How To Use Keenly In A Sentence

  • Now, a company in Minnesota is keenly interested in testing the soybean hull adsorbents.
  • Animals are humanized, that is, the kinship between animal and human life is still keenly felt, and this reminds us of those early animistic interpretations of nature which subsequently led to doctrines of metempsychosis. The Art of the Story-Teller
  • Millner, keenly aware that an aromatic savarin au rhum was describing an arc behind his head previous to being rushed back to the pantry under young Draper's indifferent eye, stiffened himself against this last assault of the enemy, and read out firmly: "What relation do you consider that a man's business conduct should bear to his religious and domestic life? The Blond Beast
  • The second half was keenly fought, but neither side managed to score.
  • I was feeling the exhaustion keenly - but not enough to make a complete ass of myself during choir, which inched by like a violist playing Paganini caprices.
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  • Both started this keenly-anticipated derby, Ryan at stand-off and Alex at loose forward.
  • In fact, Diane enjoyed these delightful juvenilities all the more keenly because she knew that she could put an end to them at any moment. Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
  • This, unfortunately, is a human condition we are now finally becoming keenly “aware” of. Legalizing drug user possession
  • The proprioceptive sense is so keenly developed in our arboreal brethren that little if any visual correction is required. My latest foray | clusterflock
  • he was keenly aware of his own shortcomings
  • His family had been devout Hindus, keenly persuaded of the importance of group loyalties. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
  • The sullen-faced Xavier glowered in surly silence, but the malignant, beady eyes of Du Mont regarded the officer keenly. The Gun-Brand
  • He is keenly interested in classical English literature.
  • Although some villas in holiday resorts do appear to be priced very keenly, you will often find that they are only the size of a good one-bed apartment at home.
  • Knight, somewhat blamably, keenly enjoyed sparring with the palpitating mobile creature, whose excitable nature made any such thing a species of cruelty. A Pair of Blue Eyes
  • + The second sort (odium inimicitiae, or hostility) aims directly at the person, indulges a propensity to see what is evil and unlovable in him, feels a fierce satisfaction at anything tending to his discredit, and is keenly desirous that his lot may be an unmixedly hard one, either in general or in this or that specified way. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • Nobody will feel this sense of slight anticlimax more keenly than the Prime Minister. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hurtling through the air, it seemed, with a sense of fierce speed, the varied clangors of the train, the ringing of the rails, the frequent hoarse blasts of the whistle, the jangling of the metallic fixtures, the jarring of the window-panes, all were keenly differentiated by her exacerbated and sensitive perceptions, and each had its own peculiar irritation. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
  • Mrs Southern listened keenly, occasionally breaking in with pertinent questions.
  • Judges moving among the audience keenly observed the working models and rated the best projects.
  • a keenly analytic man
  • Certain it is that he was keenly alive to the osmic accompaniment of every person or natural object. Janey Canuck in the West
  • She relies on us to see through folly and hypocrisy as keenly as she does herself. Times, Sunday Times
  • For that business man down in the sharp competition of the world where duty calls him, to resist the sly temptations to overreach, to keep keenly alert not to be overreached; and through all to preserve an uncensorious spirit, unhurt by the selfishness of the crowd -- tell me, some of you men -- _will that not take power_? Quiet Talks on Power
  • It was the press who probably felt most keenly his enigmatic, contradictory nature. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
  • Philips's abounding energies were most keenly consumed in exploiting the vast commercial opportunities of the 1790s.
  • The contest should be very keenly fought.
  • I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago.
  • As we got on with the job, I found myself keenly interested.
  • She has also chewed through one pair of my slippers and is keenly eyeing up the next. Times, Sunday Times
  • The hero rubbed his fine, blessed necklace and frowned in thought, fingering the keenly wrought gold.
  • As a professional keenly aware of the complexities involved with body image, I've ached at particular moments when Oprah's actions lent direct endorsement to the diet industry's marketing gurus, reinforcing messages that encourage striving for a body size, shape, and image discrepant from one that can be sustained with a healthy approach. The Dieting Dilemma: Oprah Finally Gets It
  • Whatever the eventual afterworld destination of the people involved, one imagines that they are keenly alive to their own survival.
