Sentence examples for the sharp pop from inspiring English sources

The sharp pop of gunfire draws little reaction.

WASHINGTON — So familiar has the horrific episode become in American mythology that it requires no great powers to imagine it: the sharp "pop" timed to coincide with audience laughter, the smoke rising from the presidential box, the signs of a struggle, and the dashing young man, upstaging a fellow actor's soliloquy, leaping onto the stage brandishing his Bowie knife.

(Anderson) ★ The Thermals (Saturday) The sharp pop-punks behind the brilliantly scathing 2006 album "The Body, the Blood, the Machine" (Sub Pop) — a cut-up of the Old Testament with both vitriol and hooks to spare — field-test material from their forthcoming sixth album.

(Anderson) ★ The Thermals (Tuesday and Wednesday) The sharp pop-punks behind the brilliantly scathing 2006 album "The Body, the Blood, the Machine" (Sub Pop) — a cut-up of the Old Testament with both vitriol and hooks to spare — play material from their sixth album at Williamsburg's top DIY space.

(Anderson) ★ The Thermals (Thursday) The sharp pop-punks behind the brilliantly scathing 2006 album "The Body, the Blood, the Machine" (Sub Pop) — a cut-up of the Old Testament with both vitriol and hooks to spare — field-test material from their forthcoming sixth album at Williamsburg's top DIY space.

John has spent the last decade cranking out grandly sappy ballads and counting (or is that spending?) his millions; this record has been touted as a return to the sharper pop of his early years.

But there's a lot of power in the short, sharp pop of this homemade explosive.

But the strategy seems to have backfired: a policy of offering low or no sales commissions left brokers with little incentive to push the shares, and with the $15 price rise on the first day of trading the shares got a sharp pop anyway.The lowering of the price range may have had more to do with greed than the auction process itself.

"Tyrannosaurus Hives" finds the Hives' sound intact — there are the same bright guitars and sharp pop hooks, not to mention the hyperactive vocals of the brash front man, Howlin' Pelle Almqvist — but it is more painterly than its predecessors, with a broader palette.

Otherwise, their rat-a-tat machine-gun assault on the singles chart combined sharp pop songwriting with an experimental assimilation of street culture.

Ty Burr of Entertainment Weekly reviewed the album positively, writing of a return to Powderfinger's "bar-band roots", while still featuring some "sharp pop hooks under the riffs".