Possibly this view represents the show's critical edge, but if so, it is sharpened at the expense of accuracy.
You find yourself in a recreation of the room from the film's opening, sitting in the same chair as Mareuil's character, around which are scattered various significant odds and ends from the scene: most notably the cigarette and lighter as famously used by Buñuel on the balcony, the offending razor blade, and the strop on which it is sharpened.
When you identify and describe a smell out loud, your ability to perceive it is sharpened.
ANCHORAGE — Even as the collapse of the case against former Senator Ted Stevens has prompted questions over the legitimacy of the election he lost last fall, it has also raised doubts in his home state about a sweeping federal investigation that sent several other Alaska politicians to prison as it was sharpening its focus on Mr. Stevens.
But many here said it was sharpening.
"It's sharpened up his image," explains a chum.
My wife did, and oh, how it's sharpened my senses.
When snow blankets the details of a familiar world, perceptions, particularly of space, and of moving through it, are sharpened.
It's sharpened my focus on the world of care assessments, eligibility criteria, disability living allowance, respite breaks, OTs, Sencos, and other sets of initials".
Amy Poehler, the executive producer of "Difficult People," told me, "Billy and Julie have both felt like outsiders, and it's sharpened their writing and performing.
