Sentence examples for sharpens our sense from inspiring English sources

Her third novel confirms the richness of her concerns (remoteness, maternity, how we make life hard for each other) and it sharpens our sense of her steely, no-nonsense voice.

His attentiveness is so acute that it sharpens our senses, too.

Whatever else it does, this show sharpens our senses, returns us to something more primal, reminds us what it's like to feel poleaxed by theatre.

Gathering food in the wild immerses us in the elements, sharpens our senses and reconnects us with our surroundings.

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

Her school-age sons back home in England send her text messages ("Where's my tennis racket?") that only sharpen our sense of her isolation, her lack of sustaining closeness with other adults.

My most recent book, The Nets of Modernism, attempts to sharpen our sense of what's been called the "dissolution of the self" in modernist fiction, particularly by exploring the significance of images of bodily violation and exchange – scar, bite, wound, and their psychic equivalents – to the modernist imagination.

And amid the decade of strain and grieving that has followed the attack on U.S. soil, we've sharpened our sense of what's important, put aside some intolerant views and re-focused.

What Bourdain's managed to do is recruit the local cuisine and the people who eat, prepare and celebrate it as guides and storytellers, helping sharpen our sense of place.

Marshall McLuhan predicted that technology would sharpen our senses, but, instead, as the writer Michael Bugeja said last week, it seems to split them.

The director and his fledgling cinematographer, Lukasz Zal, shot the movie in hard-focus black and white; they have produced images so distinct and powerful that they sharpen our senses.