Sentence examples for sharp assessments from inspiring English sources

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").

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 breeze had been forecast to turn a bit soggy, but, although down on the previous day's bluster, was still lively and needed sharp assessment to pick the mainly left hand favoured side of the course.

Kyrgyzstan's leadership has been silent on that sharp assessment, while local media have been more interested in claims that China offered the country a $3bn£1.9bnbn) aid package if it would close the Manas airbase, which the US uses to supply its troops in Afghanistan.

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.

These comparisons show that the current methods for rating of existing reinforced concrete slab bridges, leading to a sharper assessment, are conservative.