ribald variation on the same romantic situation.

Most of its songs combine sharp riffs with unexpected twists, injections of odd meter, modulations in key.

SECOND DAY Suggested is a hike of 10.7 miles that combines Sharp Top Trail, Elk Run Trail, Harkening Hill Trail and the Johnson Farm Loop Trail.

His aim was to combine sharp political commentary, technical sophistication and star performances, and this he achieved with the political thriller L'Assassino.

She cites German-language writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Max Frisch as inspiration, for "combining sharp analysis of society with humour", as well as Toni Morrison and Mildred D Taylor, "women writers who made the black experience in the US very tangible to me".

What transports them beyond illustration is Moreau's disturbingly suggestive style: he combines sharp, jewelled details with vague mists of colour in a way that raises his art from depiction to dream.