  • Set against the broad backdrop of the 2008 presidential campaign — when politicians were crisscrossing his path in pursuit of fluttery voters — and the more intimate focus of a family health crisis, the book stitches together keenly observed moments in the lives of butterflies, birds, plants and the people who care about them. Butterfly Quest
  • She was suddenly keenly aware off all the little pricks on her skin, where mosquitoes, the rotten little bloodsuckers, were feasting on her exposed flesh.
  • It was afternoon, twilight yet out of doors: starless and moonless twilight; for, though keenly freezing with a dry, black frost, heaven wore a mask of clouds congealed and fast-locked. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
  • She has also chewed through one pair of my slippers and is keenly eyeing up the next. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rob Pegoraro: Last month, I had the chance to sit down with a guy keenly interested in long-term archival of data -- Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle. Personal Tech Live with Rob Pegoraro
  • Those of Cherie's friends who do talk insist that she is generous, warm-hearted, dependable, but they are also keenly aware that she has demonstrated repeatedly that she is a vengeful ex.
  • Queen Christina was keenly interested in music both before and after her abdication.
  • But will the spotlight's glare hamper the refining process she keenly needs? Times, Sunday Times
  • Business leaders would lose no time in pointing out the obvious: that for business to succeed it has to be keenly attuned to a market place that subsumes myriad customer tastes, concerns and preferences.
  • At a time of undersupply anything that's built, as long as it's keenly priced, will sell. Times, Sunday Times
  • As a psychologist and educator, she was keenly aware of individual differences.
  • The initial impact of the reforms will be felt most keenly in primary schools.
  • Sholom Aleichem is known as the Jewish Mark Twain, but Bikel enlarges and ennobles the man in ways that turn the world's greatest Yiddish writer into the living embodiment of Huckleberry Finn -- keenly observing the end of the 19th Century in Europe and Russia, the dawn of Jewish life in America, and the incremental death of Yiddish culture that was foreshadowed in that migration. Thane Rosenbaum: Tevye From Fiddler Back With Bikel
  • Its constituent parts sometimes lack much in the way of structure or resolution, but are always lively and keenly observed. Times, Sunday Times
  • They're keenly aware that whatever they decide will set a precedent.
  • That rare possibility of self-contemplation which comes in any complete severance from our wonted life made her judge herself as she had never done before: the compunction which is inseparable from a sympathetic nature keenly alive to the possible experience of others, began to stir in her with growing force. Romola
  • He enjoyed good food and wine and keenly sought out the best restaurants in any place he visited for work. Times, Sunday Times
  • And sitting here surrounded with roses and with that languorous lilt in her ear, Crystal felt as if she too were under the influence of some unseen Mesmer, who had lulled the activity of her brain into a kind of wakeful sleep even while her senses remained keenly, vitally on the alert. The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
  • Simon Keenlyside sings "Fin ch'han dal vino" from Don Giovanni (Abbado conducting): The Soul of Wit
  • It was the high-flying brent who, knowing how the sensitive girl, made keenly conscious at every turn of her defective training and ingenuous ignorance, had often watched their evening flight with longing gaze, now "honked" dismally at the recollection. The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales
  • Keenly sensitive to these insults, Raglan had to grapple with a French command whose sense of purpose seemed infirm.
  • Yorkshire racing tomorrow is centred on the course, where the horse makes his keenly-awaited fencing debut in the chase.
  • The rest of the media reflected this view of an activist President keenly pursuing a policy he deeply believed in.
  • He wanted to assuage her desperation as keenly, almost, as he wanted to atone to Nuala for the misfortune which had befallen her. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
  • I have never seen farce more keenly orchestrated and sanguinely enacted, the blatantly laughable always tinged with the bitingly caricatural, the fantastic, and the outrageous, without the slightest loss in basic humanity.
  • As an academic, I am keenly and yet all too often insufficiently aware of the issue of using technical terms as a convenient shorthand in a way that, for anyone listening in on the class who had not had the term explained, would obscure meaning rather than convey it more clearly. Archive 2007-12-01
  • For Orpington is the seat that has traditionally been most keenly contested by all parties in this part of the world. Amongst small businesses and local good causes
  • Beattie stripped him of all his assumed dignity, and having laid his back bare, scourged him till he smarted keenly, and cursed again.
  • Its constituent parts sometimes lack much in the way of structure or resolution, but are always lively and keenly observed. Times, Sunday Times
  • He felt keenly that the banker ought to be shaken out.
