Sentence Examples:
Inquired Helen with annoying acuteness.
His very acuteness deludes him.
What native acuteness in the stealthy eye!
Yet Arabic acuteness makes it interesting, after all.
According to himself, Ireland performed prodigies of acuteness.
Now mark the acuteness of the American mind!
Such acuteness would have been unseemly and unprofessional.
Necessity was sharpening her wits to extraordinary acuteness.
And his senses seemed gifted with preternatural acuteness.
These doubts arise much oftener in lowered visual acuteness.
With what acuteness of vision are these savages endowed!
In nimble, the acuteness of the vowel denotes celerity.
The acuteness of his fright drove away the faintness.
It is characterized by its acuteness, stubbornness, and symmetry.
In this physiognomy we distinguish taste, acuteness and sensibility.
What consummate acuteness; what patient research you have shown!
Bernard's trust in his interlocutor's acuteness was not deceived.
He had been startled by the acuteness of her perception.
My pain gradually lost its acuteness, became appeased and calm.
The rhinoceros has an extraordinary acuteness of smell and hearing.
This celebrated work is replete with erudition, humor, and acuteness.
In acuteness and irregularity it often justifies the term spasmodic.
A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding.
All the passionate acuteness of life seemed throbbing again in his veins.
This hiding-place had been selected and contrived with great acuteness.
She felt the defection of this man with exceeding acuteness.
With all your fancied acuteness, you step blindfold into these affairs.
That extreme sensitiveness to minor irritants became painful in its acuteness.
We find them inquisitive and loquacious; by no means deficient in acuteness.
It would have demanded a preternatural acuteness to hit upon the true cause.
Lanyard repeated, intrigued by the acuteness of this masterful woman's mentality.
Thus, for example, certain religious phenomena surpass others in acuteness or intensity.
Now, without professing any unusual acuteness, I believe that this is a mistake.
A spasmodic twitch of the eyelid betrayed the acuteness of Jock's ocular perception.
White was sure that his acuteness was displeasing to his clever rival.
But his sharpness was the sharpness of acidity and not of acuteness.
He possessed wonderful acuteness of understanding, quickness of perception, and readiness of reply.
He was a man of astonishing talents, sagacity, acuteness, and clearness of head.
President Wilson, with characteristic acuteness and candor, made good use of this opportunity.
But his acuteness of mind and clearness of expression remained to the end.
The acuteness and genius of the chief but make him the more atrocious.'
A refutation of the inference here made does not require the acuteness of an Aristotle.
Molded glass uncut shows no acuteness of edge nor sharpness in the depressions.
The acuteness of the feeling after a time abating, I left the room.
Ah, because there your courage supports him, and your acuteness assists his own.
"The sergeant is right, sir," muttered the soldiers, pleased with his acuteness.
His cleverness and the acuteness of his sense of smell alike astonished me.
These the 'Critical Review' laid hold of with an acuteness sharpened by malignity.
They excel in mathematics, and in legal subtleties their acuteness is most extraordinary.
Then suddenly his craving began to return, sharpening itself instantaneously to hideous acuteness.
Like the Chinese, they do not give their demons credit for much acuteness.
The falling of silence gave an amazing acuteness to his inner sense of hearing.
The Indian is endowed with a far greater acuteness of sense than the European.
The astute mind adds to acuteness and keenness an element of cunning or finesse.
His acuteness and cleverness from infancy were great, especially in arithmetic and mathematics.
In quickness of apprehension and acuteness of discrimination I have not often seen his equal.
The very acuteness of the malady, he said, was its most hopeful sign.
Have they not quickness, brilliancy, sentiment, acuteness of observation, good sense, and even genius?
The Queen avoided a direct answer, but took the next point with unfailing acuteness.
The vivacity and acuteness of her outer life makes her just what I need.
Mademoiselle had a dread of the acuteness of vision with which her maid was endowed.
It is a code which displays much acuteness, good sense, and not a little oddity.
He exhibits great literary acuteness in the choice of his authorities and in sifting evidence.
Then the wine cup was condescended to the energy and acuteness of his captors.
They were as azure, he said, as the heavens, and had an unusual expression of acuteness.
The old life had been brought back to him with painful acuteness and vividness.
It must be added that he was probably endowed with very unusual acuteness of vision.
Worldly sharpness, acuteness, versatility, are not the qualities in request in the world to come.
It combines with lucidity and acuteness of judgment, freshness of fancy and elegance of sentiment.
All their senses were in a state of hallucination, conveying intolerable acuteness to their sensations.
It is not genius, it is not extraordinary subtlety, or acuteness of intellect, that is important.
Observations of this sort, which have a false air of acuteness and profundity, are repeated periodically.
Storms an astonishing acuteness, which enabled him often to detect the truth without difficulty.
The wild species is cool, and increases the acuteness of taste and cures ulcers.
Your aloofness, your indifference only spurs me, only adds to the acuteness of my desire.
She received this wholly as a tribute to her acuteness, and was therefore proportionately gracious.
Enough, however, will remain to entitle him to the credit of great ingenuity and acuteness.
All conclusions which we derive from visual acuteness become very inexact as soon as it is lowered.
A work of vast learning and acuteness, it is directed against the infidelity of the age.
We admire the acuteness of the critic who reveals the unsuspected excellence of our favorite writer.
And the old man patted her hand, soothingly, though nothing of his acuteness abated.
Already the acuteness of the blind was possessing him, sharpening the senses left unimpaired.
Nay, if he did not condemn Taylor's cows, he criticized his bulldog with cruel acuteness.
In that narrow and restricted retreat his senses soon became sharpened to an unusual degree of acuteness.
He had been struck with their acuteness, their subtlety, their tact, their felicity of judgment.
Clay's mind are quickness, penetration, and acuteness; a fertile invention, discriminating judgment, and good memory.
It is shy and timorous, wonderfully fleet, and with great acuteness of sight and smell.
But Mallet's acuteness readily perceived, that in much Edward's mind had been alienated from William.
He had a narrow, clean-shaven face, with features evenly distributed and an expression of placid acuteness.
Davies carried abstract reasoning into verse with an acuteness and felicity which have seldom been equalled.
His senses, particularly those of seeing and smelling, have acquired by practice an almost preternatural acuteness.
He has much also to say of his acuteness, and the unrivalled authority of his decrees.
Among recent English students, no one will refuse the palm of acuteness and originality to Tyler.
The Chinese note accurately the depth and acuteness of sound, its intervals and its intensity.
It is in the vividness of the sense of this presence that the acuteness of religion consists.
There is in some natures so great a hoard of generosity, that it often dulls their acuteness.
Nor was he unhurt by her superior acuteness and her display of authority on his grounds.
The great minds are bestowing upon sacred subjects an attention nowhere surpassed in vigor and acuteness.
Myth and dialectical acuteness, however skillfully blended, cannot add to our genuine knowledge of the world.
Amid the dangerous alternation of warm enthusiasm and cool acuteness, his soul had reached its maturity.