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Example sentences for "keen sense"

  • At present, however, I suppose you to be sitting in judgment on those who are entirely destitute of the aids and the responsibilities of a keen sense of the beautiful: by nature or by education they know or have learned nothing of it.

  • You have a keen sense of justice as well as a warm glow of generosity; one will serve to temper the other.

  • Possessed of a lively imagination and a keen sense of humor, he is never at a loss for a source of fun.

  • Gifted with a keen sense of humor, she was quick to see the happy side of a life whose exterior is apparently one of misery; and it was this side which she determined to portray.

  • The artist's keen sense of humor is seen again in that most captivating little rogue, Puck.

  • They gave a keen sense of humor accompanied with much gray matter, and I consider them two of the most intelligent men on our stage to-day.

  • With a keen sense of humor and an unusual amount of funny stories at his command, his ability to lampoon you made an afternoon spent in his society somewhat trying.

  • The reproduction of the inscription which Hearne wrote on the back of his photograph shows that the old gentleman was not without a keen sense of humor.

  • There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf.

  • There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf (missing from book) 7.

  • The man had a keen sense of justice and fair play.

  • When they settled themselves in a Pullman state-room it was with a keen sense of satisfaction on his part.

  • When Jennie saw him in his dusty, baggy clothes, his hair gray, his eye brows shaggy, coming out of the dark door, a keen sense of the pathetic moved her again.

  • There was nerve and determination in him, as well as a keen sense of his awkward predicament.

  • He had wit, a keen sense of humor, a sense of pathos.

  • He had concluded by now, from watching various specimens, that sane men were honest, some inherently moral, some regulated by a keen sense of duty, and occasionally all of these virtues and others were bound up in one man.

  • Your father has a keen sense of duty," retorted her mother.

  • He began to think of men who could carry out his ideas brilliantly if they were not already on his staff, letterers, character artists, men with a keen sense of color combination whom he might possibly hire cheaply.

  • He has a keen sense of the ludicrous, notices funny stories and incidents, knows how to tell them, to improve upon them, and does not forget them.

  • He had a keen sense of humor, and most things that Mark Twain did, whether he approved or not, amused him.

  • Pilot Bixby woke up and laughed; he had a keen sense of humor, and the manner of the reply amused him.

  • He was a man of fine sensibilities and generous impulses; withal a keen sense of humor.

  • Leone, with a sudden paling of her beautiful face, with a keen sense of sharp pain, and Lady Chandos with a bright, happy flush.

  • There was an innate sense of power, a grand dramatic instinct, a keen sense of everything beautiful, noble and great.

  • Lord Chandos sat for some little time by his mother's side; he was enjoying an ice, and as he watched her he felt a sensation of pride in her beauty--a keen sense of regret that they should ever be parted.

  • In fact, one of the best ways to increase financial judgment is to form the intimate acquaintance of some one who has a keen sense of financial values.

  • There are vocations which require a keen sense of justice; others in which the presence or absence of a sense of justice is not essential.

  • He has a keen sense of right and wrong, but will take on the color of his surroundings.

  • This comes of writing under a keen sense of grievance; and how could this be truly said of one who was "at bottom an excellent fellow.

  • He is very ignorant, is not very keen about his religion, has no principles, except a habit of industry and a keen sense of property, and he has not one comfort or luxury of civilization, and not one political or national ambition.

  • And Berthe, with a Frenchwoman’s keen sense of the comic, laughed merrily at the ludicrous conceit.

  • The illustrations by himself afford evidence not only of great artistic power, but of a keen sense of humor.

  • When she at last made out that it was the American Minister, Mr. Phelps, who was speaking, she felt a keen sense of disappointment.

  • All her nervousness and anxiety had left her now, and in their place came a delicious feeling of happiness at Richard's presence, and a keen sense of adventure that made the blood tingle through her whole body.

  • She proceeded to enter into the spirit of the occasion with huge delight, questioning Mr. Brooks about his business in Brussels with a keen sense of mischief.

  • But there remained always a keen sense of new-found superiority, and it was in her voice when she spoke.

  • Bessie was flouncing up and down the room, and he was conscious of a keen sense of enjoyment as he heard the swish of her skirts and the light step between.

  • It shows how a raw recruit may become imbued with a keen sense of responsibility after spending a few months in the ranks.

  • Napoleon, who had a keen sense of the dramatic, knew very well that the plainer he dressed on such an occasion the more conspicuous he would be in a crowd of such magnificence.

  • This conduct can only be described as infamous, and goes to prove that a keen sense of morality was not a conspicuous trait of the Bonaparte family.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acre field; because thou; college graduate; coverts blackish; driven away; give utterance; hard labor; independent company; indigo blue; keen glance; keen interest; keen look; keen sense; know better; little bush; nine knots; political life; said resolution; somewhat later; space and; stewed fruit; that matter; understood nothing; vote and hold office; wanton destruction