Word: sharp
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...survey found a sharp drop in confidence among working Americans. Only 40% of them said they were "very confident" that they'd have enough money to cover basic living expenses in retirement, while 25% felt confident they'd have enough cash to pursue hobbies and interests, and 28% expressed a high level of confidence that they had done a good job preparing for retirement...
Despite Barnett’s reserved demeanor with his family, colleagues and former students remember his sharp wit and engaging conversations...
...compensation for HMC’s president and top five officials totaled $26.8 million. In 2003, when managers were paid $107.5 million, many of the same alumni issued sharp protestations—which reportedly disgruntled many HMC managers and motivated them to leave Harvard to found private firms...
...late Irving Kristol—intellectual godfather of modern neoconservatism and a pretty sharp cookie—didn’t think so. It’s why, after living in New York all his life, he decided in 1988 to jump ship. While the worlds of visual media, publishing, and finance were still thriving, he said, the “literary” intellectualism of the Trilling-Sontag variety (definition: “a dinner party can become acrimonious over such issues as Freudian analysis”) was extinct, or at least highly endangered. Kristol personally decided to head...
...that time, O'Keeffe had reintroduced color into her work. Her typical canvases were eruptions of soft form, like the cresting fiddleheads of mauve, orange and green in Series I, No. 4, from 1918. But she also worked in a taut, sharp-edged register that produced work like Red & Orange Streak, from the following year. Nothing about a picture like that suggests it's the work of a woman, but from early on, critics treated her paintings as bulletins from the Eternal Feminine. In her plump bulbs of color and shadowy openings they found the swells and inlets...