If so, you'd be gallant and say I have just as much acumen as you have honesty.
It betrays more than ordinary deficiency of critical acumen in Shakespeare's commentators, that none of them, so far as we know, has ever thought of availing himself of his sonnets for tracing the circumstances of his life.
Calvin was of middle stature; his complexion was somewhat pallid and dark; his eyes, to the latest clear and lustrous, bespoke the acumen of his genius.
It puzzles even the acumen of a Frenchman; for it is still the great boast of the town of Olvera that they served up some donkeys as rations to a Buonapartist detachment.
But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme.
Stephen had cause to remember that observation, and the acumen it showed, long afterward.
To reach the depths, to touch the bottom, to get to the root of any true man's motives, sincerity and thoroughness are as essential as intellectual acumen and profundity.
That, combining with the commercial knowledge and experience he possessed and the political acumen he acquired, made him what he was.
He is at liberty to display his acumen or be absolutely blunt.
In Chile his scientific acumen had been baffled in the attempt to explain the invasion of the strange and dreadful disease hydrophobia.
In 1865 Pasteur was called upon to exercise his scientific acumen on behalf of the silk industry.
However, from the many examples of his scientific acumen I select one more.
They do not involve any want of the higher business acumen that goes to the proper conduct of affairs.
So it is in the mind of man with regard to his intellectual acumen and his religious creed.
To him who has the patience and industry, many mysteries are thus revealed, which no political sagacity or critical acumen could have divined.
He had also gone carefully through the Gospels, weighing them with all the acumen which he had brought to bear upon his Castilian chronicles.
This fact does not greatly redound to the acumen of the professor nor to the credit of his class-room methods, and what followed gives a curious notion of the easy-going system which then prevailed.
There was in him a natural acumen which for want of a better name we may call wisdom.
The degree to which he tempered the wind of self-criticism to his own poetical lambs is the more noteworthy on account of the acumen with which he commented as editor on the work of his fellow-poets.
It is unusual to find business acumenand enterprise combined with such a literary talent as yours.
In the once staid old Gleaner he used boldfaced headlines, touched with irritating acumen on scandal, assailed the ruling political triumvirate, and made the paper generally fascinating as well as disturbing.
In giving his judgment, he will examine as closely as he can into the system adopted by each inquirer, the amount of materials at his disposal, and, generally, the acumen which has been brought to the task.
The German is alive today and lives in Phoenix a wealthy man, simply because he had the foresight and acumen to do what I did not do--hang on to his real estate.
His business acumen is testified to by the fact that he is now sufficiently wealthy to count his pile in the seven figures.
Guillerague, showed his literary acumen and unfailing sagacity by deriving The Nights from India via Persia; and held that they had been reduced to their present shape by an Auteur Arabe inconnu.
And several intelligent newspapers enlarged upon the fact that an ordinary burglar had completely baffled and defeated the boasted acumen of Mr. Martin Hewitt, the well-known private detective.
Their famous killings have always been made among the silliest sort of women--the sort, in brief, who fall so short of the normal acumen of their sex that they are bemused by mere beauty in men.
Nay; the superior acumen and self-possession of women is not inherent in any peculiarity of their constitutions, and above all, not in any advantage of a purely physical character.
Biological Considerations So far as I can make out by experiments on laboratory animals and by such discreet vivisections as are possible under our laws, there is no biological necessity for the superior acumen and circumspection of women.
In the demimonde one will find enoughacumen and daring, and enough resilience in the face of special difficulties, to put the equipment of any exclusively male profession to shame.
Phillpotts, who conceals under his ample lawn an amount of intellectualacumen and power which are able and ready to grapple with the pamphlet of any schismatic in the diocese of Exeter, or the speech of any lord in the House of Peers.
I pay Kant a tribute of sincere admiration for the great acumen he displayed in carrying out this dexterous feat, but I continue in all seriousness my examination of his position according to the standard of truth.
If in the disclosures which Kant's wonderful acumen gave to the world there is anything true beyond the shadow of a doubt, this is to be found in the Transcendental Aesthetics, that is to say, in his doctrine of the ideality of Space and Time.
