A documentary that takes sharp aim at the use of extracting oil through hydraulic fracturing premieres tonight at showings in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the title makes it clear where the filmmakers are pointing their critique.
To do this, they've developed a bespoke imaging system called the Macropod, a device that takes sharp, fully focused photographs of microscopic scientific objects at 18 to 26 megapixel resolution.
The house was at the end of a track that took senseless sharp turns, twisting first one way, then the other.
Frankly, this is a story that took a sharp turn into the bounds of rampant impossibility a long, long time before it was decided to use a mixed-race cast.
Lord Lloyd-Webber's last international smash was, in fact, the first "Phantom," which went on to be a global industry at the heart of the British musical boom of the 1980s: a phenomenon that took a sharp U-turn until "Mamma Mia!" came along many years later.
Unlike Caryl Churchill's Serious Money and Tony Marchant's Speculators, a pair of British plays that took a sharp look at the radical changes then taking place in the City of London, Stone's glossy, knowing movie was in thrall to the very milieu it was seeking to criticise.
By contrast, subjects who were told only that the images had diagonals of 2,900 and 2,090 pixels, an equivalent measure, were far less likely to prefer the camera that took the sharper photo.
During this staggered implementation, we evaluated the program's outcomes using a quasi-experimental design that took advantage of the sharp boundary in coverage.
People often find an unexpected punchline or a setup that takes a sharp turn very funny.
China's steel industry, the world's largest, is just beginning to recover from a sharp downturn that took place in the second half of last year, forcing many smaller mills to halt production.
