Sentence examples for sharp sentences from inspiring English sources

They excel in hard, sharp sentences of seeing.

He had his reporter's notebook, though, each page filled with a few sharp sentences.

In a few sharp sentences, Pinter pinned down the willed indifference of the media to publicly recorded events.

He favoured short, sharp sentences for young thugs and extending life imprisonment to mean at least 25 years.

It is easy to be carried along by the tempo of her prose, which alternates between short, sharp sentences and sprawling passages that leave you gasping for breath.

Short sharp sentences, echoing the static of the radios, make the first hundred pages very tiresome to read, as does the American idiom.

Ministers are currently silent on the sentencing aspects of this bill but the manifesto promised the introduction of a new short, sharp sentence of custody for persistent offenders.

The now-legendary mantra "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime", packing a double-whammy of toughness into one short, sharp sentence, defused the Conservative accusations that Labour were soft on law and order.

It is unwelcome news for writers who are paid by the word, but will suit those who have adapted to the needs and quirks of social media and mastered the short sharp sentence.

An umbrella becomes a poppins; frizzy hair is an atwood; a short, sharp sentence becomes a hemingway; and throwing up when drunk is, of course, a palahniuk.

Ministers have been silent on the sentencing aspects of this bill but the Conservative manifesto promised the introduction of short, sharp custodial sentences for persistent offenders.