Sentence examples for sharpened emotions from inspiring English sources
These will not include all the various states commonly called emotions, and a sentimentalist might well accept a no-priority account of the relation between certain values and "cognitively sharpened" emotions such as resentment, as opposed to simple anger (D'Arms and Jacobson 2003).
A fourth experiment investigated behavioral effects, demonstrating that stress samples sharpened emotion-perception of ambiguous facial stimuli.
For example, people in the study consistently associated narrowed eyes – which enhance our visual discrimination by blocking light and sharpening focus – with emotions related to discrimination, such as disgust and suspicion.
"But war sharpens your emotions, because now we're alive; tomorrow we may be dead.
"Varying levels of serotonin and norepinephrine can alter moods by sharpening the edge of emotions," says David Fastiggi, founder and head educator of Eartheaven, a spiritual health education center.
His genial features sharpened.
Resentment sharpened into vendetta.
The nagging feeling sharpened.
