Sentence examples for sharp perceptions from inspiring English sources

"In fact, its sharp perceptions and macabre verve make it an often exhilarating read.

She described him as "a mainstream choreographer who is totally fluent and whose idiom, sharp perceptions and humor bear some relationship to the work of Paul Taylor".

Sharp perceptions like this, or the sound of Velcro ripping, or the "strange gurgle" of a razorbill, rise out from passages that seem submerged.

Through his study of Tokugawa period (1603 1867) literature, he led a revival of interest in the 17th-century writer Ihara Saikaku, whose sharp perceptions he blended with his own poetic aesthetic to create a style of romantic realism.

When the contrast between the words of Scott and his own sharp perceptions fails to convey the numbing fear that pervades life in modern Myanmar, Marshall turns to the reports of Amnesty International, sadly the most reliable guide to this country that puts so much off limits.

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel," a lavish trove of sharp perceptions and firm opinions, includes the author's vision of her next novel that is, the present one, foreseen as "spherical and self-contained, but jammed with things, like a spaceship made of Venetian glass, shining, intricate, and full of colors".

I think that there's a reason for this, one that's built into the story and that reflects Linklater's sharp perception of its implications.

But much of the credit must go to Ms. Crothers, whose ear for breezy dialogue, jaundiced but sympathetic eye and sharp perception of the conflicts between family and career lend the play a very contemporary tone and relevance.

She has a fine fit of hormonal rage, but, like the other heroines in the slacker-striver romances, she isn't given an idea or a snappy remark or even a sharp perception.

Their flaw, New Yorker critic David Denby noted of Katherine Heigl in Knocked Up, was that "like [Apatow's] other heroines… she isn't given an idea or a snappy remark or even a sharp perception".

But this ability is remarkable enough in its own right, for the cues are often given unconsciously by the human trainer, and detection of such subtle signals requires extremely sharp perception.