"Under Pep Guardiola this season, Bayern look even sharper and with more possession," Mertesacker says.
By the second debate, staged by the BBC in the Edwardian grandeur of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and screened live across the UK and overseas, Salmond was in sharper form and better briefed, largely thanks to Sturgeon.
There's a terrific film to be made about Cecil Rhodes, but it would be a lot sharper and darker than this.
Nobody was sharper in debate He failed to create the kind of intellectual ferment that successful parties need, yet nobody was sharper in debate.
More restrictions on migration would mean enshrining sharper inequality between the rich and poor worlds - ease migration, and global inequality should decline.
But the next chapter for British multiculturalism might well demand that the boundaries of what state schools regard as acceptable in the acceptance of diversity needs sharper focus.
Melissa Denes, editor of Weekend, said: "We've added new voices and dip-in elements at the front of the magazine, and improved our back section, with stronger photography, sharper design, and a range of new columnists.
Spring onions and chives each contribute their own sharper, greener onion flavour, which, though not traditional, I rather like, though I suspect such additions would be frowned upon up in Poulton-le-Fylde.
Jaffrey adds fresh green chilli to the dish, while Stein, Solomon, Toombs and Dhali go for chilli powder – I prefer the sharper flavour of the fresh sort.
Clarke has a plan to turn that around, comprised largely of sharper prices and revamped stores.
The reputations of the five prime ministers is thrown into even sharper relief when we look at the verdicts of their party's own supporters – Conservative supporters on Thatcher, Heath and Major, and Labour supporters on Blair and Brown.
