Sentence examples for sharp assessment of from inspiring English sources

Mr. Biden's sharp assessment of his predecessor contrasted with the generally polite tone he and President-elect Barack Obama have tried to take since the Nov. 4 election.

While "the facts were there," he observes, they were filtered "by young, inexperienced and largely unmilitary officers," who failed to provide a "sharp assessment of enemy aims and capabilities".

The secretary's sharp assessment of the migrants counters criticism that the Trump administration is exaggerating the threat they pose and going overboard by deploying troops to aid border authorities.

The zippy plot of Ways to Disappear is sprinkled with meditations on language and with sharp assessments of the publishing world.

But he never dwelled on the past when it came to his sharp assessments of the current Canadiens or changes in the sport.

Many of the sharp assessments of the Murdochs ended up in the text thanks to amendments pushed by the committee's five Labour MPs and approved by its sole Liberal Democrat.

We're treated to Nate's sharp assessments of his friends — a taxonomy of bombastic and sly literary types, as energetic as Waldman's portraits of the dives and restaurants they drift in and out of — and also to a view into the clanging procession of his erotic thoughts ("Greer's breasts were his favorite size," Nate observes casually, "just big enough to fill a wine glass — a red one").

The danger is that personalization, however accurate, can get in the way of sharper assessments of resources, national aims and public attitudes.

And even he concedes that some of the sharper assessments of his writing may have merit: "I've never said I'm the best writer in the world", he says.

He provides a clear-eyed, sharp-tongued assessment of this hinge moment in time, when the world's center of gravity is shifting "from the West to the East".

From these inauspicious beginnings, Lejeune became a star reviewer, known for her sharp, witty assessments of new releases.