How To Use Keenness In A Sentence

  • 'Oh, atrocious!' it shrieks, in agony, and in anger too, as if the very keenness of the infliction were a proof of its injustice. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
  • His speech fired the people with keenness for the plan.
  • His speech fired the people with keenness for the plan.
  • Ordinarily, his interest as an inventor wanes in proportion to the approach to mere commercialism -- in other words, the keenness of his pleasure is in overcoming difficulties rather than the mere piling up of a bank account. Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2
  • “The river-nymphs, as daughters of Oceanus, and thus of immortal parentage, are bound to possess organs of more than mortal keenness; but, as you say, the song was not so bad — erudite, as well as prettily conceived — and, saving for a certain rustical simplicity and monosyllabic baldness, smacks rather of the forests of Castaly than those of Torridge.” Westward Ho!
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  • He epitomised the keenness and competitive spirit of the Great Race as well as that of the racing community as a brotherhood.
  • A few weeks'hard work should damp dawn his keenness.
  • The keenness of his hunger had departed.
  • His headache had departed; his every sense seemed to have gained keenness.
  • Fishers" expresses the ease of their victory over the Jews as that of the angler over fishes; "hunters," the keenness of their pursuit of them into every cave and nook. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • I admired the keenness of his mind
  • At the end, I was greatly impressed by the smartness and keenness of all of them, and by the firmness and intelligence of their questions.
  • The loss of the original keenness (dressed keenness) of the tool cutting edge and the outer comers in the process of cutting is called dulling, its result is called wear. 6. Basic Terms of Cutting
  • The Congress veteran, K. Karunakaran's passion for politics is matched only by his keenness for keeping in the pink of health.
  • His speech fired the people with keenness for the plan.
  • The Northland gives a keenness and zest to the blood which cannot be obtained in warmer climes. CHAPTER 8
  • The only objection he had to make was that the stretta of the second finale was too abrupt, a criticism which proved his keenness of perception; and I was able to show him, by the score, how I had been compelled, much against my inclination, to curtail the opera, and thereby create the position to which he had taken exception. My Life — Volume 1
  • Lord Rochester's frolics in the character of a mountebank are well known, and the speech which he made upon the occasion of his first turning itinerant doctor, has been often printed; there is in it a true spirit of satire, and a keenness of lampoon, which is very much in the character of his lordship, who had certainly an original turn for invective and satirical composition. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
  • The problem is to assess how much of his vision he owed to his elevation, to his position in history and to the work of his predecessors and contemporaries, and how much to the keenness of his own sight.
  • They held their peavies across their bodies as balancing-poles, and zig-zagged ashore with a calmness and lack of haste that were in reality only an indication of the keenness with which they fore-estimated each chance. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
  • By the warmth of his greeting, his natural considerateness and the keenness of his intelligence -- which made his wit so sharp -- he was a delight to be with. A Heavenly Collaboration: Dizzy Gillespie and Dr. Jazz

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