  • Then Gran fusses him and Sixth licks keenly at her livery hand, hoping to find more.
  • Benson paused, half vexed at his volubility, and gazed keenly at CHAPTER V
  • The initial impact of the reforms will be felt most keenly in primary schools.
  • We were keenly aware of the danger.
  • She has also chewed through one pair of my slippers and is keenly eyeing up the next. Times, Sunday Times
  • Manx takes a klondike swig and keenly feels the effect, oh yes, as the Irish aerates a number of crucial passages in his head and chest. Underworld
  • It was the press who probably felt most keenly his enigmatic, contradictory nature. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
  • Rarely does one hear sound as vibrant and keenly phrased as Ma's at a dance concert.
  • He was greatly admired by his colleagues who were keenly aware of his sense of fairness and integrity. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was the press who probably felt most keenly his enigmatic, contradictory nature. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
  • The initial impact of the reforms will be felt most keenly in primary schools.
  • With a shove, Stephanie pushes Jessica sideways onto the bed and moves to the telephone keeping her gun keenly trained on Jessica.
  • He remained keenly alive to the dangers.
  • That's why, among the cognoscenti of the sport, there has never been a swimming meet more keenly anticipated than the 2004 Athens Olympics.
  • Berenice," demanded Stanford, regarding her keenly, "do you mean to marry _him_? The Puritans
  • The city looked dark to the south, while numerous lights along the near shores, and the beautiful aspect of the banks reposing in placid night, the waters keenly reflecting the heavenly lights, gave to this beauteous river a dower of loveliness that might have characterized a retreat in Paradise. II.2
  • Blake is tiny, pink, beautiful in his miniature perfection; but it is perhaps Rohan who stabs most keenly at your heart.
  • You are subtle and gracious yet keenly perceptive and observant at work, missing nothing but noting every detail or omission.
  • Listening keenly and swishing deftly, we pinpointed the noises to be coming from the small portable radiator that sat against the wall of my sisters room.
  • As the journalist Tunku Varadarjan wrote, "a poorly assembled lunch can ruin a day at the Test match", and the history of cricketing packed lunches is keenly cherished ideally cricket food comes in small shareable parts: the oozing sandwich slow-cooked in its tinfoil, the flaking samosa, the impossible joy of crisps. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
  • Keenly aware that youth unemployment has been a driving factor in revolutions elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa, and that half of its own population is 18 or younger, the government is taking steps to change a mindset left from the days when the oil kingdom's citizens were few and jobs were many: that Saudi Arabia's citizens take the cushiest jobs or take no jobs at all. Saudis Push Young People, Including Women, Into Jobs
  • The central administration of the Modular Course has always been keenly aware of the burden falling on Field Chairs.
  • Mem'sab's eyes looked keenly into her friend's, easily defeating the concealment of the veil about her features. Werehunter
  • It is this approach that makes him so keenly attuned to the needs of plants - a plant whisperer of sorts.
  • These folks shop at regular supermarkets yet are keenly sensitive to environmental issues.
  • She has also chewed through one pair of my slippers and is keenly eyeing up the next. Times, Sunday Times
  • The militantly secular world is also keenly alert to the challenge of the Passion.
  • Grant, despite his subsequent reputation as a President of little vision or initiative, was more keenly interested in an isthmian canal than any of his predecessors had been. The Path Between the Seas
  • Hooch's wise eyes followed those capable fingers, keenly, moistly, from behind their thick but clear bifocal lenses. BEHINDLINGS
  • As usual, winterbournes will fail and the stream network shrink through the summer but, in the event of continuing limited rainfall, the hydrological impact will be felt most keenly in streams draining impermeable catchments.
  • For as he that only punishes a sin and does nothing to point out its most extreme lawlessness, produces no such great effect by his chastisement: so again, he who only abashes and fails to terrify by his mode of punishing, does not very keenly hit men of hardened minds. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
  • The author keenly examines higher education and the contradiction inherent in its exclusionary nature thriving amidst a democracy.
  • She was a mischievous newsmonger, and was keenly wondering what the effect of her words would be. Sister Carrie
  • I have been following keenly the developments in the treason trial of the secessionists.
  • In spite of her friendly sympathy, he never felt so keenly his alienism as in her presence. Tales From Two Hemispheres
  • As a journalist living in the most expensive city in the country, I am keenly alive to to the issue.
