Sentence examples for upon sharp from inspiring English sources

Mr. Neumeier captures Andersen's descriptions of physical torture by creating dance steps that make the principal ballerina in the role of the Mermaid (portrayed alternately in San Francisco by Yuan Yuan Tan and Sarah Van Patten) look, as Anderson wrote, as if she were "treading upon sharp knives".

We provide a comprehensive description of the defect tolerance of sodium-borosilicate glasses upon sharp contact loading.

The guide-wheel is the most delicate part of the system and is designed to snap off upon sharp impact; before the O-Bahn was in place, a number of buses were fitted with guide-wheels for their ordinary routes to test their durability.

Dilnot himself admitted he was "a Pollyanna-like kind of guy" and stressed that his odds were premised upon a sharp raising of the political temperature on the issue.

The critical aggregation temperature was investigated using fluorescence excitation spectrum of pyrene as a sequestered guest molecule based upon the sharp increase of the I338/I333 value.

More significantly, this change of microstructure with enhanced Ni content led to improved damage tolerance, manifested by a higher load required for crack formation upon a sharp contact (expressed as 1/HE2), and the plastic energy absorbed during nanoindentation.

This paper is concerned with the process of energy conversion between acoustic waves and vorticity when plane sound waves impinge upon a sharp trailing edge of a semi-infinite plate positioned in a supersonic mean flow.

In an effort to clarify the task and method of transcendental philosophy, Fichte insisted upon the sharp distinction between the "standpoint" of natural consciousness (which it is the task of philosophy to "derive," and hence to "explain") and that of transcendental reflection, which is the standpoint required of the philosopher.

But upon a sharp second look, all logic seems to fly out the window.

Joint space narrowing (JSN) scores were based upon the Sharp [ 8][ 4, 9] with Genant [ 6] modification method.

Depending upon how sharp you want the lines to be - and how masculine you need to look - apply more or less of the darker colour.