Pistillate Inflorescence: terminal; bracts in fruit 4--25 mm, generally fused to near tip, ovoid to spheric, hard, wings 4, 3--6 mm wide, entire to wavy or deeply sharp-dentate.
These were carved in a powerful geometric style; the deeply cut, sharp-edged ridges and hemispheres approach total abstraction.
THE DESCENDANTS Alexander Payne, 2011, USA, 115min In his first film since the Oscar-winning Sideways, writer-director Alexander Payne once again proves himself a master of the kind of smart, sharp, deeply felt comedy that was once the hallmark of Billy Wilder and Jean Renoir.
But it is clear that months after the uproar over the Red Cross, there remains a sharp, deeply emotional division of opinion about how charities should be handling the vast sums of money they collected.
When done well, this is in the finest tradition of foreign correspondence: a genre that soars when offering sharp, deeply reported answers to seemingly dumb questions — dumb because they are so basic and self-evident that the smugly well settled never think to ask them, any more than fish inquire about the water.
The terrain is steep and deeply dissected, with sharp environmental gradients.
Why then does a show that has been widely lauded as having a deeply analytical and sharp understanding of blackness fail spectacularly at accurately and respectfully portraying Africans and the role they play in African-American society?
A few weeks ago, Pitchfork ran "I Know You Got Soul," a sharp and deeply researched piece by the critic and pop-chart analyst Chris Molanphy about the Billboard Hot R. & B./Hip-Hop B./Hip-Hop
Kasischke's sparse prose sinks us deeply into Diana's sharp, wistful psyche, as ordinary domestic events are imbued with a tension reminiscent of Paula Fox's brilliant "Desperate Characters".
