Sentence examples for sharpened sense of from inspiring English sources

This sharpened sense of isolation, fostered in both reality and imagination, stayed with De Quincey throughout his childhood and adolescence.

Mr. Itin, fascinated by the Taubman approach, studied its principles, and his "confidence level grew immeasurably," as did "a feeling of freedom and a sharpened sense of creativity".

But what he has brought to his performance is a more finely sharpened sense of absurdity and, almost as a byproduct, sadness.

Older mice that received young blood had a sharpened sense of smell, able to distinguish odours as well as young animals could.

They fake natural history with basic plumbing, making little rips in the urban fabric through which you glimpse hints of lost paradise and get a sharpened sense of Whitman's, the one you already inhabit.

Both governors survived and came away with an attribute essential for politicians here: a sharpened sense of fatalism.

But then, as now, a sharpening sense of political polarization and anger among police officers toward the mayor threatened to turn even an isolated police killing into a flash point.

"Events in the world have sharpened a sense of what's at stake," he said.

Also, my dad dying while I was recording my new album sharpened my sense of mortality.

To run into that instinct to make archetypes sharpened our sense of goal.

It is as though the miracle of their survival has sharpened his sense of the miraculousness of life itself.