Sentence examples for sharpens perception from inspiring English sources

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.

In conclusion, the primary aims of this unit are to enhance the students' interpersonal skills; to achieve greater initiative; to sharpen perceptions of self and others; to be more self-directive in resolving personal life problems without abusing our bodies with drugs.

Likewise, the authors found that involvement in ethnically segregated student organizations sharpened perceptions of discrimination and aggravated conflict between groups.

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.

He found that the receptor cells in the eye are interconnected in such a way that when one is stimulated, others nearby are depressed, thus enhancing the contrast in light patterns and sharpening the perception of shapes.

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.