acuteness

Example Sentences

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A bout of weepy swooning, marveling at the acuteness of an aspartame-induced diet soda headache, was a bracing warning that even joy could be distractingly paralyzing.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022

Over the last few months of dedicated wild swimming in the Pacific and in the San Francisco Bay, I have noted both the otherworldliness and the acuteness of experience that Deakin so vividly depicted.

From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2020

Those confidentiality interests the executive seeks to shield from disclosure must be weighed against the acuteness of congressional need.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2019

Glacial and scary, the piece conjured the internal and external world in which we now live with far more acuteness than more overtly “political” compositions I’ve heard.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2018

It is impossible to express with what acuteness I felt the convict’s breathing, not only on the back of my head, but all along my spine.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens