Acuteness

I may have been ever so much an exception in acuteness of observation, powers of comparison, and abnormal self-consciousness; none the less were my thoughts and conduct typical of the attitude of the intelligent immigrant child toward American institutions. ❋ Unknown (1912)

Her sense of touch has sensibly increased during the year, and has gained in acuteness and delicacy. ❋ Annie Sullivan (1905)

Anxiety, hope, and even fatigue itself, had imparted to his body the fictitious strength of fever, and to his intellect the unhealthy acuteness which is so often the result of intense mental effort. ❋ �mile Gaboriau (2003)

Prudence -- but not the acuteness which is sometimes confused with prudence -- is incompatible with incontinence, which is least curable when the outcome of weakness. ❋ Various (1909)

Agitated by these reflections, which put sleep at defiance, Esther continued at her post, listening with that sort of acuteness which is termed instinct in the animals a few degrees below her in the scale of intelligence, for any of those noises which might indicate the approach of footsteps. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

He shaved hairs from the back of his hand, glanced along the edge with microscopic acuteness, and found, or feigned that he found, always, a slight inequality in its edge somewhere. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was indeed but a passing trance, that only made me feel with renewed acuteness so soon as, the unnatural stimulus ceasing to operate, I had returned to my old habits. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even with a different artist, the work is fresh and interesting, maintaining an acuteness to detail and accuracy, while Wood does his work in telling a story that may well have happened at some time in the eleventh century. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bill Clinton, whose ethical sensitivities have no reputation for acuteness, gave up on Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, two excellently qualified choices for attorney general. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For nearly 40 years, the Bronx-born creator of such paradigmatic city-set films as "King of New York," "The Addiction," "Bad Lieutenant" and "Ms. 45" has hop-scotched from Manhattan to Hollywood to Europe in order to realize features, documentaries, episodic television shows and shorts that expose the obsessive heart of human nature and urban life with emotional acuteness and gritty cinematic savvy. ❋ Bruce Bennett (2011)

Chamber of Commerce: "The Americans, with their vast and almost incalculable resources, their acuteness and enterprise, and their huge population, which will probably be 100,000,000 in twenty years, together with the plan they have adopted for putting accumulated wealth into great cooperative syndicates or trusts for the purpose of carrying on this great commercial warfare, are the most formidable ... rivals to be feared." ❋ Unknown (2010)

But in writing about the acuteness of her grief, McElhone also pays tribute to the power of survival. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I tried to describe it to Ralph a day or so afterward, but it was hard to explain the acuteness and singularity of it. ❋ Kirsten Tranter (2010)

Sandra Dijkstra, my agent, perceived the richness of this story with her customary acuteness and helped drive it forward with her customary passion. ❋ Michael Hiltzik (2010)

Rapid transmission and acuteness are what give crowd diseases their terrible lethality. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[You’re] an acution [Becky] ❋ Acution420 (2019)

that [baby] is acuteable ❋ Jasmine Culver (2008)

I was watching all the really cute guys with smokin abs, but [one guy] sat [by me], and he was pushing his meh, he was [acute] ❋ Quinceflash (2020)

"I acutally have a bigger booty." "I acutally [won the game]." "[I lost] the acutally [that time]." ❋ JoolsrizzenS (2009)

"Not only did she have those [spectacular] [jugulars], she also had acute angina." ❋ Mo Dixley (2005)

[Man], she [must] have acute kameltosis. That she must. ❋ Ivan Barrister (2018)

E: I can't believe you fucked that [gymnast] P: [Ya bro], she was definitely an Acute Fuck E: Way to go [bru] ❋ Phil R-C (2010)

I'd [stay] away from that [weird guy], he's probably an [acute pedo]! ❋ Clubpenguinfun (2016)

Looks like Deliveraci has [acute afecalfalia], he has been [sitting on] [the pot] all day. ❋ Sym Dawnderson (2009)

[Gordon] suffers from Acute Faggotosis that causes him to have [fits] of homosympathetic symtoms. ❋ Rich549 (2018)