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She may have seen into her mother's attitude with an acuteness much older than her actual years.
For the statements which are made about pleasure are not expressed with any great acuteness or refinement.
And with his usual acuteness of perception he quickly separated the important from the momentarily unimportant.
He remembered with vivid acuteness every incident of his interview with the officer two nights ago.
My sorrows have been alleviated and lost their acuteness from a firm belief in closer reunion in eternity.
His acuteness soon found reasons for that course; the warmth of his emotions enforced the reasons.
In such a progression the pleasures of life become more, but the acuteness of suffering is also increased.
Sensitivity, the ability to discriminate between grades of sensation or acuteness of perception is another thyroid quality.
I will mention one or two instances which strikingly illustrate the acuteness of Laura's sense of touch.
Marshall, (a gentleman who seems to reason with great acuteness), which illustrates this part of our subject.
Mental acuteness appears in the guessing games, as well as in chess and many games of cards.
He had the feverish eye of a man whose subsistence depends upon speculative acuteness and restless calculation.
The solution, however, of this question, will probably be found in the superior acuteness of its senses.
I had read and taught, in my lectures, that fasting increases acuteness in the sense of touch.
"Oh, they were just sitting out one dance," said the man with her, displaying an unexpected acuteness.
In gravity, in acuteness, in his noble battle with a great calamity, it was beyond the rest.
This nerve has different degrees of development in different animals, in proportion to their acuteness of smell.
A child shows an extraordinary acuteness of perception at an age when its hand is still very clumsy.
This may be said, indeed, to be nothing more than acuteness of intellect applied in a particular way.
Why the country should begin to feel the acuteness of social wrong before the town is sufficiently obvious.
Had they exercised half that acuteness on facts and experiments, they had been truly great men.
The tortures of hell cannot exceed in acuteness all that I suffered that long and bitter night.
The acuteness of hearing indispensable for repeating the sounds is therefore present before the ability to repeat.
And her deep attachment to the family was also a source of pain and suffering because of its acuteness.
Said one of the seniors after a pause, and with an intense belief in the acuteness of the suggestion.
In the lower animals it is less or more extensive, according to the degree of acuteness of this sense.
With the acuteness of one with his affliction, his ears had caught the commotion in the shop.
His position is maintained with all the acuteness, ingenuity, and logical skill which mark his earlier writings.
He was a man of handsome appearance, with normal olfactory acuteness and sensibility to touch and pain.
Indeed, every rabbi, if he possesses sufficient acuteness, is to be viewed as a living commentary on the Talmud.
Her portrait, which I have seen, represents a thin but pleasing countenance, expressive of great intellectual acuteness.
Time passed very slowly, but rather from intensity of interest, acuteness of minute observation, than from boredom.
In fact, she rather appeared to admire his acuteness in turning such shady knowledge to his own advantage.
Milton's loss of sight was accompanied by domestic sorrow, though perhaps not felt with special acuteness.
This angle is very much diminished by our artificial head-dresses, and to the detriment of acuteness of hearing.
It is still more frequently the case that visual acuteness is stated to be less than it is in reality.
I will not insult your own acuteness by saying how unnecessary I feel any reply to your demand.
She received in return a look which, with all her acuteness, she found it extremely difficult to interpret.
Many curious instances are recorded, where the loss of one sense has added to the acuteness of others.
She complimented his acuteness, in the remark, "You see I've only come to chat," and entered his room.
True, through his extraordinary acuteness the Sultan has mitigated many mistakes resulting from his defective education.
From living constantly in the open air, the nomadic Arabs acquire a remarkable acuteness in all their senses.
Memory reproduced for him with an acuteness like actual pain, a childish torment he thought he had forgotten.
He was bold and striking in his style; had great originality of conception, and remarkable logical acuteness.
They do not, however, in the least comprehend how such a sense can work with such acuteness.
There was a seriousness about himself which was combined with but little acuteness: he almost threatened them.
The hand is, however, much assisted by the eye, whose acuteness detects deficiencies and redundancies at once.
This is a work marked by acuteness, great industry, and an objective point of view which merits respect.
His strength hurt her, and yet she found a curious pleasure in the very acuteness of her sensations.
"The reason is that your extraordinary acuteness leads the conversation into certain lines of thought," answered the inspector.
With the same remarkable acuteness in distinguishing things, is their law respecting not touching fire on the Sabbath.
