Had they exercised half that acuteness on facts and experiments, they had been truly great men.
Physicians tell us that the nerves of the student acquire a morbid and diseased acuteness for want of those habits of action and physical exertion which more vulgar organizations practise.
Go and see her; your very awkwardness will imply a secret, and she 'll be so well pleased with her acuteness in discovering the mystery, she 'll half forget its offence.
Whose acuteness had he not exposed, whose rhetoric not made jest of?
You imagine it, I am aware, sir; but I have met with no such instances of acuteness amongst your co-professionals as would sustain the claim; but why are we wandering from the record?
His writings show no trace of originality, nor indeed any conspicuous philosophical acuteness or logical power.
One must see how far the other qualifications, accuracy, acuteness of observation, and judgment, are also brought into action.
Neither acuteness alone nor the judicial balance alone is enough to make the critic.
His acuteness soon found reasons for that course; the warmth of his emotions enforced the reasons.
Indeed, the gallant knight's language was far too courtly to be understood by persons of much greater acuteness than Mysie's.
It would appear, then, that Seward much underestimated the acuteness of Russell and Thouvenel, and expected them "to walk into a trap.
This had various causes, but among them is evident a quite childish fear of the acutenessand abilities of Mason and Slidell.
Elsie Venner and the Guardian Angel, the two novels of Holmes's, are full of the same briskness and acuteness of observation, the same effusiveness of humor and characteristic Americanism, as the Autocrat.
She is worth visiting, were it but to say you have seen a blind and paralytic old woman have so much acuteness of perception and dignity of manners.
This is indeed," said Ravenswood, "an acuteness of organ which I could not have credited had I not witnessed it.
He has turned back to a free use of the necessaries of life, and has recovered roundness of form, acuteness of sense, and beauty of complexion.
It can scarcely be intended to suggest that his acuteness led him to go off without paying for the cargo.
The annotator seems to combine all the acuteness of the needle with the straightforward bluntness of the railway buffer.
Meanwhile no rook e'er plucked his pigeons with more suavity, Or pocketed his winnings with more self-denying gravity, Or ever did express more acuteness of distress At the slightest hint of cheating, or any such depravity.
But he recovered ere Lady Montfort could be aware of the acuteness of the pang she inflicted, and accepted the generous offer with warm protestations of joy and gratitude.
And combining together many desultory remembrances of words escaped unawares from Lionel, from Lady Montfort, from Waife himself, the truth (of which her native acuteness had before admitted glimpses) grew almost clear to her.
Charles had unhappily long been in the habit of perverting his naturalacuteness to the mean subterfuges of equivocal language.
His chief talent was an acuteness in dispute; a talent not usually much exercised by kings, but which the strange events of his life called into action.
The breadth andacuteness of Nelson's intellect have been too much overlooked, in the admiration excited by his unusually grand moral endowments of resolution, dash, and fearlessness of responsibility.
At all events, the advocacy of it testifies to the acuteness and energy with which Nelson threw himself into the operations especially intrusted to him.
Accordingly, they derive relief and assistance from the quickness of their hearing, the acuteness of their smell, and the sensibility of their touch, which persons who see are apt to disregard.
He showed us the spot where this had occurred, and it was certainly an acuteness of sense far beyond anything I can conceive possible.
As we got near the place Signor Yoris said, "I will tell you a curious instance of Domenica's acuteness of hearing.
Do you mean that the position in which they are develops a kind of cunning rather than acuteness or cleverness?
Let not therefore a young lady be alarmed at the acuteness of her own wit, any more than at the abundance of her own knowledge.
Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.
As a theologian he may be ranked in respect of acuteness and profundity, speculative talent and Christian earnestness, as a second Augustine, and on the theological positions of that Father he based his own.
For in personal endowment, speculative power, rich and varied learning, acuteness and wealth of thought, originality and productivity of intellect, the Englishman was head and shoulders above the Bohemian.
At first the old man was very angry at the acuteness of Cho[u]zaémon.
Then the idea of countering on this acuteness made him good tempered.
From his diplomatic position at Vienna, Mr. Stiles had rare opportunities for observation, of which he has availed himself in a manner that is highly creditable to his acuteness and good sense.
Leonard had not expected to find so much practicalacuteness in a man who, however accomplished, usually seemed indifferent, dreamy, and abstracted to the ordinary things of life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acuteness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
