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.
Thus, it seems that this work, actually, does sharpen intuition and even yields results that might not be intuitively obvious.
But she does sharpen the choice before us: it's Obama versus Palin.
"Debt does sharpen your focus," Mr. Haas acknowledged.
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.
For those of us in the investing business who did not invest in Facebook, the only good news from this could be if the competition does sharpen the "IPO and beyond" team up a bit.
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.
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.
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.
