Sentence examples for sharply directed from inspiring English sources

Not so in this case where Congress had its attention sharply directed to the fact that plain speech was needed if a hearing was to mean so much.

The production, sharply directed by Adam Immerwahr, compensates somewhat for the spiritual emptiness at the play's core by moving swiftly and fluently.

Sharply directed and with effective comic performances from Seth Rogen and Zac Efron, it has a wit and even an occasional tenderness that belie its near-constant crudity.

But in this sharply directed Netflix documentary, one of the key aims is exploring behind the headlines, the accusations and the slut-shaming.

"This is a truly staggering piece of musical theatre, which breaks new boundaries in its staging, choreography and concept on an epic scale...a daring and provocative work sharply directed by Jay Schieb," says one of many rave reviews.

At its best, the quartet plays with a brand of fierce, sharply directed energy and the kind of intensely focused sound that makes every line in a texture stand out clearly.

Christie's demagoguery has most sharply been directed against teachers and their unions.

Set up by a neat flick from Ryan Woods on 73 minutes, Clark turned sharply to direct a neat finish past keeper Rob Lainton.

A rural group home for pregnant teen-agers is the setting for this intimately detailed, sharply observed modernist melodrama, directed by Nathan Silver.

There is a fair bit to keep up with, but it's so sharply written and pacily directed, not to mention shot in a way that evokes the dark brutality of many a graphic novel, that you can't tear your eyes away for a moment.

Many of his short stories, whether set in Normandy or Paris, rely on sharply reductive, satiric techniques directed against his favourite targets women, the middle classes, the Prussians and designed to bring out hypocrisy and dishonesty as the central forces in human life (as in "Boule de suif" [1880; "Butterball" in Butterball]).