Sentence examples for rather sharply from inspiring English sources

Recession had dented emissions rather sharply.

After that, the list drops off rather sharply.

"It's pronounced 'PENNIS-tun,' " Fiona Moran, manager of the Old Vicarage Hotel in Penistone, said over the telephone, rather sharply.

For a man who had won at least one and as many as three major titles every year since 2003, the career arc had dipped rather sharply.

I asked if she felt that she was as energetic as she ever was, and she said rather sharply, 'What do you mean?

I point out rather sharply that nobody these days wants to be a peasant and that girls have better things to do than pluck chickens.

Luckily we were primed for this, so the pain has eased in rather than sharply cut.

The fact that the jokes are tired and familiar renders them affectionate rather than sharply barbed.

The episode is not disastrous, as it is interrupted - and she is not warped by the experience, but rather more sharply aware of life around her after it.

This is because characters whose feelings are supposed to be at stake are blunted, dumbed-down caricatures of notional human beings, rather than sharply etched epitomes of human behavior.

Nevertheless, there is something a little queasy about the way Moodysson uses angels here and it contrasts rather too sharply with the neorealist style of the rest of the picture.