"sharp speech" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a type of speech that is cutting, harsh, or critical in nature. Example: The politician's sharp speech about his opponent's policies caused controversy and divided the audience.
Vice President Dick Cheney opened the debate with a sharp speech criticizing Mr. Kerry in March 2004 at the same time the campaign began airing its first negative advertisements.
In flying to New York City, the president wants to confront the financial industry more directly through a sharp speech just a few minutes' subway ride from Wall Street, and with some of its leading corporate titans in the audience.
Tom Watson, one of the heroes of the phone-hacking saga who is cheered wherever he appears, makes a funny and sharp speech at the Tribune rally, and perhaps points the way to a new post-Blairite consensus that will not automatically be hammered by the hackarati.
In a sharp speech, Abraham Kaul, the president of the community group, criticized Britain's refusal to allow the extradition of a former Iranian ambassador to Argentina who was indicted here last year, and also complained about a lack of cooperation in Switzerland in determining how the attack was financed.
Meanwhile, those juices that were rated as tasting sour were consistently matched with angular shapes, sharper speech sounds, sounds with a higher pitch, and were liked less.
Gloria showed up in the middle of it all and blessed Daddy and Moody BOTH out for being idiots in one of the sharpest speeches of her career, and then joined in the laughter, as well as Mom.
Instead, he offers a sharp stump speech, tightened to about six minutes.
In most ways he's made an astonishing comeback, his reading skills sharp, his speech articulate, his guitar playing fluid.
Framing a sharp little speech about the care of furnaces and the use of soft coal, he phoned the convent, and asked to speak to the Mother Superior.
Mr. Gore gave sharp political speeches targeted to important Democratic constituency groups.
On Monday, however, the sentimentality and girlishness were gone as she gave a sharp-edged speech casting herself as a pol of proven dynamism in a field of pandering lightweights.
