Sentence examples for sharp specificity from inspiring English sources

He presents this much-ignored aspect of Roosevelt's thinking with sharp specificity ("I am so angry with that infernal little Cuban republic that I would like to wipe its people off the face of the earth," Roosevelt wrote in 1906) and then goes on to make a much more damaging point, angrily and persuasively connecting Roosevelt's race-based foreign policy miscalculations in Asia.

It's a story of the Great Migration of African-Americans, survivors of slavery and the descendants of former slaves, to the North; it's made in a way that both embraces the historical idea and atomizes it in the sharp specificity of personal experience.

The ancillary characters — the two cops, the blustery Russian and the eccentric old lady who frequents the shop (Jane Alderman) — might have come straight from the Sidekicks, Neighbors and Friends rack, although the excellent actors imbue them all with a sharp specificity.

Unlike the sharp specificity of RvE1 to TRPV1 activity, RvD1 displayed broader inhibitory actions on the activities of TRPA1, TRPV3, and TRPV4 [ 36, 39].

No writer can match him for pin-sharp specificity in his rapt close-ups of rural life, from the nocturnal scents of the village ("The bread-and-biscuit smell of rotting wood. The piss-and-honey tang of apple trees") to the rank midden of lowland "Turd and Turf" which serves as boneyard and latrine.

Over the course of 12 songs and 43 minutes, "Fear Fun" romps through the surreal, sometimes epic, often petty, always sun-drenched landscape of Los Angeles with writerly lyrics and catchy melodies that evoke the city with razor-sharp specificity.

The movie pivots on matters of shame, guilt, and responsibility — and of discourse, action, and perception — to which Parker lends a sharp emotional specificity as well as an element of speculative thought that, at their height, have a distinctively cinematic merit.

This review has a sharp focus on their specificity.

Indeed we found a sharp decrease in the specificity of D-dimer testing to rule out venous thromboembolism in older patients with a non-high clinical probability using the conventional D-dimer cut-off value, although the sensitivities of D-dimer testing were high across all age categories.

Sensitivity and specificity of periodic sharp and slow wave complexes (66 and 74%, respectively) are lower compared with the 14-3-3 14-3-3 14-3-3ch showed analysisll sensitivity of 94% and specificity of 84% (Zerr et al., 2000; Steinhoff et al., 2004).

Furthermore, in sharp contrast to the high specificity hitherto found in all investigated MH species [ 1], and especially MH orchids [ 9], mycorrhizal associations in the two Aphyllorchis species studied here revealed a very low specificity, while C. exigua proved to be more specific.