Sentence examples for sharp examination from inspiring English sources

With the startled look of a man unaccustomed to sharp examination, Lehman's chief executive, Richard Fuld, clashed bluntly with the chairman of the House oversight committee, Henry Waxman, on Capitol Hill.

If you're looking for a sharp examination of the encroachment of modern life on traditional values, however, keep in mind that Sunday night also offers the 450th episode of "The Simpsons".

Bond called "Unfollow" a political thriller that's a sharp examination of social media.

The movie, from 1970, shows its age, and Sautet's portrait of prickly love cannot compare with Godard's far sharper examination of Piccoli and Brigitte Bardot in "Contempt," made seven years earlier.

In its razor-sharp examination of a culture still clinging to their 8-bit glory days, it may be a truly brilliant work of social commentary.

His deal with the government and his $8 million severance package from Christie's is certain to come under sharp scrutiny when cross-examination resumes today.

During a sharp cross examination, however, David Boies, a lead lawyer for the plaintiffs, peppered Dr. Miller with questions about discrepancies between his testimony Monday and earlier sworn depositions he had given.

"The Last Holiday," published eight months after Scott-Heron's death at 62, provides sharp oratorical examinations of the American social contract as well as a pop star's bathetic memories and celebrity encounters.

The other finalist was David George Haskell's "The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature," a sharp-focus examination of a square meter of old-growth forest in Tennessee.

If the Kandahar killings sent a shudder through U.S.-Afghan relations and through the military itself this spring as the horror of the case emerged, it seemed clear from the day's opening testimony — and the sharp cross-examination by Sergeant Bales's defense team — that the Article 32 hearing itself could continue the aftershocks.

In the last two months every performer with a BMG Classics contract has come under much sharper scrutiny, with an intensive examination of recording schedules and of profits and losses, the music executives said.