Each man had his own goals in the confrontation: Mr. Mondale, with snappy responses and a sharp command of contemporary issues, tried to defuse criticism of his age and long hiatus from elective office.
Mr. Cumpsty's appeal — and, not incidentally, his lustrous voice and sharp command of Shakespeare's verse — is such that you may find yourself chortling along with Richard as his enemies tumble before him like bowling pins.
The series also reveals the deepening of her art, from the flinty lyricism of the nineteen-thirties to the sharp-edged command of the nineteen-fifties.
The air is a cacophony of shouts, screams and sharp commands from the senior surgeon in charge of sorting the casualties.
Sharp commands the biggest market share of all eight cell phone makers in Japan so this is very good news for the Google OS in what is the most advanced mobile society in the world.
If successful, the alliance could significantly raise the profile of Mr. Braun, who at 32 has already established himself as a sharp talent hunter with a keen command of social media.
His throws were sharp, and at times his command of the offense was outstanding.
The politics of the time were complex and complicated by ethnic divisions between native Russian nobility and those having second and third-generation German descent, leading to sharp rivalry for positions in command of the army.
The peer's role in preparing his old college friend for one of the toughest chapters in his political career was to play the role of Robert Jay, the counsel for the inquiry, a slight, bearded figure who combines a razor-sharp mind and an encyclopedic command of the vast volumes of documents — known in legal parlance as "bundles" — that form a sort of baseline for the inquiry.
At Winchester college (1944-49), where I first met him, he made a sharp impression; he was literate, in command of the language, almost sophisticated.
