Despite Austin's fine-tuned sense of direction, the detours took their toll.

In the ghetto, he'd had a fine-tuned sense of when trouble was coming.

The summer of 1986 found her perched above a semidesert in Namibia, her fine-tuned senses alert to the elephants at the water hole below.

In the interview, Mr. Frank's fine-tuned sense of irony was as apparent as ever, but his customary brashness was not.

Either your fine-tuned sense of recall has failed you, or the technology has hiccuped.

To-behave naturally, in the face of her fine-tuned senses, was almost impossible when you were expecting bad trouble to hit her any day and had no idea what shape it might take.

Those quacks are sitting ducks for Ms. Roach's fine-tuned sense of the absurd.

His unfamiliarity with the area irritated him and upset his fine-tuned sense of control.

Most women grow up somewhat in sync with their biological clocks - gaining a fine-tuned sense of when to expect monthly weight gain, moodiness, pimples.

A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics.