How To Use Acuteness In A Sentence
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Her sense of touch has sensibly increased during the year, and has gained in acuteness and delicacy.
The Story of My Life
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This movement sounded a bit broader than I am used to or would have expected: it plays with acuteness and every note gets its accentuation, its declamation.
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It was this hyperacuteness that made him decide that he was being stalked.
Tunnel In The Sky
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Another hazard of being a former president, it seems, is that you feel the force of your successors' policy reversals with all the acuteness of personal slights.
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The skis cut through space and I perceive the steepness of the slope with extraordinary acuteness.
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With equal acuteness and adaptation to character, he dedicated the poems to the Prince of Wales, an anacreontic hero.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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he argued with great acuteness
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The acuteness and expanse of his vision, his documentary power, and his grace and skill as an artist make his work devastatingly, frighteningly immediate.
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Anxiety, hope, and even fatigue itself, had imparted to his body the fictitious strength of fever, and to his intellect the unhealthy acuteness which is so often the result of intense mental effort.
Monsieur Lecoq
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The intelligence and analytical acuteness you bring to the site have been an inspiration to me.
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Of his controversies, those against Popery are the most powerful, because there he had subtleties and obscure reading to contend against; and his wit, acuteness, and omnifarious learning found stuff to work on.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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But is it true what people say about the acuteness of senses of smell and taste being linked?
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Up to twice a day 1,000 mcg, depending acuteness of the disease.
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I may have been ever so much an exception in acuteness of observation, powers of comparison, and abnormal self-consciousness; none the less were my thoughts and conduct typical of the attitude of the intelligent immigrant child toward American institutions.
The Promised Land
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Prudence -- but not the acuteness which is sometimes confused with prudence -- is incompatible with incontinence, which is least curable when the outcome of weakness.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
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Underlying the rush overseas is the acuteness of Japan's demographic challenges.
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A few months before this time, he would have scorned the idea of concealing any part of his conduct, any one of his actions, from his best friend, Mr Percival; but his pride now reconciled him to the meanness of concealment; and here, the acuteness of him feelings was to his own mind an excuse for dissimulation: so fallacious is moral instinct, unenlightened or uncontrolled by reason and religion.
Belinda
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They may of course manifest themselves in a practically infinite number of permutations, and the precritical reader may relish such psychological fiction as that of Dostoevsky or Flaubert for the subtlety and acuteness with which those authors portray the presumably universal and static varieties of affective experience.
PKD and Style
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It doesn't work quickly for everyone, it depends on the acuteness of the complaint and how long it's been there.
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Women acuteness wet wart in the clitoris, the size of the labia minora and perianal, perineum, vagina, and cervical also can emerge.
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dogs have a remarkable acuteness of smell
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Filmmakers like Bruno Dumont seem to possess an acuteness that allows them to disingenuously suggest the multifarious nature of the beauty and humour that comprise life.
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If we examine crystals carefully we find, not only that nature has here provided geometric forms of marvelous beauty and exactness, with faces of polish and quoins of acuteness equal to the work of the most skillful lapidist, "but that in whatever manner or under whatever circumstances a crystal may have been formed, whether in the laboratory of the chemist or the workshop of nature, in the bodies of animals or the tissues of plants, up in the sky or in the depths of the earth, whether so rapidly that we may literally see its growth, or by the slow aggregation of its molecules during perhaps thousands of years, we always find that the arrangement of the faces is subject to fixed and definite laws.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
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The early return of sensation, even if modified in acuteness, was always a very hopeful sign; also the production of formication in the area of distribution of the nerve on manipulation of the injured spot.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
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He shaved hairs from the back of his hand, glanced along the edge with microscopic acuteness, and found, or feigned that he found, always, a slight inequality in its edge somewhere.
Chapter 9
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These pursuits require mental acuteness, intellectual agility and detailed analysis.
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The phenomena persisted from periods of a few hours to two or three days, return of function being first noticeable in the sensory nerves, and often with modification in the way of lowered acuteness, or minor signs of irritation, such as formication, slight hyperæsthesia or pain, pointing to a combination with the least extensive degrees of hæmorrhage; later, motor power was rapidly regained.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
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This question applies with particular acuteness to the situation of hermits or solitaries.
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As the acuteness of this remorse began to die away, it was succeeded by a sense of joy.
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Agitated by these reflections, which put sleep at defiance, Esther continued at her post, listening with that sort of acuteness which is termed instinct in the animals a few degrees below her in the scale of intelligence, for any of those noises which might indicate the approach of footsteps.
The Prairie
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Each of these objections, rebuttals, rejoinders, and surrejoinders is in itself admirable, and does infinite credit to the acuteness and candour of the author.
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Chamber of Commerce: "The Americans, with their vast and almost incalculable resources, their acuteness and enterprise, and their huge population, which will probably be 100,000,000 in twenty years, together with the plan they have adopted for putting accumulated wealth into great cooperative syndicates or trusts for the purpose of carrying on this great commercial warfare, are the most formidable ... rivals to be feared.
THE QUESTION OF THE MAXIMUM
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It was indeed but a passing trance, that only made me feel with renewed acuteness so soon as, the unnatural stimulus ceasing to operate, I had returned to my old habits.
Chapter 4
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These pursuits require mental acuteness, intellectual agility and detailed analysis.
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“Guardian.” his Sermon on the Deity is characterized as equalling, “in acuteness of judgment, ornaments of speech, and true sublimity, the choicest writings of the fathers.”
Private Thoughts Upon Religion and a Christian Life; to which is Added the Necessity and Advantage of Frequent Communion. Volume I.
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He advanced and retreated, "bluffed" and held aloof, with acuteness and daring.
The Plum Tree
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I. ii.32 (164,2) She's a good sign] [W: shine] There is acuteness enough in this note, yet I believe the poet meant nothing by _sign_, but _fair outward_ shew.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