  • The prothonotary was a suave and diplomatic elder who seemed keenly interested in the small monk's life. A Canticle for Leibowitz
  • His family had been devout Hindus, keenly persuaded of the importance of group loyalties. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
  • Mrs Southern listened keenly, occasionally breaking in with pertinent questions.
  • For the older boys and girls there were quad bikes and for the young horse enthusiasts there was the keenly contested junior hunt chase, and pony club games.
  • As a committed family man he would have felt those tragedies keenly.
  • With Julia Child and Larousse leading the shortcrust charge, ranged against the might of Raymond Blanc and Britain's finest pastry chef, Claire Clark, formerly of the French Laundry, in the puff camp, this was going to be a keenly contested battle. How to cook perfect tarte tatin
  • University societies keenly await his arrival. Times, Sunday Times
  • His eyes were a very, very light gray, his expression pleasant; despite his elegant, expensive-looking clothes, it was easy to imagine him on the deck of a ship, peering keenly into the distance. Clockwork Angel
  • It was the most keenly fought election in American history and one that went truly global.
  • He is keenly alive to the risks—and occasional risibility—of American-style consumerism. Spend It or Save It?
  • In Erlangen, the University keenly promoted the science of eugenics.
  • University societies keenly await his arrival. Times, Sunday Times
  • In this sequence one keenly felt humanity's complex, wavering and unresolvable attitudes to life and death. Times, Sunday Times
  • Keenly mortified by the dullness of his senses and instincts, he knew he was no companion for Swinburne.
  • The medal is being keenly contested by eight gymnasts.
  • The old lady looked keenly at her, and replied, "Count Mirabeau is gone away, no one knows where; he disappeared the day after his visit to you, so probably you had the last of him - for, before he comes back, he will no doubt have got into some scrape that will banish him out of good society. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
  • The glamour and glitz of the event is keenly awaited - after all it is touted to be the ‘first of its kind,’ in terms of bringing all the stars together on one stage.
  • Those of Cherie's friends who do talk insist that she is generous, warm-hearted, dependable, but they are also keenly aware that she has demonstrated repeatedly that she is a vengeful ex.
  • He is keenly interested in classical English literature.
  • Initially some may be felt very keenly such as shock and disbelief at being made redundant. Life Without Work
  • It was a natural growth for a vital composer who had her ears keenly attuned to new developments, and could selectively integrate what she wanted into her own personal idiom.
  • She was keenly interested in craftwork, especially embroidery.
  • I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago.
  • They were keenly aware of their sinfulness and eager to undertake the hardships of the Crusade as a penitential act of charity and love.
  • They enjoy keenly touching any soft pleasant surface, and become exceedingly keen in discriminating between the differences in the sandpaper cards. The Montessori Method
  • Since the Chinese literati discovered Homer at the beginning of the twentieth century, they have keenly felt the lack of a national epic poem, their own traditional fiction of knight-errant wuxia stories being considered too episodic and prosaic. Jamyang Norbu: Language, Identity & Revolution in Tibet
  • Run over three nights, the league was keenly contested with the outcome in doubt to the very end.
  • They are keenly priced and made ethically and well by adults in a clean factory with many fire escapes and wheelchair ramps. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was also keenly aware of the quality of his readership - many of them top-notch bloggers in their own right.
  • In a little town called Mulot, the people taking tea in the little room they call a hotel listened keenly to the Mzee in a torn old coat.
  • These holy relics were keenly sought after as the people saw their purchase as a way of pleasing God.
  • The medal is being keenly contested by eight gymnasts.
  • Monkeys gambolled from here to there, keenly aware that their sport afforded a fair chance of a good snatch, so he spent most of lunch snarling with a stick.
  • I had many a friend among the villagers, both there and at Bangalang, and when the "barker" came from the Isles _de Loss_ with the news of my capture and misery, the settlement had been keenly astir until it was known that Mongo Téodore was safe and sound among his protectors. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
  • Second, our work with lacertids helped make us both keenly aware of the importance of phylogeny and phylogenetic control in comparative biology.
  • The central administration of the Modular Course has always been keenly aware of the burden falling on Field Chairs.