Now he wanted to establish his ability, to demonstrate the acuteness of hearing for which he was famous.
With the wonderful acuteness of perception that was peculiar to him, he observed the beginning of this change.
College would have been his chronic medicine, and the old lady's acuteness in seeing it impressed him forcibly.
Cried Julia, starting to her feet, while her indignation actually tended to mitigate the acuteness of her grief.
Do we not perceive, also, something of this acuteness in the sense of touch under certain other conditions?
There is, in fact, hardly a page of his work in which some such acuteness may not be found.
For him, at any rate, the matter was settled and the acuteness of Biddy Joyce finally established.
By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.
The only notice taken of the observation seemed to hint at a further acuteness for McClintock to reckon with.
She has borrowed some of my books, and seemed to show a considerable acuteness in her remarks on them.
With all his own acuteness, Sir Robert showed that the writer could not be a practical astronomer.
I know nothing in the world in which human acuteness has been more displayed or exercised than in that
Johnson seemed to his biographer, to show, by this ready answer, the acuteness of his wit and discernment.
The traveler soon forgets his sufferings and at every future journey their recurrence is attended with diminished acuteness.
He was so notable for his acuteness and industry, that every effort was made to bring him back.
The traveler soon forgets his sufferings, and at every future journey their recurrence is attended with diminished acuteness.
And slapping his knee in an ecstasy at his own acuteness, he laughed in his seat till he rolled again.
I could put no clue in her hand that her notorious acuteness would make of the smallest use to her.
This was fortunate for her because when she expressed it she relieved the acuteness of her own feeling.
In the valleys among these hills I picked up shells remarkable for the acuteness of their spiral points.
The pointed style is carried in it to an acuteness in which all grace and flexibility of line is lost.
She keeps her eyes closed, it is true, but the acuteness of her other senses supplies their place.
Grenville analyzed them with his usual acuteness, and condemned the conduct of the Government as weak and inconsistent.
He listened with all the acuteness of which he was master, and his keen ears did not deceive him.
Intellectual acuteness, mastery of faculty, elegance of expression, are something very different from insight into the meaning of life.
We have permitted to the reader this opportunity of exercising his acuteness, while laying a little trap for him.
But the impression is fleeting, and serves only to give a greater acuteness to the enjoyment of the moment.
The time necessary to recognize a given letter increases greatly, when the limit of visual acuteness has been reached.
In general, criminals show great sensibility to metals; in hysterical persons this sensibility reaches an extraordinary degree of acuteness.
One must see how far the other qualifications, accuracy, acuteness of observation, and judgment, are also brought into action.
This address was heard by Ormond without surprise; but his countenance betrayed the acuteness of his feelings.
Whitman is a writer of remarkable acuteness and richness, as is shown by her essays on the Transcendental Philosophy.
The old horror woke up again with an acuteness that for the moment seemed greater than he could bear.
The well-known conditions of a good memory, such as acuteness of sensation, order, and repetition, Augustine notices only incidentally.
Gladstone, has just made it the subject of three articles, which are remarkable alike for acuteness, elegance, and eloquence.
As for escaping the doctor's acuteness by any disguise should he meet her face to face, that was impossible.
Is there any possibility of restoring it to normal acuteness, or of improving it, or of preventing any further impairment?
Thought is a labor to which few are competent; and truth requires for its development as much courage as acuteness.
"I am your man," remarked a youth, perhaps twenty-two years of age, whose countenance at once suggested acuteness and cunning.
There is not much disinterested thought in a situation of this kind, but there is a strong stimulus to acuteness.
I really know something which has escaped the acuteness of Aunt Naomi, and I feel greatly puffed up in consequence.
We are very much favored, as much by the acuteness of our senses as by the purity of our skies.
I, who was so proud of my own acuteness and ability to penetrate where others failed to see a way!
There is learning, there is research, there is acuteness, there is even good taste, but originality and eloquence are extinct.
The Prince grows up in seclusion, acquires all manner of learning, and exhibits singular endowments of wisdom and acuteness.
You, Maximus, with great acuteness saw through his designs and ordered him to renew his original accusation in person.
And when the sense of physical weariness came back, that seemed to dull the acuteness of his spiritual torment.
This is so because there is no scale by which to calculate awareness as there is in dealing with educational acuteness.
The eyes of science have been fixed upon it; and the acuteness of criticism has been brought to bear on it.