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]

Dogs have a remarkable acuteness of smell.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

He argued with great acuteness.    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

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

"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

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