Heavier sensations dissolve from the body and awareness sharpens.
The big party machines insist the polls are wrong and that, when the media focus sharpens on Norris, the surge he has enjoyed will be as transient and temporary as the Indian summer we are currently enjoying on both sides of the Irish Sea.
As the night passes, industrial amounts of hard drink are downed, everybody rolls up their sleeves, sharpens their knives and deals with the past – in all its golden light and conflicting memories.
Fraught trade relations and off-putting investment climates (to say the least) normally prevent them from getting hold of the fancy imported goods they covet; which only sharpens the desire.
Many people think classical music is going to enhance brain function (the Mozart effect) or playing particular games sharpens ones cognitive function.
This self-confidence takes some of the edge off American hostility, just as it sharpens Europe's.Moreover, there has always been an undercurrent of American hostility towards Europe or at least some European countries which coexists with friendlier feelings and which should make the current spate of derision less of a shock.
The campaigners' hope is that, as public disenchantment sharpens, it will take in a scepticism about over-mighty criminal-justice policy as well as about economic oversight.
On a line that carries 725,000 passengers a day, and despite difficult talks with trade unions, all the work took place without a shutdown.In this section Mañana belongs to Mariano The new iron chancellor Driverless, workless Home thoughts from abroad Planet Orban Tusk sharpens up The sinking euro ReprintsThe main aim is better service.
No problem: mixing charm, toughness and impeccable fluency, Ms Sturgeon breezed it.Her success does not change the political picture, but it sharpens the colours in several ways.
A feeling that life is unfair and precarious sharpens the divide between winners and losers and risks political upsets.
Such a prospect greatly sharpens the policy dilemmas, both monetary and fiscal, that face both the European Central Bank (ECB) and EU governments.Reform or relapseThis week the ECB declared that it would set monetary policy according to three targets: for the money supply, for inflation, and for a mix of other indicators.
