Sentence examples for instead of sharpening from inspiring English sources

Instead of sharpening his vision of Paris, Marxism had settled over it like a fog, reducing Benjamin to crude clichés.

Now, instead of sharpening their attacks on Democrats, Republicans on Capitol Hill are being forced to explain why they are not to blame and why Americans should trust them to govern both houses of Congress when the one they do run is in such disarray.

Instead of "sharpening the saw" with repeated practice and the right mental images, I wore my bad attitude as a virtual armband.

It has a way of sharpening the mind.

In order to improve the slow transition with general sharpening methods, we have to increase the amount of sharpening.

You're Not Depressed, You're Just Too Happy.

Make spears out of sharpened wood to hunt.

Tuna, whose job includes turning pages of a signboard, instead sharpened her claws on the rug and sniffed the floor.

For one thing, we can barely make out what's happening; instead of the sunlight that sharpened the vision of Steve McQueen in "Bullitt" or Gene Hackman in "The French Connection," we get nothing but spray and blur, with the color washing out of the world.

The Harveys played another form of cricket in their concreted backyard using a marble instead of a ball that sharpened their reflexes, and a miniature bat.

Jody Rosen of Slate magazine declared "Today Was a Fairytale" "track of the week", highlighting its imagery that, according to her, "sharpen the focus instead of softening it".