sharpened awareness

He'd done it again: shocked her mind into sharpened awareness.

"That woman" said nothing, but I sensed her sharpened awareness.

However, the increasing interest in discourse and text analysis over the last ten years has sharpened awareness of some crucial differences.

That sense of security, he said, has been replaced by cautiousness and a sharpened awareness of safety.

What is true, however, is that credit marketers have a sharpened awareness of the need to maximise value for money.

Rather her health-sense detected a sharpened awareness, as if his nerves had been tuned to a higher pitch.

Orton nursed her, then went wild on her sharpened awareness of how short life can be.

"There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around."

Something about that Ylir case had sent McKie back to this wife with a sharpened awareness of her needs.

But Henriette felt a sharpened awareness and the first pricklings of fear as she looked for Conrad and Sofia.

Yet his work creates a sharpened awareness of intimacy and its liberties by dramatizing the unsettling possessiveness and appetite of the gaze.

According to Austin, the sharpened awareness of words is used to sharpen the perception of the phenomenon, though not as the final arbiter of the phenomenon (p. 182).

Efforts by America's Pacific islands and others to attract tourists from China coincide with a sharpened awareness of tourism's fickle nature, with Japan as a prime example.

"I think the events of the weekend have sharpened awareness of the issue," she said, adding that a Senate inquiry would be less likely to be caught up in partisan rivalries.

You can emerge from the experience with a sharpened awareness of art's ability to sharpen awareness - whether of the crushing effects of war, poverty and racism or of the communicative power of art.

Not only did the students learn many new and interesting facts about peregrines; they developed a sharpened awareness of our planet's perils and the need for all of us to be in tune with realistic ways to save it.

PECULIAR MORNING As if every living thing lived, breathed its existence explained why water took the shape of a container, studied sharpened awareness of cold, broke night spots onto a peculiar morning.

But although we felt less anxiety than we had at any time for nearly a year, an underlying effect remained, a sense of warning, with a sharpened awareness that we were set apart, with the safety of all of us lying in the hands of each.

The president believes that he can win back supporters by focusing on a Robin Hood tax increase, but for a president already perceived as too liberal and now weighed down by a sharpened awareness of the taxes in his health law, this looks like it’s playing into Romney’s hands.