On Thursday, one of his deputies faced a decidedly sharper inquisition from a panel in Britain.
A day after raising international hopes by agreeing to hold direct talks about stabilizing Iraq, U.S. and Iranian officials Friday took a decidedly sharper tone toward each other, differing markedly over the purpose of their planned discussions.
I was stunned and flattered by how generous she was with her time, how open she was with me about what she was going through -- and had gone through -- in her own life, and impressed by her sharp, decidedly un-sugar-coated take on society, pop culture and life as a woman.
As Annie begins to respond to her visitors' urgent demands for earthly retribution, the book takes a sharp — and decidedly creepy — turn toward the classic British whodunit.
But when she has to use Shaw's words to express Eliza's pain or desire she goes flat; it's as though she had nothing internal to draw on to match Shaw's witty, sharp, and decidedly unpsychological language.
Mr. Bergsten is concerned that if the nation does not act now, a sharper fall is decidedly possible.
Potentially harmful (and decidedly unnatural) food industry technologies come into sharp and vibrant focus in Zim & Zou's paper-sculpture installation, Edible Monsters.
Elysa Gardner of USA Today wrote: "Jackson claims not to be bothered by the brigade of barely post-adolescent baby divas who have been inspired by and, in some cases, have flagrantly aped the sharp, animated choreography and girlish but decidedly post-feminist feistiness that have long been hallmarks of her performance style".
But for those who supply the world's militaries, the environment has grown decidedly more challenging, with governments in the United States and Europe preparing sharp cuts in military spending as they seek to rein in ballooning budget deficits.
The White House has kept a decidedly low profile in the last few weeks, in sharp contrast to the relentless and very public lobbying conducted by Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson before OPEC's meeting in March.
Certain things were very crude, others were very sharp but overall it felt like a decidedly different VR device, if not more of an aspirational concept.
