Sentence examples for rather than sharpening from inspiring English sources

Asked to distinguish between "happy" and "fearful," in a design similar to ours using morphed facial expressions, participants rated ambiguous faces as "fearful" more frequently in the context of stress sweat, thereby lowering thresholds for detecting fear in others rather than sharpening discrimination.

Has a quarter-century of now unfashionable identity politics blunted rather than sharpened debate?

Among Clinton's liberal coalition it's even harder to imagine that they are looking for a politician who is trying to dull rather than sharpen the differences between the two parties.

In these efforts at lyricism, Spragg overturns the basic goal of an analogy; he blurs the world rather than sharpens it.

Zimmerman, 56, was saved from more serious injury because Mire used a bread knife rather than a sharpened blade, which also broke from the handle.

The fight against humans rather than software sharpens the joy of battle, and coalition-building heightens the challenge.

Critics said the proposal to increase the use of continuous assessment rather than examination would sharpen inequality and leave many students with useless qualifications.Yulia Tymoshenko, the new prime minister of Ukraine, said as many as 3,000 firms that had been privatised by the previous administration might now be taken back into state hands.

Something like that happened to me when I recommitted to Letterman, but rather than my senses sharpening, my sensibility did.

It was a nitpick on Housman's part – he was suggesting that anyone looking through liquid-filled binocular barrels would experience a blurred refraction of vision, rather than its strange sharpening.

In many ways that is how it should be: an election in which differences are sharpened rather than blurred, where voters have the opportunity to sort out the mixed messages from the last several cycles.

They do a lot of drinking -- the drive to Margate is punctuated by frequent sightseeing stops, each one followed by a visit to the local taproom -- and watching "Last Orders" is like finding that perfect stage of moderate drunkenness in which the senses are sharpened rather than dulled, and time passes with leisurely grace.