A sharp judge of talent, he recruited future stars such as Willie Nelson and Roger Miller to play in his band, the Cherokee Cowboys.
In the novella, the victim is an aged but still sharp judge, and the assault is pieced together with the help of footage from numerous surveillance cameras.
When Briles was coach of the Stephenville Yellow Jackets, he ran the spread offense, and his proximity to the high school game — he left to coach college only in 2000 — makes him a sharp judge of which players can make the jump.
Actors are often the sharpest judges of Shakespeare: a point proved by Ellen Terry, who in 1910 started touring a series of informal lecture-demonstrations on Shakespeare's characters.
Doctors, lawyers and other professionals play leading roles in deliberations and ask sharper questions, judges say, but they do not sway the opinions of less-educated jurors and single-handedly decide cases.
This week, in a sharp rebuke, Judge Gary Feess ruled that the city's plan to seal off a 186-acre site around the convention, and keep protesters penned in a parking lot out of earshot and direct sight of the convention delegates, was unconstitutional.
The show, presented by Phillip Schofield and Christine Bleakley, also sees the return of sharp-tongued judge Jason Gardiner.
Speaking only for myself, I think that if I were ever mistakenly sent to Syria to be tortured for a year, only to be greeted, upon release, by the United States government's refusal to acknowledge, rectify, or apologize for their error, I should hope I'd have at least one sharp-tongued judge probing the matter in depth!
WASHINGTON — The growing use by the police of new technologies that make surveillance far easier and cheaper to conduct is raising difficult questions about the scope of constitutional privacy rights, leading to sharp disagreements among judges.
