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Years behind a desk dealing with people had given him a sharp eye for detail.

Whatever the answer, the pictures combine a sense of absorbed, witnessing empathy with a sharp eye for detail.

He had a sharp eye for detail.

Conan had a sharp eye for detail, and his memory of trails once traveled would stay clear for long periods.

He had a sharp eye for detail and color, allying himself with the new modernists who painted subjects of contemporary life.

He is a graceful, economical writer, with a sharp eye for detail and a nuanced feel for character.

We applaud the directors or their sharp eye for details, their patience and their restraint.

TO preside over a social hierarchy requires a sharp eye for detail, and this may explain why snobs often write vividly.

Even robocameras had a sharp eye for detail, especially when it was associated with something genuinely morbid, such as death.

Pleased, Fullbright said, "I've got a sharp eye for detail."

The fictional Arnon is obviously very smart, with a blackened wit and a sharp eye for detail.

Meanwhile, Mr. Pelecanos continues to display a sharp eye for detail and a terrific ear for street dialogue.

In his review for Newsweek, David Ansen wrote, "Character-driven, it relies on chemistry, camaraderie, a sharp eye for detail and good casting".

Gifted with a sharp eye for detail and an unerring ear for dialogue, Stephanie Vaughn conjures up small-town America with uncommon talent and poise.

Repeatedly his sharp eye for detail, his encyclopedic knowledge of the human anatomy, and his uncanny investigative intuition helped this medical sleuth reconstruct the victim's violent demise.

In Quill & Quire, Bronwyn Drainie wrote that, despite some flaws, "the book is a gripping short read, largely due to Ignatieff's sharp eye for detail and his sinewy, journalistic prose.

But she likes the novels of Ian Rankin and his hard-drinking detective, Rebus, who has very little in common with Dalgliesh, except that each has a sharp eye for detail and for uncovering the unexpected.

Solwitz's fine-toothed examinations of complex emotional states are dead on, and she has a sharp eye for details, from the "spick spick spick" of an envied upstairs neighbor's high heels on a hardwood floor to the "homemade, linseed-oiled cupboard doors" in a politically correct Colorado kitchen.

A small, choice selection from the more than 200 portraits of rural and small-town homes that Vogt made, now on view at the American Folk Art Museum, reveals an architectural draftsman whose formal ingenuity, disregard for conventional perspective and sharp eye for detail delightfully animated an otherwise quaintly mundane, illustrative genre.