By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.babylon.com/definition/acuteness/English]
He argued with great acuteness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Dogs have a remarkable acuteness of smell. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Her sense of touch has sensibly increased during the year, and has gained in acuteness and delicacy. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Life] Reference
Prudence -- but not the acuteness which is sometimes confused with prudence -- is incompatible with incontinence, which is least curable when the outcome of weakness. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy] Reference
"Does that acuteness also come to one in the jungle?". From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
It is well that this acuteness of feeling soon becomes blunted. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
The senses of the matron were strung to an almost painful acuteness. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
"Your bailiff seems to be a person of extraordinary acuteness," said. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
My spiritual senses gain their acuteness or obtuseness from my affections. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The inebriate first loses his vivacity and natural acuteness of perception. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
The people of Mizora, I perceived, possessed a remarkable acuteness of vision. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
"That was not spoken with M. de Crillon's usual acuteness," replied the baroness. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference
But, as usual, the acuteness of one sense is increased by the absence of another. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
My ears were strained so that I listened with an acuteness of tension which was painful. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
The chances for the recovery depend on the extent and the acuteness of the inflammation. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
Recipes prepared in this manner, are very helpful for diseases in all degrees of acuteness. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
He was fully dressed, but lacking his shoes, as she noted in the acuteness of her startled senses. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
And her deep attachment to the family was also a source of pain and suffering because of its acuteness. From Wordnik.com. [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference
Here little attention is given to artistic form; but the preternatural acuteness of the man is overpowering. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
"A man of my ordinary acuteness should have seen that the brat was the only unspoiled member of all the flock.". From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
His powers and influence are investigated and explained by M. de Remusat with acuteness and comprehensive survey. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
Hamilton's vigorous logic and speculative acuteness, would probably have found a narrower field for their display. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
He did not feel, or seem to feel, newspaper criticism with the acuteness of a sensitive nature trying to do right. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Besides his humour and acuteness, besides even his profundity, I find in him an exceptional power of individualizing. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Meeting him next day on a train, he asked him how he acquired his wonderful logical powers and such acuteness in analysis. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Wondering at the acuteness of this observation, Dennis responded by according to her the exact time of his brief residence. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
His mind, indexed by his face, seems to be a chaos of confusion; without acuteness, without dignity, and without good sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
She knows why she despises existence, and it comes from facing the acute dilemma with more acuteness than it could comprehend. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
To a mind of rare scientific acuteness and endowments, he added an active and fertile imagination, and great youthfulness of spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
The Southern people have all the acuteness of the Yankee, with a genuine bonhomie which brightens the most ordinary incidents of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
Muscular contractions, as induced by strong faradic currents, are to be dreaded in direct proportion to the acuteness of the inflammation. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
He also noted the acuteness of the senses during hypnosis, and that verbal suggestion would produce hallucinations, emotions, paralysis, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
The King and councillors had often reason to wonder at his acuteness in judgment in difficult cases, and, above all, at his perception of right and wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The renowned founder of the 'Credit Austro-Dalmate' was a small, thin man, with blue eyes of an acuteness almost insupportable, in a face of neutral color. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It was found that woman's facility of thought and native acuteness gave her an immense advantage over the masculine mind in mastering any ordinary course of study. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
His qualities, from his earliest years were quickness and acuteness, unchecked and insatiable curiosity, retentive memory, and busy reflection; his mind was never still. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference
The constant, mechanical drawing through of the needle, like the listening to a very dull address, seems to induce a kind of morbid intellectual acuteness, or nervousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
She was truly a high-type product of generations of fine living, and her blue blood did show from the first in the rapid development of keenness of mind and acuteness of feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
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