The more interesting question now being raised is whether this sort of sharp-tongued courtroom sparring between advocate and justice might spill over into relations on the bench.
Still, there are times when there is a sharp reminder in the courtroom that all of these people are together to try to find out whether a young woman set fire to a 3-month-old baby girl one day this winter.
In a courtroom, a sharp-witted attorney would surely have asked Brennan how, then, he could be sure that using drones to kill Americans, or, for that matter, foreigners, was legal.
Ezra's refusal to play — his continued protests against being questioned in a way that people aren't questioned in life outside the courtroom — brought into sharp relief the artificial and, you might even say, inhuman character of courtroom discourse.
The quiet scene in a heavily guarded Manhattan courtroom appeared in sharp contrast to the violence that accompanied the process of bringing Mr. Coke, a reputed Jamaican drug dealer, to New York.
The courtroom echoes with a sharp crack as he slaps a hand to his brow and leans far back in a tall leather armchair.
But Mr. Younger was best known for his sharp wit and theatrics in the courtroom and had the rare forensic ability to destroy an opponent's witness with a few quick questions.
She is widely considered to have a sharp command of the law and of her courtroom.
Sharper is scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom Thursday for a hearing on the New Orleans warrant.
