Here, in a poem called "On Waking in a Room and Not Knowing Where One Is", he writes of how dislocation sharpens perception: "Cities each have a kind of light, / a color even, / or a set of undertones / determined by the river or hills / as well as by the stones / of their countless buildings.
Mr. Chen's foreign minister speaks of a new "human rights diplomacy" -- using such initiatives to multiply Taiwan's global contacts and, not coincidentally, sharpen perceptions of the difference between this free-speaking island and the Communist-ruled mainland that claims sovereignty over it.
After a brilliant start that seemed to have him programmed for theatrical stardom -- with a leading role in the whimsical 1966 British film "Morgan!" only sharpening that perception -- Mr. Warner had within a few years vanished from the theater.
Robert Mangold's shaped "Light-Neutral Area," with its almost imperceptible shift of air-brushed color, likewise reveals itself slowly as something subtly beautiful, sharpening your perception while you stare at it.
It is really, at its core, about developing an understanding of the complex uses and effects of language, about sharpening our perception of human behaviour and about reasoned argument.
He borrowed J.L. Austin's method of 'using a sharpened awareness of words to sharpen our perception of the phenomena' (Hart 1994, v, 14).
Recent events have sharpened this perception.
It also sharpened the perception that the rules were designed to punish the arrivistes and protect the established order.
Intensifying the vividness of the cross-cultural exchange is the sheer physical diversity of the textiles: the shifting techniques and materials tend to sharpen visual perception.
They related to the conduct of the war in Afghanistan and sharpened a perception that Pakistan's military intelligence agency, the ISI, has been backing the Taliban in its fight against NATO and the government in Kabul.
They also sharpen visual perception, awakening you to the mundane details of the surrounding world and expanding your understanding of the way images of all sorts imprint themselves on the visual unconscious.
