Sentence examples for does sharpen from inspiring English sources

Meditation almost certainly does sharpen your attention.

"Debt does sharpen your focus," Mr. Haas acknowledged.

So two cheers for the combative training ground of parliamentary politics, it does sharpen them up.

Some of this history-driven work is overly didactic or unresolved, but the institutional context does sharpen it, and further strengthens art that is already strong.

Ms. Zimmerman's book does sharpen some of the details, and more back story has been woven into the conflicts among the various animals over Mowgli's fate.

We lead a small group of young couples in this community, and iron truly does sharpen iron, especially in the issue of the parenting.

Itoje was too young to play in that match but, as he points out: "Disappointments do sharpen the desire.

Mr. Asmussen's message "really did sharpen the thinking of Mr. Anastasiades," said a European official with knowledge of what happened during the talks but who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were conducted in private.

And if the movie business is to keep making these smart little dramas in which ambitious actors and prize-hungry filmmakers take their annual shot at the gold, it will have to start doing what car makers and packaged-goods companies have always done: sharpen the message and narrow the targets.

The Federer essay, by contrast, is a much more urgent piece of writing, and that's because, this time, Wallace's arguments do sharpen to a point: the essay ends with the suggestion that Federer has, "literally and figuratively, re-embodied men's tennis" – in other words, has shown that the sport hadn't reached its "evolutionary endpoint".

I almost literally do sharpen my knife, I have a very sharp pen that I use with a steel nib, and I found I could cut into her almost like a scalpel cutting into a body.