  • My sexual nature, though normal, has been keenly alive and sensitive as far back as I can remember; and as I look back I discern within myself in early childhood what I now understand to be a decided masochistic or passively algolagnic tendency. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
  • They are as keenly felt by the African tribesman as by the European city-dweller, by the inhabitant of a Latin American shanty-town as by the resident of a Manhattan apartment.
  • To think the jestress, Jacqueline, should turn out the daughter of that traitor, the Constable of Dubrois," she observed, keenly. Under the Rose
  • Black women in pornography are keenly aware of how their sexuality is fetishized and marketed in films that are distributed and seen all over the United States and elsewhere in the world.
  • Rather than keenly tuning into the in-depth coverage of Newsnight or Channel 4 News, the only reports I'm hearing are the brief and sketchy bulletins on Xfm in the morning, as I get ready for work.
  • The sullen-faced Xavier glowered in surly silence, but the malignant, beady eyes of Du Mont regarded the officer keenly. The Gun-Brand
  • Now he felt his inexperience keenly, and he had to leave it to the likes of Curio and Lucullus, Catulus and Isauricus, to question Nepos. CONSPIRATA
  • Wallace was keenly aware of his narrative flailings, and exploited those insecurities to draw the reader in; he began sentences with informalities like "And so but then," slathered his text in footnotes, fetishized abbreviation. David Foster Wallace: Reflecting on the late author | EW.com
  • But in this keenly competitive world your crop may become more marketable the more information about it you supply.
  • We took off our climbing gear and started to fan out over the rocks, keenly searching for fossils.
  • And, because of the mid-January unveiling of new models and products, it is keenly watched by the boating industry.
  • His keenly a foetid seyhan in this surreal and i arthrosporic countersubversion a anachronism to a trilby that had noncollapsible so sleekly for staphylinidae. monoicous in the reexamination anapurna and civilized the recombinant air as the ostensible atonia approach were fingered to backlighting clothesless flu if any of the bracteal improvised was bedraggled. Rational Review
  • Our incumbent politicians are keenly aware of Canadians' progressive values and Americans' sociopolitical rigidity.
  • I began by reading aloud an anacreontic, adding to its beauties by the modulation of my voice, and keenly enjoying her pleasure at finding her work so fair.
  • At a time of undersupply anything that's built, as long as it's keenly priced, will sell. Times, Sunday Times
  • They are keenly priced and made ethically and well by adults in a clean factory with many fire escapes and wheelchair ramps. Times, Sunday Times
  • But will the spotlight's glare hamper the refining process she keenly needs? Times, Sunday Times
  • Jefferson felt keenly the situation, and at the expiration of his term retired to Monticello, humiliated and overwhelmed by unjust criticism and undeserved censure. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
  • In a keenly fought contest, neither team could be faulted for the lack of effort.
  • “Where you were locked up with the Jewess in the tower,” was a remark, too, of which Wilfrid keenly felt, and perhaps the reader will understand, the significancy. Burlesques
  • As we got on with the job, I found myself keenly interested.
  • Odd. In June 2008, Fox Sports Chairman David Hill said Fox was "absolutely, keenly interested" in bidding and, with the 2014 Games in Russia, he added: "I'm a huge fan of caviar — on Russian blintzes; it's fabulous. Sly Fox? Hard to tell with Olympic bidding
  • The rivalry lives on today with the team prize of a two-handed claymore still keenly contested between Scottish and English clubs.
  • Mr Augustine will be keenly aware that this expense is a pittance compared to the costs of sticking with an overly ambitious requirement that is such a huge cost driver. Dear Mr. Augustine - NASA Watch
  • Now that I live in the city, the need for a bit of light relief amid the concrete and the traffic is felt more keenly than ever.
  • AS THERE are persons whose expression fascinates and wins us through something that we keenly feel but cannot clearly understand, so is it also true of some natural scenes. A JOURNEY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN 1839
  • The weighing scales took pride of place on the counter and I was keenly interested on the large coil of twine and stack of brown paper which were used to keep everyone's messages together.
  • Many are, in fact, wonderstruck, when they speak of their children's ability to keenly observe things.
  • He felt, what possibly the primitive and pure of heart feel most keenly ... the presence of the Great Unknown, He who is the fountain source of love, and whose hands on the sable parchment of the northern skies perchance write, in irid traceries of fire, mystic messages of hope which none, of all humanity, during all the centuries, has ever learned entirely to understand. The Eternal Maiden
  • Mr. Prasad, born and brought up in Munnar, described as ‘Goat's own country ’, is a renowned wildlife photographer who has keenly followed the Nilgiri tahr for the past 25 years.
  • The decentralization imperative implicit in factoring problems runs into the co-ordination imperative felt keenly by the executive political and administrative elite.
  • This might be a game bought for kids, but you get the feeling that it is their parents who will be playing it most keenly.
  • 'A pretty expression you have in your countenance, 'she went on, still gazing keenly, though not inimically, rather indeed pityingly at Caroline. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
  • Buoyant gnocchi are brought down to earth by porcini mushrooms and a translucent but keenly flavored prosciutto.
  • But will the spotlight's glare hamper the refining process she keenly needs? Times, Sunday Times
  • Unless keenly interested in what you and Ross have to say, I fear that most visitors will have a squiz, find a complex interlayering of argument, rebuttal etc and leave. Hits « Climate Audit
  • I am keenly aware of and have studied the webcasting situation in depth, and was an expert witness at the proceeding.
  • And India, as the most representative democratic country and the leader of the nonalignment campaign, promptly became an important object to keenly approach and ally with.
  • Ade is the man keenly awake to the change.
  • All games were keenly contested and several matches were decided on tiebreakers.
  • Panelists agreed that individual tracks have to be keenly aware of the schedules of each track during every day and avoid overlaps in races when possible.
  • The FSF has argued with that ever since, that the response to a disaster caused by a negligent approach to fans' safety became an opportunity for "crowd control": to police potential hooliganism more keenly and gentrify the grounds. Fans' terrace campaign still standing but facing an uphill battle| David Conn
  • This was a keenly fought contest between two evenly matched teams.
  • The officials are keenly aware they risk ruffling customers by straying outside the boundaries of its conservative styling.
  • We all keenly await the resurrection of the matter and a thorough investigation must commence immediately.
  • When he roused himself from his thoughtful quest, he fancied from the turn of the hand, and its situation in reference to himself, that the Unseen Eyes were looking at him keenly. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 4 The Last of the Three Spirits | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
  • He is keenly interested in classical English literature.
  • I was keenly aware of the dangers.
  • Simply put, no Volvo has steered as crisply or cornered as keenly as this one, or has connected with its driver so interactively.
  • All games were keenly contested and several matches were decided on tiebreakers.
  • Through excellent communication media, they are keenly aware of conditions and events in the outside world.
  • “I think the fact that your anti-torture fundamentalism is so unpopular with the American public is precisely because Americans are keenly aware of the possibilities of ticking time bombs and city-destroying nuclear weapons that you prefer to ignore or dismiss.” Matthew Yglesias » The Real Torture Debate
  • ONE of the most keenly awaited verdicts by any jury will finally be delivered tonight. Times, Sunday Times
  • None was ever so rewardingly admired or so keenly denigrated. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Many normal children who were around watched keenly as she and the other children with mental and physical handicaps displayed their talents.
  • A keenly observant writer, he turns his story into an amusingly bleak X-ray of present-day Korea, whose people are as interested in Bart Simpson as Kim Jong Il. Along the way, we meet a huge array of sharply drawn social types - comedians and tax cheats, porn addicts and schoolteachers, spoiled college kids and former student radicals like Ma-ri, who find their generational dreams of national reunification curdling into desperate adulteries. A Kafkaesque Spy Thriller Straddles Two Koreas
  • She said it as if it was something keenly interesting, some juicy gossip.
  • A lost weekend is a keenly social event that largely plays out in bars, so you won't need to lay in the kind of alcohol stores you'd need for a bender.
  • He said he had worked in the field of mental health recovery and was keenly aware of a patient's vulnerability.
  • Mark Elder conducts a starry cast, led by Simon Keenlyside and Vesselina Kasarova, with a rare cameo appearance (in London) by the veteran Renato Bruson.
  • In the 1870s, and even more in the 1880s and 1890s, the need to sacralize politics and squeeze out the rival religions of Catholicism and socialism was keenly felt by many within Italy's ruling elite.
  • The weighing scales took pride of place on the counter and I was keenly interested on the large coil of twine and stack of brown paper which were used to keep everyone's messages together.
  • There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted. Francois de La Rochefoucauld 
  • He is keenly interested in classical English literature.

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